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- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
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- From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.214351.11295@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 21:43:51 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: What is Oracle?
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- In article <1992Dec23.161943.7494@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> tostan@dumbo.lerc.nasa.gov (Stan Mohler) writes:
- >What is Oracle? I know nothing about database programs.
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- It's a database program :-)
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- Short answer: Oracle is a corporation which develops and markets software
- to manage data. The central product is the database management software
- which allows multiple users to access/update data. Surrounding this
- database software are other products which provide input/output interfaces
- to the database other than Structured Query Language (SQL).
-
- ---Dale Cook
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