Customer Reviews

The Sql Guide to Oracle

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The book contains many examples, more then other SQL books that I have read. The book covers a lot of nested queries, sub-quries and co-related queries using EXISTS, ALL operators. It is a little out-dated but still serve my purpose which is to become proficient in SQL. I would buy a second edition if one exists for Oracle 7 or 8.

I have found this book the only useful book on using SQLPlus. In fact, it was the ONLY book on SQLPlus that I have found anywhere. It has exactly what I need. However, the book only covers Oracle 6.x, which is a bit outdated. Are there any plans for new editions of the title?

This book has proven to be extremely useful for learning as well as reference. The focus is on SQL, rather than Oracle. It is logically organized, clearly written and full of examples. The index could be more complete, but the overall layout of the book still makes it very easy to use.

This book does in fact cover the basics of SQL. However, the guide to Oracle part of the title is inaccurate. Only a small fraction of this book has anything particular to do with Oracle. For example, the entire section on PL/SQL is under thirty pages and the data dictionary rates only a couple of paragraphs. The index is woeful. Many subjects are covered in the book and not mentioned in the index which makes this a difficult volume to use as a reference. The best audience for this book would be students taking a high-school or undergraduate course in beginning SQL.

This is the third time I've bought this book. I have used it since I first found it over 10 years ago to teach new DBA's, programmers, and users the basics of SQL as well as advanced topics. While the SQL standard hasn't changed that much since the book was written, I do wish there was an updated version. By the way, in addition to the three copies I've purchased for myself (they end up disappearing), I've had every employer I've ever worked for buy copies. The material is clear and easy to learn and worth the money.

I had the original, generic SQL version of this book (now out-of-print) and gave it to another developer. I bought this SQL for Oracle edition to replace it.

When I first got this, I had NO idea how to write even the simplest SQL statement (well, maybe the easiest). But thanks to this book -- and only this book -- I'm a real whiz at it now and did all of my company's database programming for years. How many times can you learn an entire computer language with just ONE BOOK?!?

The author over-achieves something that most others fail at: he teaches all aspects of the language through sensible examples and straightforward explanations.

The book is an invaluable resource for beginners through to advanced developers. There is no fluff anywhere in the book...just very efficient examples and explanations. So if you are used to Dummies guides or 21-day guides, you might find this book a bit terse. But I still think it is a fantastic choice for beginners.

In all, I cannot recommend any computer book more highly than this one.

It is bit of old book but it is best for bingers who need jump start for SQL programming and do not care about new oracle features. It starts from very basics but then it takes you to pretty high level.