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Oracle® Database Platform Guide
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit)

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Preface

This document describes the features of Oracle Database for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit) software installed on a computer with an Intel (x86), AMD64, or Intel EM64T processor and any of the following operating systems:

Note:

Windows Multilingual User Interface Pack is supported on Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003.

This Preface contains these topics:

Audience

This guide is intended for database administrators, network administrators, security specialists, and developers who use Oracle Database for Windows.

To use this document, you need:

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Database documentation set:

Many books in the documentation set use the sample schemas, which are installed by default when you select the Basic Installation option with an Oracle Database installation. Refer to Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information on how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.

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