Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Michael W. Stowe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1998

Oracle no longer ships hard-copy documentation with Developer/2000. For database professionals, this systematic, real-world guide is the best replacement available. Don't just learn what can be done with Oracle Developer/2000: learn what should be done, and the best ways to accomplish it. Walk step by step through the entire Developer/2000 toolset, including forms, reports, graphics, data modeling and design tools, and much more. Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook includes coverage of critical topics often neglected in discussions of Oracle Developer/2000, including SQL tuning and GUI standards. The CD-ROM contains extensive sample code, plus CBT Systems' Developer/2000 Training Module worth $225!

Editorial Reviews

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Oracle Developer/2000 is a well-known tool for serious corporate development, but it doesn't come with much printed documentation. Michael Stowe's Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook provides a solid working introduction to programming in Oracle, along with some excellent real-world expertise.

Early sections explore the strengths of the Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) on the back end, including stored procedures and triggers. The author describes how Oracle database servers can work with Web servers to deliver Developer/2000 applications in today's browsers (with certain limitations) through Java applets. He tours the basics of the Oracle Form Builder, from basic component types to PL/SQL, the language used to write code behind forms.

The guide continues with information on the Report Builder, which offers extensive support for the banding and grouping of data. (These reports can be delivered either in HTML or in Portable Document Format (PDF) from a Web server). This section follows up with data on Oracle Graphics, a graphics creation tool with extensive support for charting.

After a quick tour of several of the other Oracle Developer/2000 tools (such as Procedure, Project, and Query Builders), Stowe looks at designing database tables and data normalization. He offers some additional advice on coding conventions for PL/SQL and on how to design more effective user interfaces.

Later he demonstrates how to build a contact database front end using Oracle Forms, a nice hands-on exercise. (Walkthroughs are also provided for designing reports and graphical charts.) The book concludes with some guiding principles for Oracle project management. Appendices on the built-in functions that are available in a variety of Developer/2000 tools round up this book. --Richard Dragan

From the Back Cover

Supercharge your Web and client/server applications with Developer/2000 V. 2.1!

Oracle's Developer/2000 Version 2.1 is an outstanding tool for Web and client/server development - but Oracle ships it with practically no hard copy documentation! To make the most of this supercharged development environment, get Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook, Second Edition. This comprehensive tutorial and reference delivers step-by-step instructions for every Developer/2000 component - including forms, reports, graphics, data modeling and design tools. You'll learn the best ways to use each tool, and discover practical solutions for the key challenges of Web and client/server development.

Coverage includes:

• Oracle's Web architecture, including back-end databases and middle-tier Web servers.
• Tuning applications for optimal performance.
• Building GUIs that maximize productivity.
• Practical SQL and PL/SQL coding techniques.
• Pitfalls and traps - and how to avoid them.

If you want great results with your next Oracle Developer/2000 application, one book brings together all the real-world techniques and insight you need: Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook, Second Edition.

CD-ROM INCLUDED!

The accompanying CD-ROM contains extensive Oracle Developer/2000 sample code, plus a CBT Systems Developer/2000 Training Module worth $225!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 330 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0139181113
• ISBN-13: 978-0139181115
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,407,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick and dirty summary information, March 25, 1999

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Eric L. Yen (Covia, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

This book gives you enough to be dangerous. Not enough real world examples and information is at a high summary level. Great book for FYI of what Developer is and what it can do . . . If you need to be able to develope don't bother buying it.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An Oracle Developer Overview. Not Technical, December 4, 1999

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Richard Palacios - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

This book is only useful for IT managers or those who only want a high level overview of Developer. Needs more practical code examples.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Witty and insightful!!!, February 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

Gawd it's nice to read a technical book that doesn't assume you have to be shown every screen and button click. It gives the straight dope on NCA, Forms 5.0 and Reports 3.0. Loved the anecdotes!