HISTORY OF ORACLE BY SANTHOSH G

HISTORY Oracle was founded in August 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, Ed Oates and Bruce Scott, Oracle was initially named after "Project Oracle" a project for one of their clients, the C.I.A, and the company that developed Oracle was dubbed "Systems Development Labs", or SDL. Although they may not have realized it at the time, these four men would change the history of database management forever.

Oracle 2 The first commercial version of RDBMS in 1977, it wasn't available for sale until 1979 with the launch of Oracle version 2 The current company name comes from a CIA project that Larry Ellison had previously worked on code named “Oracle”.

Oracle 3 Oracle 3 The Oracle version 3 was developed in This version was assembled using C programming language and could run in mainframes, minicomputers, and PCs – or any hardware with a C compiler. It supported the execution of SQL statements and transactions

Oracle 4 Oracle 4 The oracle release 4 developed in 1984 Which made it much faster than earlier versions Which based on the queries and support the database Store the large data compare than previous versions.

Oracle 5 Oracle 5 It was developed in 1985 Oracle addressed the increasing use of the internet in business computing. Oracle version 5.1 was launched in 1986 and allowed for supporting distributed queries. Later that same year Oracle released SQL*Plus

Oracle 6 Oracle 6 The PL/SQL language came with Oracle version 6 in This version provided a host of new features including the support of OLTP high-speed systems. Oracle Parallel Server was introduced in Oracle version 6.2 and was used with DEC VAX Cluster.

Oracle 7 Oracle was a memorable year for Oracle. The company announced Oracle version 7, which was the culmination of four years of hard work and two years of customer testing before release to market. Oracle7 Release 7.1 introduced some good new capabilities for database administrators, such as parallel recovery and read-only tablespaces.

Oracle 8 & 8i Oracle 8 & 8i The Oracle 8 Database was launched in 1997 and was designed to work with Oracle's network computer (NC). This version supported Java, HTML and OLTP. Oracle 8i :Just one year later Oracle released Oracle 8i which was the first database to support Web technologies such as Java and HTTP. In 2000 Oracle 8i Parallel Server was working with Linux which eliminated costly downtime.

Oracle 9i Oracle 9i The Oracle 9i Database was launched in It supporting native XML was also a new feature of Oracle 9i and this was the first relational database to have these characteristics. Oracle 9i came with a special technology named table compression that reduced the size of tables by 3 to 10 times and increased the performance when accessing those tables.

Oracle 10G Oracle 10G Oracle launched version 10g in The release of 10g brought us the introduction to Grid Computing technology. 10g was also the first Oracle version to support 64-bit on Linux. With Oracle Database 10g and Real Application Cluster it was now possible. With the introduction of the 10g Express Edition in 2005

Oracle 11G Oracle 11G The latest version of Oracle Database is 11g which was released on July 11 th This version introduced more features than any other in Oracle history. It supports case sensitive passwords. Today Oracle has more than 320,000 customers and is present in 145 countries making it one of the elite companies in its field.

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