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querying tables. However, keep in mind that views are just stored select statements and can be used post-generation for the minor changes requested by the users, such as new reports or security changes to the application.

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Designer/2000 R 2.0 Features

Designer/2000 Release 2.0 provides a variety of new features. These features include:

Extended Server Generation:

Client Generation:

Design Editor:

Migration Paths to Designer/2000 R 2.0:

Application Upgrades:

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Coexistence of Release 1.x and Release 2.0:

Cautions:

Designer/2000 and Oracle8

The introduction of Oracle8 has taken the databases and the applications built on those
databases to a whole new level, both in the amount of data stored and the number of users supported. Designer/2000 provides a complete set of modeling and generation tools for the relational and object constructs of Oracle8.

Designer/2000 2.0 provides support for all the Oracle8 scalability features, including:

Designer/2000's schema modeler has been extended to use the scalability and object features of Oracle8 without compromising ease of use. It allows you to design database schema or load existing schema definitions into its repository. The server generator then translates the graphical representation into the appropriate SQL DDL to implement it. Designer/2000 uses unified modeling language (UML), an emerging open standard from the Object Management Group (OMG) to represent its type models.

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