Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7575 EAN: 9780072261943 ISBN: 0072261943 Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: September 12, 2005 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Sales Rank: 279823 Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Product DescriptionExperienced PL/SQL programmers and Oracle developers will learn to master Oracle's procedural extension to industry-standard SQL. Using this authoritative resource, readers will become experts at developing robust, high-performance enterprise applications with PL/SQL. Detailed examples describe the practical aspect of each feature, and provide ideas to the reader of how they can best exploit the functionality.
What Others Say
Not what I needed
As a professional PL/SQL developer, I try to keep abreast of the latest and greatest techniques for accomplishing what my clients need done. Expert Oracle PL/SQL (Osborne Oracle Press Series) did not provide me with much I could use. Most of it is the kind of obscure bit-twiddling that Object Oriented gurus seem to revel in. If you are a Java or C fan that wants to beat the procedural/relational PL/SQL language to fit into your OO world, you may like Expert Oracle PL/SQL (Osborne Oracle Press Series) better than I did. There was some good info about tuning, but I would not buy the book for that alone.
Beyond the Basics
Note the word Expert in the title of Expert Oracle PL/SQL (Osborne Oracle Press Series). This is not where you would turn to learn how to write a simple SELECT statement. Expert Oracle PL/SQL (Osborne Oracle Press Series) presumes that you have a basic fundamental knowledge of how Oracle and SQL work together. The emphasis here is on the lessor used features, the newest additions to 10g Release 2, in short the information beyond what the basic programmer knowledge that helps to define the expert.
In addition to the standard programming tips, Expert Oracle PL/SQL (Osborne Oracle Press Series) goes beyond the basics to look at what the database itself is doing. With more knowledge here, you can better understand what the database itself is doing when it is working on your SQL statements.
Although virtually all databases now use SQL as their ... Read More
