Oracle is world's leading database vendor and there is a reason for it Oracle is very good at listening to its customers and constantly keeps on innovating Oracle strives to provide world-class database software along with world-class customer support you can estimate the speed at which Oracle Corporation is moving forward by looking at these top 5 biggest acquisitions still now and trust me guys with the way Oracle is moving forward I think it has to be the market leader the first acquisition I mean that's not exactly the first one these are only the biggest acquisition so I
am talking about the top 5 biggest acquisitions Oracle had till now the first one was PeopleSoft ten point three billion dollar acquisition in 2005 it's a SAS platform for human resource finance supply chain and customer relationship management Siebel systems it was acquired for five point eight five billion dollars in 2006 it's a customer relationship management application next was B EA Systems it was acquired for around eight point five billion dollars in 2008 application development and middleware software platform next micros Systems it was acquired for five point three billion in 2014 it's a retail and hospitality
hardware software systems and the last one it was NetSuite and it was acquired for nine point three billion in 2016 it's again a SAS platform for enterprise resource planning ERP now guys the acquisition list of Oracle is pretty big and I could only consolidate the biggest PI biggest acquisitions till now so these are just the biggest acquisition still now and there are so many small companies which Oracle has acquired over the years and I believe every year Oracle at least acquires three or four companies today Oracle basically provides a big catalog of products and services
but Oracle database still remains the flagship product now you might ask me like what exactly is a flagship product let's take you have your own shop and in your shop you're selling some products but there is one product which is evergreen like there is no particular season and there is no particular time but that one single product will always sail so that product you can call it as a flagship product that means it has high sales irrespective of the season and there is no demand and supply kind of curve it is an evergreen product you
will always have sales for the particular product for example like french fries in McDonald's it's it's kind of a flagship product I think it's a very worst example but still and so kind of like a product that sells more so the same way with Oracle Oracle has a lot of products but still Oracle database remains the flagship product it is like hotcake in their catalog now in simple terms a flagship product is the best or the most important thing owned or produced by a particular organization now once again Oracle database still remains the best product
produced by Oracle Corporation even after acquiring so many companies so once again this gives one more reason why you should become an Oracle DBA now that we know more about Oracle Corporation its acquisitions and flagship product let us understand what is a database and what it does like I gave this example earlier uber is an application to book cab YouTube is an online website to watch and search free videos the same way database is an application which stores massive amount of data like several terabytes size in a structured or unstructured format it uses structured query
language SQL to store and retrieve retrieve data from the database for anyone who is very new to database or understanding database for the first time let me help you with an example think that library is like a database all the books are stored in cupboards with labels on each rack these labels help us find books faster and we can call this as a structured storage consider the librarian working at the library as SQL you go to library and ask for the book the librarian knows where the book is kept and gets you the requested book
from the rack the same way Oracle database stores the data in a structured format that is tables and we use SQL to read or write data into the database an Oracle database can store data ranging from 4 GB to multi terabyte data size awesome so now you know about Oracle Corporation its flagship product and what is Oracle database now let us understand what database can do our database is used to store and handle data such as customer details for business or medical records sales data stock items in one application and many more so database content
is very easy to manage information can be accessed and updated quickly and very efficiently our database can store and handle vast amounts of data a user can sort and search a database to find any requested data
