An authorised guide to fully exploiting the object oriented capabilities of Oracle8 as well as covering the areas of database design system requirements such as changes to records, data entry errors and basic transaction history.
Part I: Foundations. Introduction. Database Basics. Why Use Object Modeling? Part II: Database Building Blocks. Classes and Entities. Naming Conventions. Domains of Datatypes. Value List Classes. Part III: Basic Modeling. Relationships: Association. Composition and Aggregation: Close Associations. Recursive Structures. Or and N-ary Relationships. Cyclical Structures. Methods. Generalization. Part IV: Time Related Modeling: Tracking History. Time-Related Modeling. Generic Modeling. Implementing Business Rules. Denormalization. Introduction to Object Database Designer (ODD). Appendice: A: Glossary.
