Summary

The Oracle product family is one of the most powerful and full-featured products available on today's market. Oracle is a highly advanced and complex tool that can provide your applications with tremendous speed and power. This chapter introduced you to the Oracle product family and reviewed the datatypes you will be using. In addition, we discussed common functions and features you will need in your web development efforts. However, this chapter is intended as an introduction and general roadmap to explore more of Oracle's considerable feature set. We encourage you to voraciously expand your knowledge and experience about this integral part of your web development environment.