Does anyone know when Oracle implemented ORDBMS?

I need some information about Oracle.
Is Oracle RDBMS or ORDBMS?
If anyone has a link to more information I would be grateful.

I'm making a quiz on my website. Ik would like to get the quistions and
answers from a database. I can use two kinds of databases, mysql and ingres.
Both of them are muli-user. Do you have any advise wich of these I can best
use and why?

I was writing the application written in the book :
using clipper book by W. Edward Tiley .
One function is not executed in program invoice.prg .
I will give you the whole syntax of the program . the function which

Please, please help me !!!!
I have a stored procedure that I need to modify.  The stored procedure
is used in an Access DB program where user selects a ProjectID and
views/or can email data for different Units.

Can someone please normalise the following data into 3NF??
Serial Number
ICT Name
Supplier Contact

Does anyone know of an SQL parser that I can use in java, or have an
efficient pseudo code version of a parser?  What i want to do is parse an
insert statement so that i can retrieve the columns to insert into as one
collection, and the values to insert into those columns as another

I'm creating a application that has to be cross-platform, cross-database. I
normally do MS SQL Server work and what I need to do in this case is have a
unique ID that's unique across databases, so I was going to use the idea of
a GUID, which SQL Server supports natively (unique ...

Hi Group,
Anyone please tell , we can store xml data directly in SQL2000 , and
we can reterive it as well.
Can we do the same in MySQL database....

I have recently purchased "The Complete Reference SQL" by Groff and
Weinberg - it seems good.
This may be a bit late to ask this question, but what are other people's
thoughts about it as a good reference book for SQL? Any other good (bad)

We are in the early stages of planning a migration of our Microsoft
SQL 7 backend to Oracle 9i/10i and I have been ask by upper management
for some solid numbers that I am having problems coming up with.
Our front end web app directly hits our database and most of the

so i have the hotel table:
Hotel(hotel_id{pk},name,#OfRooms,address,postcode)
i assume that it is always possible to work out the hotel name by the
hotel's address, so that means this table is not in 3rd normal form, right?

Which freeware database to choose under Windows platform?
I have small ERP with GIS elements which works fine on MSAccess but the
number of users will grow and I don't want just sit and wait.
I have in mind MySQL and Firebird. The application is written in Delphi

Hi all...
I work in user support and am trying to broaden my knowledge about
relational databases...
Our company here runs Oracle, and I was looking for a good general

It needs a mall footprints, search for read only database.  So no need
for multi user, transaction log, etc.  the performance should be
around 0.01 second when search and return result (e.g. return 100 +/-
records and iterate each of them with 0.01 second).