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The book describes the major components of Oracle such as SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, indexing, security and integrity, and distributed databases. Underlying principles are also described: there are chapters on the objectives of database systems and on the relational model. Its broad coverage also includes database design techniques such as normalisation and entity-relationship modelling. The Oracle application development tools: SQL*Forms version 3 and SQL*ReportWriter are covered, since these tools are still widely used in universities and in industry. In preparation for Oracle version 8, object oriented concepts and the object-relational model are described.