many-to-many relationships, 8
materialized views, and data design tuning, 254–255
media failures, 268
memory
allocation, 242
Oracle memory structures, 161, 162–165, 163
Oracle requirements, 171
tuning, 261–263, 261
MERGE statement, 34
Metalink Web site, 301
methods, defined, 10
Microsoft Access
basics of, 330
ODBC and, 23, 23
Microsoft SQL Server
basics of, 329
vs. Oracle database platforms, 328
Microsoft Windows, and running SQL*Plus, 15
MINUS set operator, 132–134
multiple-column subqueries, 125–126
multiple-row subqueries, 121–123
MySQL, 330