September 1999
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 5m
English
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Oracle’s Solution—Oracle8i
To steal a phrase from James Carville, consultant to Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, “It’s the data, stupid.” Large companies have realized for years that filesystems are unsuited for sophisticated data management, and have instead relied on relational database management systems (RDBMSs).
These databases have quietly provided scalable, secure, and manageable access to the most critical corporate information for over a decade. Companies understand how to plan for auditing, disaster recovery, capacity, maintenance, and application development. There are well-understood tools and proven techniques, and developers know how to build database systems. Given that content will be king for the new generation of web sites and applications, doesn’t it make sense to graft web server capabilities onto a database, rather than a filesystem?
Oracle has had over 20 years of experience designing information systems that manage the most important corporate data. As the largest database vendor in the world, they have (arguably) the world’s most sophisticated and powerful database. Over the past several years, Oracle has moved diligently to apply professional data management concepts like scalability, security, auditability, disaster planning, and so on to an unruly world of Internet content management. With Oracle8i, the “Internet database,” these plans have come to fruition.
Oracle8i is a soup-to-nuts platform for web site and web application development that ...
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