Preface

Oracle Streams Concepts and Administration describes the features and functionality of Streams. This document contains conceptual information about Streams, along with information about managing a Streams environment. In addition, this document contains detailed examples that configure a Streams capture and apply environment and a rule-based application.

This Preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle Streams Concepts and Administration is intended for database administrators who create and maintain Streams environments. These administrators perform one or more of the following tasks:

• Plan for a Streams environment

• Configure a Streams environment

• Administer a Streams environment

• Monitor a Streams environment

• Perform necessary troubleshooting activities

To use this document, you need to be familiar with relational database concepts, SQL, distributed database administration, Advanced Queuing concepts, PL/SQL, and the operating systems under which you run a Streams environment.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398. Outside the United States, call +1.407.458.2479.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Streams Replication Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database SQL Reference

• Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference

• Oracle Database PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference

• Oracle Database Utilities

• Oracle Database Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference

• Streams online help for the Streams tool in Oracle Enterprise Manager

Many of the examples in this book use the sample schemas of the sample database, which is installed by default when you install Oracle Database. Refer to Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information on how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.

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Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: