One of the only Oracle books to focus exclusively on database programming rather than administration
Oracle owns sixty percent of the commercial database market
Provides full coverage of the latest Oracle version, 10g-including new features such as regular expressions and the MODEL SQL clause-as well as versions 8, 8i, and 9i
The authors are well-known as Oracle gurus-Greenwald is the author of Oracle in a Nutshell and the coauthor, with Stackowiak, of Oracle 9 Essentials
Shows how to use Oracle data and data structures to build robust, scalable database applications using Java, SQL, and PL/SQL
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Excellent book for the serious developer!
I have read all the books on Oracle and most seem pretty fluffy - lots of pages but the content is on a pretty basic level. This is the first book I have seen that really delves into the guts of Oracle - how it works, and how to program applications effectively for it. Just what I have been looking for!!!
Rating: - For the Professional Developer
This is an intermediate level book. It is intended for the application developer who already has some knowledge of SQL (which implies some knowledge of what databases do) and of programming (particularly Java). For instance, the first chapter of this book is on the internal structure of Oracle. That's a long ways from the standard beginning of this is what a database does.
A thing this book is not for is the database administrator. There's very little on things like set-up, assigning ... Read More
