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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Options

Oracle provides a number of options that can be purchased with Oracle Enterprise Edition. As with the packaging in general, the content, price, and availability of these options are subject to change.

At the time of this writing (with Oracle9i Release 2), the following options are available:

Real Application Clusters

Allows the use of a clustered database spread over multiple servers

Partitioning

Allows data to be spread over multiple disks to improve performance

OLAP

Includes a set of analytical functions that can be used for Online Analytical Processing

Data Mining

Includes a set of data mining functionality for creating business intelligence applications

Spatial

Enables the use of features and the manipulation of data for spatial information, such as that used in geographic information systems (GIS)

Advanced Security

Provides the ability to use strong authentication and encryption

Label Security

Provides the ability to define fine-grained security for data

In addition to these options, Oracle supports a series of expansion, or add-on, packs that can be used to extend the functionality of Enterprise Manager. These packs are described in Chapter 16.

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