Customer Reviews

Oracle Databases on the Web: Learn to Create Web Pages That Interface with Database Engines

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While most of the Oracle Web books focus on Java and other insignificant details, this was the only one that I found that had a simple, clear explaination of creating Web pages with Oracle.

To address a few points made in some of the reviews of 'Oracle Databases on the Web', I would like to first point out that this book was written PRIOR to most of Oracle's own written documentation on Oracle WebServer and prior to any online documentation. This book was the first released for Oracle WebServer and so was the pioneer on this subject. Consequently, the book was targeted for beginner to intermediate development using Oracle WebServer. It was reviewed by an Oracle VP who was thrilled with its content, which led to subsequent major orders for the book by Oracle's Business Partner Alliance. If any written Oracle documentation did exist at the time, it was at best scattered and incomplete. Many documented code examples and product features did not work and had to be refined as presented in the book. The publication has already sold out 2 printings and I continue to receive positive comments even though it is based on OWS 2. All-in-all, this book serves well as the introduction into this new technology.

It merely restates existing Oracle documentation. There are not enough practical examples; only the installation portion was of any value. It is written around OWS 2.0, not 3.0. I actually got more assistance from the 2 chapters OWS in "ORACLE How-To" by Edward Honour.

This is a clumsily written book that I found useful only for a little background information and as a reference for the htf/htp routines. When I run into a problem (e.g. when to use POST vs. GET in WebServer; or how to use the OWA utilities) there is a little information there but not enough. However, I haven't found a better reference yet.

I reviewed all of the Oracle Web books, and while there are no wonderful books, this was by far the best. I like the section of updating from a Web page the best. This book has paid for itself many times.

I was very disappointed! This book simply restates Oracle's documentation. Very little was included that was not in the written or on-line documentation and much less than the Oracle course on developing applications with Oracle PL/SQL.

This text has proven to be the best investment that I have made in Oracle books. I use it nearly every day as a reference book, and it has paid for itself many times in time savings. The part about creating interactive applications with Webserver was the most useful. I would give it a 10.

Because the Oracle documentation is so poor, I had an urgent need to locate useful information on WebServer. This book was far and away the best book that I found, and it has some useful information that allowed me to create WebServer applications very quickly. I especially enjoyed the section on creating interactive applications with WebServer. This book saved me hundreds of hours of work!

This book has a little of everything and not enough of anything. There is a little HTML, but the information is not really helpful. A lot of pages are wasted on screen shots of an installation, but there are no guidelines for setting all the configuration options. More than 100 pages are wasted reprinting Oracles own documentation of the web server packages, but again no value is added. There is even a chapter on tuning SQL, but again not enough information to be useful

Every time I have faced a question not solved by the documentation, this book has been unable to help.

This book is a disappointment!

The book reviews the documentations that could be found on the web with the oracle user's manual without further pursuing more details or explainations. However, it's helpfull if used as a quick reference for the language. Emad.