Oracle Database 10g SQL (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Overview
In this chapter, you will
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Learn about relational databases.
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Be introduced to the Structured Query Language (SQL), which is used to access a database.
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Use SQL*Plus, Oracle s interactive text-based tool for running SQL statements.
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Briefly see PL/SQL, Oracle s procedural programming language built around SQL. PL/SQL allows you to develop programs that are stored in the database.
Let s plunge in and consider what a relational database is.