Oracle® Database
Database Concepts
19c
E96138-01
January 2019
Oracle Database Database Concepts, 19c
E96138-01
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Primary Authors: Lance Ashdown, Tom Kyte, Joe McCormack
Contributors: Drew Adams, Ashish Agrawal, Troy Anthony, Vikas Arora, Jagan Athraya, David Austin, Thomas Baby, Vladimir Barriere, Hermann Baer, Srinagesh Battula, Nigel Bayliss, Tammy Bednar, Virginia Beecher, Bjorn Bolltoft, Ashmita Bose, David Brower, Larry Carpenter, Lakshminaray Chidambaran, Deba Chatterjee, Shasank Chavan, Tim Chien, Gregg Christman, Bernard Clouse, Maria Colgan, Carol Colrain, Nelson Corcoran, Michael Coulter, Jonathan Creighton, Judith D'Addieco, Mark Dilman, Kurt Engeleiter, Bjørn Engsig, Marcus Fallon, Steve Fogel, Jonathan Giloni, Naveen Gopal, Bill Habeck , Min-Hank Ho, Lijie Heng, Bill Hodak, Yong Hu, Pat Huey, Praveen Kumar Tupati Jaganath, Sanket Jain, Prakash Jashnani, Caroline Johnston, Shantanu Joshi, Jesse Kamp, Vikram Kapoor, Feroz Khan, Jonathan Klein, Andre Kruglikov, Sachin Kulkarni, Surinder Kumar, Paul Lane, Adam Lee, Allison Lee, Jaebock Lee, Sue Lee, Teck Hua Lee, Yunrui Li , Ilya Listvinski, Bryn Llewellyn, Rich Long, Barb Lundhild, Neil Macnaughton, Vineet Marwah, Susan Mavris, Bob McGuirk, Joseph Meeks, Mughees Minhas, Sheila Moore, Valarie Moore, Gopal Mulagund, Charles Murray, Kevin Neel, Sue Pelski, Raymond Pfau, Gregory Pongracz, Vivek Raja, Ashish Ray, Bert Rich, Kathy Rich, Andy Rivenes, Scott Rotondo, Vivian Schupmann, Venkat Senaptai, Shrikanth Shankar, Prashanth Shanthaveerappa, Cathy Shea, Susan Shepard, Kam Shergill, Mike Skarpelos, Sachin Sonawane, James Spiller, Suresh Sridharan, Jim Stenoish, Janet Stern, Rich Strohm, Roy Swonger, Kamal Tbeileh, Juan Tellez, Ravi Thammaiah, Lawrence To, Tomohiro Ueda, Randy Urbano, Badhri Varanasi, Nick Wagner, Steve Wertheimer, Patrick Wheeler, Doug Williams, James Williams, Andrew Witkowski, Daniel Wong, Hailing Yu
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