In the world of database architecture, the need to dynamically create complex objects conflicts with the demand for subsecond response time. Oracle's answer to this dilemma is the materialized view.

I believe the words “commodity system hardware” should describe something very simple. Being a commodity, system hardware should be easy to fit to a system design, source, assemble, configure, run, ...

Developers can use the ORDER SIBLINGS BY feature of Oracle 10g and later to sort the records in a hierarchy created by the START WITH and CONNECT BY clauses in a SELECT statement. Oracle’s START WITH ...