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What Is the Oracle8i Enterprise Edition?

Oracle8i Enterprise Edition is an object relational database that is scalable and easily manageable. The administration of the basic enterprise edition is discussed in this course. However, the following options provide additional functionality:

• Partitioning: Provides facilities for implementing large, scalable applications. (It enables control over tables and indexes at a lower level of granularity than is possible with the basic enterprise edition.)
• Oracle Parallel Server: Improves the scalability and availability of a database by allowing multiple copies of the Oracle software to access a single database.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Packs: Built on top of the Oracle Enterprise Manager. Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostics, Tuning, and Change Management Packs are add-ons that provide DBAs with a set of tools for advanced diagnostics, monitoring, tuning, and change management of Oracle environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager also provides a DBA Management Pack that enables DBAs to do basic administration, such as creating users, starting up an instance, granting privileges, and so on.
• Oracle JServer: Enables users to define a variety of application programming models, including Java stored procedures and triggers, Java methods of object relational types, CORBA objects, Enterprise JavaBeans, Java servlets, and Java Server Pages. It also supports a variety of standards-based protocols such as Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), in addition to Net8.
• Advanced security: Provides client-server, server-server network security, using encryption and data integrity checking, and supports enhanced user authentication services, using third-party security services.