User`s guide

Preface

This manual and Oracle Database User's Guide for Fujitsu BS2000/OSD, form a

system-specific set of manuals that provide installation, maintenance, and usage

information about Oracle Database and related products. This manual provides

information for those responsible for installing and administering Oracle Database for

BS2000/OSD and describes:

■ How Oracle Database operates under BS2000/OSD

■ How to install or upgrade Oracle Database

■ How to create an Oracle Database

Oracle Database User's Guide for Fujitsu BS2000/OSD provides information for

BS2000/OSD end-users of Oracle products. Certain topics are applicable both to users

and database administrators.

This section contains the following topics:

■ Audience

■ Using Oracle Database Documentation

■ Documentation Accessibility

■ Related Documents

■ Conventions Used in this Manual

Audience

This manual is written for people who are responsible for installing and maintaining

Oracle Database, and for assuring its smooth operation. These people are usually

system programmers who may have Database Administrator (DBA) responsibilities.

The reader is assumed to have a fundamental knowledge of BS2000/OSD. No attempt

is made to document features of BS2000/OSD, except as they affect or are affected by

Oracle Database.

Using Oracle Database Documentation

Oracle Database products that run under BS2000/OSD are identical, in the way in

which they are supported, to Oracle Database products that run under any other

operating system. However, because of the diversity of operating systems, the use of

applications may differ slightly between different operating systems. As a result of

this, Oracle provides two types of documentation: