Chapter 3. Concepts

If you're already familiar with the concepts and terminology associated with Oracle and RDBMS and SQL, then feel free to skip this chapter. For the rest of us, I'll try to be as brief and clear as possible while covering what I consider to be the basic information that you will need to make sense out of the remainder of this book.

I will cover the following five topics: databases, the Oracle Server environment, SQL programming languages, development tools, and the Web. Each topic builds on the previous one, and you need this basic understanding to successfully build your guerrilla database over the next few chapters.

To start, here's a quick review of some of the fundamental concepts for relational databases.