Customer Reviews

Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference

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This pocket reference version has been a real time saver! I really appreciated the concise, clear explanations and examples. Since my co-workers are always walking off with it, I'm having to buy another copy for myself.

After 7 years solid experience within the ORACLE toolset I find that books like this not only teach us a few new things but are also great revision guides giving new thought to commands, formats,functions etc not used or thought of for some time.

In my opinion, even though a small book, it was well worth the money and one that all Oracle users of whatever standard will appreciate. I suggest any purchser write their name in it.

...a good combination of size, price, and content. I have the 3rd edition, which includes an 8-page index. I use this as part of teaching a class in Oracle Developer and recommend it for my students. As the other reviewers recommend, write your name in it...the Oreilly pocket references are easy to misplace, and walk off sometimes. There are four blank pages at the end for your own notes. Content is adequate for its purpose -- for extensive details, the Oracle online documentation is available, if slower to access.

Drawbacks? I'd like a larger index, although the current one is useful. A little bit more room throughout the book for notes might be handy, although it would enlarge the book a bit. I think the content is about right, although there will always be things one can't find, and other topics which are never used in this type of book.

And, as with all the Oreilly pocket references I've seen, there is no colophon, so one must go to the original large book to discover that the insect on the front cover is a moving leaf, Phyllium giganteum, a Malaysian creature which grows to about four inches in length...roughly the width of the book!

I use this guide on a weekly basis. It is small compact and concise and doesn't have near everything a bigger book has, but it covers the basics and is quite easy to use. I highly recommend it for anyone using SQL+

For developers pretty new to SQL*Plus or PL/SQL, this is a good book. For this group I would rate it 5 stars.

My issue with this book is that the book is more like an intro-level text rather than a true reference, almost half the book is devoted to intro to SQL and PL/SQL concepts like update/insert/select/delete. I was expecting more of a "Power User" reference on how to use all the functions of SQL*Plus. Like most Oracle database products, there is so much breadth and depth of functionality if you only know the secret incantation. I was hoping that this would get into the more esoteric features available in the product.

It is a huge help now that indexes are included in O'Reilly's pocket reference series.

I had no problem getting the book...

Got it withing 3 days of my order...

And the book is excellent... maybe that's why I bought it...

For those SQL*Plus keywords it contains, it's good. Very easy to use and helpful. What I'd really like to see is a more comprehensive reference that covers general SQL statements in SQL*Plus, without all the references to the other "flavors" of SQL out there (those weren't in this book, by the way). Exactly the same level of references found in the book now, but much more comprehensive, so I only need the one source for quick 'n' dirty query help. There were many SQL keywords and functions not found either here, or in The Complete SQL (not so complete, after all), making it difficult to move forward without looking elsewhere, like online using the search engine Copernicus.