Oracle8 Pl/SQL Black Book [Paperback]

Mark Gokman (Author), Jonathan W. Ingram (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1998

Oracle professionals can use this book to quickly learn the features of the latest Oracle release. "Oracle8 PL/SQL Black Book" presents the formal syntax, usage, and actual examples for every declaration, command, and error handler. The CD-ROM features all the source code and examples from the book, plus a demo version of Oracle8 for Windows 95.

Product Details

• Paperback: 694 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576101894
• ISBN-13: 978-1576101896
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,195,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly reader friendly. Avoids (luckily) confusing jargons., August 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle8 Pl/SQL Black Book (Paperback)

This is the best book I have come across during my pursuing PL/SQL. Its style of gradually building up of the various concept makes it an intersting reading of an otherwise quite boaring subject. I wish to make a suggestion to enhance the value addition from the book. It would be a great help if the tables used in the examples are also provided with the book so that the reader can actually write the codes and see the results for himself rather than trying to visualise the outcome.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best PL/SQL Book on(off) the Market, January 7, 2002

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John McCarthy (Co. Cork Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle8 Pl/SQL Black Book (Paperback)

This book is very well structured and easy to learn from. The content is easy to read, good examples and very referenceable.

I highly recommend this book. The only issue is its availability, I find it hard to believe that the publishers have not cashed in on this book (did n't republish - currently out of print) as it is a real winner and a gem to have.

Listed below are the chapters.

1. PL/SQL At A Glance
2. Writing Simple Routines
3. Program Flow Control
4. Accessing the Database
5. Complex Datatypes
6. Creating Programs
7. Using Object Types
8. PL/SQL In Different Environments
9. PL/SQL And Application Performance
10. PL/SQL Fundamentals
11. Blocks, Stored Programs, Packages, Database Triggers And Stored Types
12. Declarations
13. Procedural Constructs
14. Built In Functions
15. Oracle 8 Supplied Packages
16. Extended SQL And PL/SQL Support
17. External File I/O And Background Job Control
18. Support of LOB Datatypes
19. Event Notification And Intersession Communication Support
20. Advanced Queuing Support
21. Miscellaneous Packages

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best PL/SQL book in town!, August 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle8 Pl/SQL Black Book (Paperback)

This book takes you through some really great examples and includes everything you need to know about PL/SQL. I use it as a reference all day long when writing my code.