Foreword
I spend the bulk of my time working with Oracle database software and, more to the point, with people who use this software. Over the last 18 years, I’ve worked on many projects—successful ones as well as complete failures—and if I were to encapsulate my experiences into a few broad statements, they would be
An application built around the database—dependent on the database—will succeed or fail based on how it uses the database. Additionally, in my experience, all applications are built around databases. I cannot think of a single useful application that does not store data persistently somewhere.
Applications come, applications go. The data, however, lives forever. In the long term, the goal is not about building applications; it really ...
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