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Part I

Oracle Relational Data Structures

This part provides a general introduction to Oracle Database, and then describes the basic data structures of a database, including data integrity rules, and the structures that store metadata.

This part contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, "Introduction to Oracle Database"

• Chapter 2, "Tables and Table Clusters"

• Chapter 3, "Indexes and Index-Organized Tables"

• Chapter 4, "Partitions, Views, and Other Schema Objects"

• Chapter 5, "Data Integrity"

• Chapter 6, "Data Dictionary and Dynamic Performance Views"