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Before You Begin This Course
Before you begin this course, you should be able to use a graphical user interface (GUI).
Required prerequisites are familiarity with data processing concepts and techniques.
How This Course Is Organized
Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL is an instructor-led course featuring lectures and hands-on
exercises. Online demonstrations and written practice sessions reinforce the concepts and
skills introduced.
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Related Publications
Oracle Publications
Title Part Number
Oracle9i Reference, Release 1 (9.0.1) A90190-02
Oracle9i SQL Reference, Release 1 (9.0.1) A90125-01
Oracle9i Concepts, Release 1 (9.0.0) A88856-02
Oracle9i Server Application Developer’s Guide Fundamentals
Release 1 (9.0.1) A88876-02
iSQL*Plus User’s Guide and Reference, Release 9.0.0 A88826-01
SQL*Plus User’s Guide and Reference, Release 9.0.1 A88827-02
Additional Publications
• System release bulletins
• Installation and user’s guides
• read.me files
• International Oracle User’s Group (IOUG) articles
• Oracle Magazine
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Typographic Conventions
What follows are two lists of typographical conventions used specifically within text or within
code.
Typographic Conventions Within Text
Convention Object or Term Example
Uppercase Commands, Use the SELECT command to view
functions, information stored in the LAST_NAME
column names, column of the EMPLOYEES table.
table names,
PL/SQL objects,
schemas
Lowercase, Filenames, where: role is the name of the role
italic syntax variables, to be created.
usernames,
passwords
Initial cap Trigger and Assign a When-Validate-Item trigger to
button names the ORD block.
Choose Cancel.
Italic Books, names of For more information on the subject see
courses and Oracle Server SQL Language Reference
manuals, and Manual
emphasized
words or phrases Do not save changes to the database.
Quotation marks Lesson module This subject is covered in Lesson 3,
titles referenced “Working with Objects.”
within a course
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Typographic Conventions (continued)
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