Oracle9i 远远超过其在功能、可伸缩性和可管理性方面的核心要求，它代表了第一个真正的商务智能平台。现今的许多数据仓库都使用关系型数据库，主要用于管理数据、进行基本查询。这些操作是数据仓库的基础，但Oracle9i拓宽了数据仓库中关系型数据库的领域，因此 Oracle9i 对数据仓库中所有的数据操作都是可伸缩的数据引擎，而不仅仅限于载入和基本的查询操作。Oracle9i 在以下三方面提供了新的服务器功能：分析能力、ETL（提取、转换、加载）和数据挖掘。

该-Oracle9i far more than its functionality, scalability and manageability in terms of the core requirements, it represents the first true business intelligence platform. Many of today' s data warehouse relational database is used primarily for the management of data, basic queries. These operations are the basis of the data warehouse, but broadens the Oracle9i data warehouse relational database in the field, so Oracle9i data warehouse all data operations are scalable data engine, not just loading and basic query operations . Oracle9i provides the following three new server functions: analytical ability, ETL (extract, transform, load) and data mining. That