Professional Oracle Programming (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

by Rick Greenwald (Author), Robert Stackowiak (Author), Gary Dodge (Author), David Klein (Author), Ben Shapiro (Author), Christopher G. Chelliah (Author) "The core theoretical purpose of a relational database is to separate logical interaction with data within the database from the physicaI storage of that data..." (more)
Key Phrases: Enterprise Manager, Expression Filter, Object Relational Interactions (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review
“…a good book for an introduction to Oracle, but especially good if you are interested in the areas of Business Intelligence, HTML-DB, XML DB and Regular Expressions…” (OracleHome, 3 August 2005)

Product Description

• One of the only Oracle books to focus exclusively on database programming rather than administration
• Oracle owns sixty percent of the commercial database market
• Provides full coverage of the latest Oracle version, 10g-including new features such as regular expressions and the MODEL SQL clause-as well as versions 8, 8i, and 9i
• The authors are well-known as Oracle gurus-Greenwald is the author of Oracle in a Nutshell and the coauthor, with Stackowiak, of Oracle 9 Essentials
• Shows how to use Oracle data and data structures to build robust, scalable database applications using Java, SQL, and PL/SQL

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Product Details

• Paperback: 790 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (June 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764574825
• ISBN-13: 978-0764574825
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #153,909 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Professional Developer, June 15, 2005

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an intermediate level book. It is intended for the application developer who already has some knowledge of SQL (which implies some knowledge of what databases do) and of programming (particularly Java). For instance, the first chapter of this book is on the internal structure of Oracle. That's a long ways from the standard beginning of this is what a database does.

A thing this book is not for is the database administrator. There's very little on things like set-up, assigning users, security (there's a little on this); those kinds of administrative details. This book is, as I said at first, for developers.

The book does go heavily into programming techniques like triggers, regular expressions, object types, XML, defining your own functions -- things like that.

The authors all have extensive experience with Oracle, most of them work for or have worked for Oracle. As this series of books proclaims, this is a book written at the programmer to programmer level.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for the serious developer!, June 21, 2005

By	bjork fan (nj, usa) - See all my reviews

I have read all the books on Oracle and most seem pretty fluffy - lots of pages but the content is on a pretty basic level. This is the first book I have seen that really delves into the guts of Oracle - how it works, and how to program applications effectively for it. Just what I have been looking for!!!