Provides a methodology for using Oracle to develop maintainable systems. Part I covers management and implementation issues, and Part II walks through the transformation from business-oriented to systems- oriented models. Part III delves into issues of developing in the database environment and explores Oracles's GUI tools, with a view towards development of serious operational systems. Part IV discusses data warehousing, distributed systems, and the Web. For information officers, managers, analysts, developers, and end users. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.