Professional Oracle Programming (Programmer to Programmer)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 790 pages
• Published by: Wrox June 17, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764574825
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764574825
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.5 pounds

Product Review
“…a good book for an introduction to Oracle, but especially good if you are interested in the areas of Business Intelligence, HTML-DB, XML DB and Regular Expressions…” (OracleHome, 3 August 2005)

Book Description

• 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

Reader Reviews
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 users, security (there's a little on this); those kinds of administrative details. This book is, as I said at first, for developers. The book does go heavily into programming techniques like triggers, regular expressions, object types, XML, defining your own functions -- things like that. The authors all have extensive experience with Oracle, most of them work for or have worked for Oracle. As this series of books proclaims, this is a book written at the programmer to programmer level. Comment | | (Report this)