Oracle Server Manager User's Guide

Conventions Used in This Guide

The following sections explain the conventions used in this guide.

Syntax Diagrams

The syntax diagrams in this guide show the complete syntax for the Server Manager commands. Syntax diagrams are composed of these items:

Keywords Keywords are words that have special meanings. In the syntax diagrams in this guide, keywords appear in uppercase. When you specify them, they can be in uppercase or lowercase, but they must be used exactly as they appear in the syntax diagram.

Parameters Parameters act as place holders in syntax diagrams. They appear in lowercase. Parameters are usually names of schema objects, Oracle datatypes, or expressions. When you see a parameter in a syntax diagram, you should substitute an object or expression of the appropriate type. Note that parameter names appear in italics in the text of this guide.

Graphic Components Syntax diagrams use lines and arrows to show syntactic structure. The following list shows combinations of lines and arrows and their meanings within railroad diagrams:

Examples

This guide also contains examples. This is an example of a SELECT statement:

SELECT * FROM emp

Note that the text of examples appears in a different font than the text of the guide.

Examples in this guide follow these case conventions:

Keywords, such as CREATE and NUMBER, appear in uppercase.

Names of database objects and their parts, such as emp and empno, appear in lowercase.

However, in the text of this guide, names of database objects and their parts appear in uppercase.

Illustrations

Included throughout this guide are illustrations of various Server Manager windows, dialog boxes, and alert boxes. The illustrations show Server Manager Version 2.1.3 running on Microsoft Windows NT.

Special Icons

Special icons are provided to alert you to particular information within the body of this guide and within other manuals.

Additional Information: Operating System-Specific Documentation Where necessary, this guide refers you to your operating system-specific Oracle documentation for additional information.

Attention: The attention icon highlights information that is important to remember when performing the described task.

Suggestion: The suggestion icon signifies suggestions and practical hints that can be helpful when using Server Manager.

Warning: The warning icon indicates information that you should be aware of before you perform the action described in the current section.