Database Design Concepts
Relational Databases
The Relational Model
Relational Operations
The Database Design Process
Normalization
Second and Third Normal Forms
Other Normal Forms
Applications for Relational Databases
SQL Subqueries
Overview Of Subqueries
Inline Views
Correlated Subqueries
EXISTS Clause vs. IN Clause
Group Comparisons: ANY and ALL
Scalar Subquery Expression
Subqueries and DML Statements
Subquery Factoring: The WITH Clause
Top-N and Bottom-N analysis
CREATE TABLE and Subqueries
Hierarchical Queries
Hierarchical Data
Hierarchical Terminology
Hierarchical Query
Hierarchical Pseudocolumns
SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH
Processing Hierarchical Queries
Object Types
Object-Oriented Programming
Oracle's Object Relational Model
Creating Object Types
Querying Object Types
DML with Object Types
Object Methods
Object Views
VARRAYs
Nested Tables
Times, Dates, and Strings
Datetime Fields
Dates and Timestamps
Intervals
Date and Interval Literals
Date Arithmetic
Date Functions
Character Types
Session and Database Parameters
REGEXP Functions
Regular Expressions Supported by REGEXP
Applying REGEXP Functions
Temporary Tables
Undo and Redo
Temporary Tables Defined
Data Lifetime — Transaction vs. Session
Creating Temporary Tables
Managing Temporary Tables
Storage of Temporary Tables
Effects of DML and TRUNCATE
SQL Tuning Tools
Automated Statistics Gathering
The DBMS_STATS Package
SQL Tuning Advisor
SQL Tuning Sets
SQL Access Advisor
Retrieving Execution Plans
EXPLAIN PLAN
Using DBMS_XPLAN
Interpreting Explain Plan Results
SQL Trace
TKPROF
SQL Tuning
Tuning Goals
The Optimizer
Optimizer Statistics
Identifying SQL to Tune
Optimizer Hints
Optimizer Goal Hints
Access Path Hints
Join Hints
Additional Hints
Plan Stability
Creating Stored Outlines
Indexes
Indexes
B-tree and Composite Indexes
Reverse Key and Unique Indexes
Function-Based Indexes
Bitmap Indexes
Index-Organized Tables
Managing Indexes
Oracle Analytic Functions
Analytic Functions
OVER, PARTITION BY, and ORDER BY
Windowing
ROLLUP
CUBE
Grouping Sets
RANK
Modeling
Model Clauses
Data Warehouse Features
Partitioned Tables
Partitioning Methods
Partition Pruning and Partition-wise Joins
Bitmap Indexes
Materialized Views
Creating Materialized Views
Refreshing Materialized Views
The MERGE Statement
Multi-table INSERT Statements
Parallel Statements
Formatting Reports with SQL*Plus
Page Formatting
Computations
SQL*Plus Options for Formatting
Saving the Output
Data Extraction with SQL*Plus