Oracle provides many tools for designing, developing, managing, and securing a distributed database system. Aimed at both DBAs and developers, including: Benefits and sacrifices of systemsHow distributed database to install and configure distributed systems How to use the Oracle network products, SQL * Net and Net8, to processingHow distributed database of classic design concepts include distributed systems and in particular consideration to systemsHow OracleSecurity distributed to configure and manage a distributed Oracle database features (read-only snapshots, multi-master replication, updateable photo, procedural replication, and conflict resolution) This book covers both Oracle8 and Oracle7 syntax, including a complete API reference for Oracle's built-in package distributed systems (DBMS_REPACT, DBMS_SNAPSHOT), and comes with a diskette containing the wealth of help and utility scripts.