Conventions Used in This Book

The following conventions are used in this book:

Italic

Used for the names of files, scripts, latches, statistics, and wait events; also used for emphasis and for new terms

Constant width

Used for examples and literals

UPPERCASE

Used for Oracle SQL keywords, initialization parameters, and the names of tables, views, columns, packages, and procedures

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