Foreword
I first met the Oracle RDBMS some time in 1988, or possibly 1987, when my manager dumped a small box on my desk and said something like: "There's this new product called Oracle just coming into the country. Play around with it for a few weeks and then tell us what it's good for."
The version was something like 5.0.22, and in those days it was a lot easier getting started with Oracle. The entire printed manual set—including Forms 2.0, SQL*Report, and everything else—would fit into a small briefcase and the documentation for the create table statement ran to about three pages.
If you check the PDF file for the 11.2 SQL reference manual, you'll find that create table currently starts at page 16-6 and runs on to page 16-79 for a total of 74 ...
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