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The author's specifications for each of the fourteen chapter are: \textit{Introducing Oracle} -- briefly describes the range of Oracle product; \textit{Oracle8 Architecture} -- describes the core concepts and structures; \textit{Installing and Running Oracle8} -- how to install the software and how to configure, start up and shut down the database; \textit{Data Structures} -- summarizes the various types of datatypes supported by Oracle and introduces the Oracle objects; \textit{Managing Oracle8} -- provides an overview of issues involved in managing an Oracle system, using the Oracle Enterprise Manager product; \textit{Oracle8 Performance} -- describes the main issues relevant to Oracle performance, and pays special attention to parallelism in Oracle; \textit{Multiuser Concurreny} -- describes the basic principles of multiuser concurrency and explains how Oracle handles concurrency; \textit{Oracle8 and Transaction Processing} -- describes online transaction processing in Oracle; \textit{Oracle8 and Data Warehousing} -- describes basic principles of data warehouses and data marts, and how you can use Oracle to build such systems; \textit{Oracle8 and Hardware Architecture} -- describes how to choice of various types of architectures affects Oracle processing; \textit{Distributed Databases and Distributed Data} -- briefly summarizes the Oracle facilities used in distributed processing; \textit{Oracle8/8i Extensions} -- discusses how Oracle8 and Oracle8i provide object-oriented extensions to Oracle datatypes and to the overall processing framework; \textit{Oracle8i and the Web} -- describes how Oracle is now being used as an Internet computing platform and introduces various web-related tools, such as Oracle Application Server, WebDB and Java. For each chapter, the Appendix lists a variety of additional resources -- both online and offline.