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Oracle8 How-To: The Definitive Oracle8 Problem-Solver

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Liked the book since it covered all the topics in a planned manner..by starting to explain what the topic is..explaining the topic by providing scripts..and then concluding with how!

This is an excellent resouce, a book that finally offers the specific information you need to bone up on Oracle. With numerous, well-explained examples, this book is an invaluable resource. While most computer books offer only vague generalities, and an annoying lack of real help on specific questions, this book gets right to the heart of the matter. This book is like a breath of fresh air in a market overcrowded with second-rate books.

The Oracle8 How-To is a book which succinctly details the elements of Oracle pragramming. Not since J. B. Guthries' Oracle6.0-- The Next Step has programming in this langauge been justly treated. The authors have given excellent examples that cover everything from command-line macros to programming for networked environments. Also, an overview of the new features of Oracle8 will assist even the most jaded programmer. Never have I enjoyed reading a guide to programming as much. I think it is easy to see the influence of the fresh ideas of the new authors.

I found this book extremely useful . I am still a beginner in Oracle and PL/SQL and I have found this book of great help in cases where your boss tells you : I want so and so for tomorrow morning and you don't have a clue of how to do it and you can't swallow an entire Oracle encyclopedia in one day (or night) . You 'll find the answer in the book quickly and easily . For example I was asked to make benchmark tests to compare the speed of SQL Plus and other oracle native tools with ODBC based tools when retrieving data and I didn't know how to measure the elapsed execution time using PL/SQL. Well , I just had to look at the index and see time-related entries , and look at the corresponding pages and I saw how to do it . However ,I can't really judge whether this book will be useful to experienced oracle programmers or not because I am still a beginner .

This book is great for people who already know Oracle but just need to know the syntax for common DBA/developer operations. It is organized in such a way that from the table of contents you can quickly find what you need versus spending hours in the Oracle documentation.

I noticed a few comments about the proofreading (or lack of). I didn't have to look far to find errors. There are a lot of screen shots that are misplaced. All of the comments regarding this book being focused on NT are true. This book doesn't pretend to be for the UNIX crowd. For those of us who have to know both, this book has its place. I haven't found any blatent technical misstatements, but I haven't gone too far either. In short, this would have been a four-and-a-half star book if they had spent an extra hour making sure the scrrenshots matched the captions.

This book explains in detail how to tackle a problem with lots of examples and ready pl/sql scripts.

Its a must for devlopers and DBA's

I was extremely disappointed to find the book ridden with errors. Most particulary, the code samples and figures do not correspond to the copy at all. I had to search through several other sections to find the code that corresponded to "How-To" 1.5 (I found it in 1.14)! I guess the publisher was in such a hurry to get the title out that the proofreading step was bypassed.

Excellent book with comprehensive coverage of the material and very well written especially are the PL/SQL related chapters. A must reference for solving real-life problems while working on an Oracle project. The chapter on Web Application Server covers details not covered by entire books on the topic. The material and examples are to the point as compared to a lot of other books that beat around the bush.

This book is a nice deskside companion, it is best used as a quick reference. It wil not teach you Oracle, but it will let you know how to do, what you want, and fast.