ABOUT THE CD

How to Use the Oracle9i: The Complete Reference CD-ROM

The CD that accompanies this book contains a special electronic Adobe Acrobat pdf-format edition of Oracle9i: The Complete Reference. With this electronic version, you can easily transport all of the valuable information contained in the book on your PC while the printed version of the book remains in your office or home.

NOTE: To view the electronic edition of the book and other documentation on this CD, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader program. If you do not already have it pre-installed on your system, you may locate and launch rp505enu.exe from your CD to install.

Viewing and Navigating the Book
You can easily view and navigate specific areas of interest within the book using the hyperlinked Table of Contents provided.

Viewing
1. Insert the CD-ROM into the CD drive of your computer (if you have not already done so).
2. Locate and launch the file Book.pdf from your CD drive. This displays the book's Table of Contents at left of screen and actual book pages at right.

Navigating
1. To view a chapter, click the triangle to the left of the Part in which the chapter resides. This displays all chapters in the selected Part.
2. Click the name of the chapter you want to view (displays first page of chapter at right).
3. To view a section within a chapter, click the triangle to the left of the chapter name (displays sections of chapter below chapter name), and click the name of the section you want to view.

Searching
1. Choose the Search | Query option from the Edit menu.
2. In the Adobe Acrobat Search dialog box, click Indexes.
3. In the Index Selection dialog box, make sure the box next to "Oracle9i: The Complete Reference" is checked. Click Add.
4. In the Add Index dialog box, highlight "Index for Oracle9i: The Complete Reference.pdx." Click Open.
5. In the Index Selection dialog box, click OK.
6. In the Adobe Acrobat Search dialog box, type in the text for which you want to search.
7. Click Search (initiates the search).
8. In the Search Results dialog box, click the View button. This takes you to the first instance of found text matching the search criteria. Alternatively, you can double-click each occurrence of found text in the Results field to be taken to a specific match.

Using the Code
The tables used in this book are available for you to access and use without retyping! You can use these to easily work your way through the examples and experiment with the many techniques illustrated in this book. Simply locate and open Tables.txt. You can freely select, copy, and paste the desired text from this file. 

Bonus Content Found on the CD-ROM
In addition to the great convenience and flexibility offered by the fully searchable electronic version of the book and the tables from the book, we are happy to offer you added value in the form of an Oracle9i Release 2 Information & Documentation Kit and a Special Offer from Oracle University.

Information & Documentation Kit
In the Information & Documentation folder, you will find the following White Paper and documentation for Oracle9i Release 2 in pdf-format reproduced with the permission of Oracle Corporation:
- Oracle9i Database Release 2 New Features, An Oracle White Paper
- Oracle9i SQL Reference Release 2
- SQL*Plus User's Guide and Reference Release 9.2
- Oracle9i Database Utilities Release 2 (9.2)
- Oracle9i XML API Reference - XDK and Oracle XML DB Release 2
- Oracle9i XML Database Developer's Guide - Oracle XML DB Release 2
- Oracle9i XML Developer's Kits Guide - XDK Release 2

SPECIAL OFFER from Oracle University
Learn Oracle from Oracle and keep your career on track with this special offer for a 90-day Oracle University Professional Subscription, a 100-percent online learning offering that enables you to take self-paced, instructor-led courses on a variety of advanced Oracle technology topics, all at your convenience, 24x7. For details, go to the Special Offer folder and click on opress.htm.

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