Building Intelligent Databases with Oracle PL/SQL (Bk/CD) (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

by Kevin T. Owens (Author)

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Product Description
This second edition is a completely revised and expanded version of a bestselling title. A bible for designing and developing Oracle database applications, this book focuses on designing business rules into the database.

From the Publisher
This book shows how to develop commercial applications with Oracle, with a special emphasis on triggers and stored procedures. It covers declarative versus procedural methods of ensuring database integrity, strategies for integrating procedural methods with existing declarative methods. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137943148
• ISBN-13: 978-0137943142
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,776,588 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for serious developers, September 13, 1999

By A Customer

A book like this is essential for real world projects. The author knows exactly what he is talking about and it is easy to tell he has been a developer because he addresses the issues that usually come up during the development phase of a project. Also, the examples illustrate the concepts very clearly and it hardly matters whether you are using UNIX or NT.

This book is way ahead of the other Oracle books I have seen. The reason I didn't give 5 stars is because this book doesn't cover the new Oracle8 features.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good book but there are too many errors, November 4, 1999

By A Customer

I think this is a good book because it contains an introduction to the most important features of relational database and then it treat all aspects of PL/SQL, but I would like to know immediately how to debug Oracle PL/SQL programs without reading 210 pages. Next to that I found many type errors in the book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference (For procedures, functions, triggers), July 28, 1999

By A Customer

This is one of a number of publications I acquired when tasked with converting an existing Sybase SQL Server 11 system to Oracle. The current system relied heavily on stored procedures\functions with a fair amount of triggers. The fact that this book was laid out as well as it is made my job alot easier.