Oracle Database: Difference between revisions

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In 1983, RSI was renamed [[Oracle Corporation]] to more closely align itself with its flagship product. Oracle version 3 was released which had been re-written in the C Programming Language and supported commit and rollback transaction functionalities. Platform support was extended to UNIX with this version, which until then had run on Digital VAX/VMS systems.

In 1984, Oracle version 4 was released which supporedsupported read consistency.

Starting 1985, Oracle began supporting the Client-Server model, with networks becoming available in the mid 80s. Oracle version 5.0 supported distributed querying.

In 1988, Oracle entered the products market and developed its [[EPREnterprise resource planning | ERP]] product - [[Oracle Financials]] based on the Oracle Relational Database. Oracle version 6 was released with support for [[PL SQL | PL/SQL]], row-level locking and hot backups.

In 1992, Oracle version 7 was released with support for integrity constraints, stored procedures and triggers.

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In 1997, Oracle version 8 was released with support for object-oriented development and multimedia applications.

In 1999, Oracle 8i was released which is more in tune with the needs of the [[Internet]] (The ''i'' in the name stands for "Internet"). The database has a native Java Virtual Machine.

In 2001, Oracle 9i was released with 400 new features including the facilty to read and write [[XML]] documents.

In 2003, Oracle 10g was released. The ''g'' stands for "Grid"; one of the sales points of 10g is that it's "grid computing ready".

==Version numbering conventions==