This book describes comprehensive and fundamental aspects of object-oriented data modeling and implementation in Oracle. It covers the implementation of structural aspects of an object model, including object types, collection types, object referencing, nested tables, and inheritance structures, as well as the behavioral aspects including encapsulated member procedures and functions. Object-Oriented Oracle discusses the complete cycle of database design using object-oriented concepts, implementation of object-relational Oracle, and data manipulations using member procedures/functions and object-relational queries.
Object-Oriented Oracle contains a wealth of information, such as case studies in every chapter, as well as exercises at the end of each chapter, which helps readers to absorb the topics better; all reasons this book is a necessary collection addition for academics, researchers, educators, and IT professionals everywhere.
Johanna Wenny Rahayu is currently an associate professor at the department of computer science and computer engineering La Trobe University, Australia. Her major research is in the area of object-relational databases, web databases and semantic web. She has published more than 70 papers appeared in international journals and conference proceedings. She has edited three books, which form a series in web applications, covering web databases, web information systems and web semantics. Currently, she is involved in a number of large projects in software development in collaboration with several industry partners in Australia.
David Taniar received a PhD degree in databases from Victoria University, Australia, in 1997. He is now a senior lecturer at Monash University, Australia. He has published more than 100 research articles and edited a number of books in the web technology series. He is in the editorial board of a number of international journals, including Data Warehousing and Mining, Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Mobile Information Systems, Mobile Multimedia, Web Information Systems, and Web and Grid Services. He has been elected as a fellow of the Institute for Management of Information Systems (UK).
Eric Pardede received his Master of Information Technology at La Trobe University, Australia, in 2002. At the same university, he is currently a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Wenny Rahayu and Dr. David Taniar. He has been working as a research and teaching assistant at Monash University and La Trobe University. He has published several research articles appeared in international journals and conference proceedings. His research area is in data modelling and query optimization for object-relational databases and XML databases.
