ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a few very powerful Oracle8i features. Oracle8i is packed with new features and enhancements to the existing, but not fully developed, features introduced in Oracle8. If you are a veteran database administrator who transitioned from Oracle version 6 to Oracle 7.0 and then to 7.1, you will quickly see a trend in feature and functionality introductions. Oracle 7.0 was dramatically different from version 6, but 7.1 really brought Oracle into a new level of relational database management systems (RDBMS). This chapter does not attempt to address new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) support in Oracle8i.
