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Oracle Programming: A Primer, Version 7.0

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1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is one of the shortest and perhaps the best book on Oracle programming. In just 250 pages, the author covers every major aspect of Oracle programming techniques. Do yourself a favor and get this valuable book.

I have read many Oracle Programming books. This one is certainly the best for beginners. It's concise, practical, well written, no-frills. It is very different from other books that are full of junks. The author made every page count (I fully agree with one of the reviewers).

One suggestion to the author: please write more books on Oracle.

I have not seen any other book, which has so many sample databases to work with. The author gives many examples to help understand the concepts of SQL.Truly, a great book for programming and many tips for writing queries and JDBC concepts explained very well.Great coverage of PL/SQL.

I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn oracle programming.

This book is certainly aimed at the novice in Oracle, but to follow at the speed this book goes, it is definitely not aimed at programming novices.

This book starts in Chapter 1 by providing an overview of relational database technology. For the person who received formal education in databases this chapter will bore. For those not introduced to database theory the chapter contains the essentials. It also provides a nice link for people coming from a more mathematical sciences background. It moves quickly from a tabular view of databases to a formal relational algebra view. Personally I like this approach as the use of SQL (even for what would be considered advanced queries) is eased when looking at the relational concepts behind the problem - the SQL is reduced to a syntactical issue. The formal notations are, however, never really used again. The reader is expected to make the link between SQL and relational algebra himself. This is an easy task if you have a slightly more formal background, but it may also just lead to a bit of confusion if you don't have the formal background.

This book furthermore assumes a programming background. If you don't have a decent background of programming this book will quickly loose you. It moves fast. I would thus gladly recommend the book for a programmer who just wants to brush up on Oracle and how it can be used. After reading the book and mastering the concepts there would, however, not be much use for it as a reference.

In short, if you doubt your ability to follow programming texts that goes fast this book is not for you...

This book provides examples and offer suggestions for practical work that could keep the really studious busy for quite some time.

I give it 4 stars purely critising the speed at which it blasts off. In all fairness though, for some that might make it a five star book.

The size of most books on oracle may overwhelm any beginner. This book is has only about 250 pages, and the author makes every one of them count. In short, a good introductory book on oracle. A little about the oracle toolset (SQL*Forms, SQL*Reportwriter...etc) would have made it better.

Very well done, the examples are sophisticated and lead to instant use, books by oracle press are fyi and may be good for bed time reading, but if you are programmer with a job you need to all the available help from good books like these to jumpstart ADT, PL/SQL tables. What most programmers need is a template/prototype code and that is what most of the books lack, which where the Doc succeeds. So if one is serious about Oracle this is a must have although it is intended for intermediate to advanced audience. For the newbies, once you get some traction in Oracle buy this book as it will take you to the next level

Dr. Sunderraman explains all subjects very well for beginners and even someone with more experience. Gives numerous working examples which is a plus to any book. Gets to the point in a short amount of pages. I recommend it for any beginner in database systems.

Why? That is because it helped me practise in real world orcale programming. I understand 95% percent of what the author is talking about. The book is easy to understand. Like one of the reviewers said, every page of this book counts. This is a book you can read from cover to cover. I disagree with the reviewer who said JDBC should be left out.
I think the author just wanted to show how to connect java with orcale. JDBC is a huge area. How can it be covered in such a tiny book? It is just like the author leads you to the right path of oracle with java. And then users can get deep into JDBC with oracle using some other books. How could the author leave JDBC out of this book since JDBC is a very easy way to get connected with Oracle. And also java is a very hot language and getting stronger and stronger as time goes on. I'D GIVE IT SIX STARS IF I COULD.

The book was perfect for me. First chapter connected my knowledge in linear algebra with database operations. And I immediately understood common database programming perfomance issues. Examples are great, chapters are consise and cover lots of material, there are even exercises there! It is one of the books that you read from the beginning to the end to learn subject. I am not sure it would be good as a reference (definitely not for me).

The book was perfect for me. First chapter connected my knowledge in linear algebra with database operations. And I immediately understood common database programming perfomance issues. Examples are great, chapters are consise and cover lots of material, there are even exercises there! It is one of the books that you read from the beginning to the end to learn subject. I am not sure it would be good as a reference (definitely not for me).