what Is Oracle?

I always wonder when some people as me 'what is oracle?' not necessarily these people are from It field, but oracle is definitely not an UFO for all of us.

Besides having dictionary meaning ' a shrine where an oracular god is consulted' and 'an authoritative person who divines the future' oracle holds lot of meaning associated with it. For us oracle is a RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). Oracle is an information company. Oracle provides database solutions. rather, explaining it in simple words, 'oracle is a database which holds all your data, tables and if you want images too'.

Oracle database is #1 database with many features. Larry Ellison and his friends started Software Development Laboratories (SDL) in 1977 and rename their company as oracle, based on their CIA-funded project having code name 'Oracle'.

Oracle is a database system which holds your data as you want. like an organization may use it to save their employee information, Id's, salary and lots more information. A vendor may use it for storing information about his dealers.

Like any other excel sheet oracle uses tables and columns to store data, and unlike any other sheet it allows you to see only a particular row about particular thing like employee, dealer etc.,

Oracle database use SQL as its manipulation language. you can edit, insert, update and modify your data with this command language.

For large scale operations oracle is considered as most scalable, consistent and firm database than any other database in market.

this is what we called very basic about oracle, we can discuss here, as name of this blog is basic oracle. in upcoming post we see how oracle database works, its architecture and its component.