Customer Reviews

Building Oracle Websites

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...and you will learn how to make Oracle-based web sites from this book, as long as you do it on WinNT and as long as you do it the one way the author explains, which is through proprietary executables. Anyone looking for CGI access via PERL or other "open" languages will be better served with other books. I'm sure it's fine for beginners, but if you're implementing Oracle on any other platform that NT, this book will be of no use.

This is a GREAT book! I was asked by my boss to figure out what it would take to place our inventory database on the Web for our suppliers to access. This book not only showed me a number of ways to do that, but gave me some great tips. This is NOT a book to buy if you want to learn how to do Oracle programming. It clearly states it though in the front matter. But, if you already know how to access an Oracle database and want to learn how to couple an Oracle database with a Web application, then this is a "must buy" book.

I have read (too) many technical books, but this is one that I found to be very valuable. The author does an excellent job of describing in enough detail to make sense to me how to build a Web application in a number of diferent ways using an Oracle back-end. Although it was "light" on Oracle-specific code examples, I didn't buy this book to learn how to code in Oracle. I bought it to learn how to build a Web application that required access to an Oracle database. I'm keeping this book locked up in my office because I don't want it to grow feet.

I was hoping some of the reviewers were wrong. At least I was hoping to get some useful samples to connect web/HTML to Oracle database. I am wrong! The whole book is repeating and repeating some concepts/subjects about HTML, database and etc. They maybe good for presentations (managers), not for real people doing the work. When I "finally" read the key chapter 14, Accessing Oracle databases using CGI programs on page 301, I was hoping "this is the chapter" that I was looking for. I was totally disappointed. No explanation of how the cgi programs "query.exe (and others)" connect the HTML to Oracle. Anyway, if you are just getting into web/database business, this book may give you good concepts of it. However, this book is already outdated! I am sorry to buy this book. Hoping people not repeating my mistake.

2 comments, 1 question. 1)Most of the book examines, in detail, issues that are, at best, peripherally related to building Oracle-based web sites. I learned more about visual basic than I did about PL/SQL. 2) There is a large amount of repetition in the book. The author gives a great deal of attention to why I would want to generate a database or Oracle-driven website but barely touches on how. Most people that would buy a book like this already have the desire to database-enable their website - what they need is the nuts and bolts necessary to assemble it. 3) How can you write a book about developing Oracle database-enabled websites and include NO CODE???

This book LIGHTLY touches on different methods of accessing databases, and mildly covers Oracle. It never even mentions Oracle new tools for Web related developement (a glaring omission in my opinion, it's what I was really hoping for given this books misleading title), it just covers generic methods for accessing databases from the web. It takes 300 pages to get to some usable code(!), and even then it's a pretty lame choice of technological solution as to how the access is done. A coulple of chapters are spent blathering on a about Oracle's SQL Administator (Why? of what use is this for this book?). Also covered is a basic primer on Oracle SQL that is also unneeded. I had high hopes for this book and was VERY disappointed. I would NOT reccomend this book to anyone.

This book was very useful in deciding on many aspects of web development with an Oracle. The author explained the application development tool and CGI scripting selection process, the make-up of a development team, HTML and other pertinent topics very well. I feel very comfortable with the project I have to tackle.

This book fulfilled on its promise of showing me how to either take an existing Oracle database and integrate it with a Web application, or build a new Oracle database along with a Web application. Although it assumes a basic understanding of Oracle programming and dba topics, I found the coverage of Web-related issues very thorough and well written. Since there is no single best way to build a Web database application, this book does a very good job of introducing the various ways to do this with alot of illustrations. The other review of this book, in my opinion, misses the mark. I thought that I received more value from this book than what I spent to buy it.

I went into this knowing nothing, but being a pretty quick study, didn't think that beginner level books were a good idea. It gave a good, thorough, beginners take on Oracle, SQL, and some other peice of cryptic software I had never heard of. Overviewed a lot of things with integration, but never seemed to finish the job. Often wondered whether the book was about Oracle Web Sites or this obscure CGI editor he keeps referring to.

I am not an Oracle database expert or a Web guru nor do I want to be. But, I do want to use some simple queries to load and update the database from my web-site. I found that this book was very informative in doing just that. It guided me in plain and simple terms on how to do just what I needed to do.