Preface

Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager describes Oracle Workspace Manager, often referred to as Workspace Manager, which lets applications create workspaces and group different versions of table row values in different workspaces.

This preface contains these topics:

Audience

Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager is intended for application designers and developers. It is assumed that you have some experience programming in PL/SQL.

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Organization

This document contains the following:

Chapter 1, "Introduction"

Explains workspace management concepts.

Chapter 2, "Procedures: Reference"

Provides reference information about the Workspace Manager application programming interface.

Chapter 3, "Metadata Views"

Describes metadata views created and maintained by Workspace Manager.

Appendix A, "Installing Workspace Manager with Custom Databases"

Describes how to install Workspace Manager with Oracle databases other than the seed database and databases created using the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA). (Workspace Manager is installed by default in the seed database and databases using DBCA.)

Appendix B, "Migrating to Another Workspace Manager Release"

Describes how to migrate (upgrade or downgrade) from one Workspace Manager release to another, if you have version-enabled tables with data that you want to preserve from one release to the other.

Appendix D, "Error Messages"

Lists the error messages for Workspace Manager, with the cause and suggested user action for each error.

Glossary

Defines important terms specific to Workspace Manager

Related Documentation

For more information about using this product in a development environment, see the following documents:

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