Part I

Oracle Relational Data Structures

This part describes the basic data structures of an Oracle database, including data integrity rules, and the structures that store metadata.

This part contains the following chapters:

• 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"