Teach Yourself Pl/SQL in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Tom Luers (Author), Timothy Atwood (Author), Jonathan Gennick (Author)

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Product Description
Sams Teach Yourself PL/SQL in 21 Days is the ultimate hands-on guide that teaches you how to take full advantage of Oracle's powerful database systems, including Web-based J/SQL implementations. In addition, you will learn to streamline client/server communications and queries and use a variety of enhancements, such as triggers and packages, which make Oracle application development much smoother.Whether you are a beginning programmer or an accomplished Oracle user, Sams Teach Yourself PL/SQL in 21 Days will help you establish yourself as an Oracle programmer, ready for advancement in this premium database marketplace. By walking you through each element of the PL/SQL language extension, this book helps you to understand the basics of using new and existing Oracle8 objects, as well as complex processing issues. This guide also teaches you to implement PL/SQL in a comprehensive, real-world system.

From the Publisher
Teach Yourself PL/SQL in 21 Days leads the reader step-by-step to a solid understanding of PL/SQL and developing robust applications for Oracle. - Leads the reader step-by-step to a solid understanding of PL/SQL (Oracle's powerful and flexible procedural language that is used to develop applications)

- PL/SQL is essential in order to program and develop with Oracle and to be able to take advantage of the Oracle tools' capabilities

- By using real-world examples in an easy-to-comprehend style, readers will learn how to use PL/SQL to build robust applications

Product Details

• Paperback: 646 pages
• Publisher: Sams (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672311232
• ISBN-13: 978-0672311239
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,314,262 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One of the best out of collection of bad books, August 10, 2000

By	zero_sigma "jayomegal" (Rutherford, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

If you are starting out in Oracle PL/SQL, this book and their online help HTML/PDF is the only source you are going to need. All other books out in the bookshelves are garbage. This is one of the best books out of shelf-full of bad books on PL/SQL. Index on the back of the book is incomplete to say the least. I believe any good programming book should have extensive index, since nobody has the time to go through the whole book, and we need to refer to index for different things as we work on a project. So far, of all the books, and I have a collection now, this book is the most comprehensive book, if you can find what page to look.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, April 14, 1999

By A Customer

For the novice user, chapters 1 through 8 give a good description of the language. I was able to understand how the language works and do the exercises. From chapter 9 until the end, I guess the authors assume that the debugging chapter was enough to start debugging their examples. Even some the examples on the CD-ROM did not execute.

Week 3 is the worst if you do not have the Oracle software listed in chapter 1, but it is worth the read. At least you can impress the interviewer at your next interview.

If you want to learn a little about Oracle and have some Visual Basic experience, try Nick Snowden's Oracle with Visual Basic. It is mainly SQL, but I got a better view of how Oracle operates.

I used the 21-Day Book for Visual Basic 5 and learned a lot (first time I had ever used VB). I was expecting the same level of learning from this book and was highly disappointed.

As for a good PL/SQL book, I am still looking.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book for a beginner, September 27, 1998

By A Customer

I started learning pl/sql a couple of weeks ago. I am halfway through the book(i am not doing a chapter a day:). I find it very easy to comprehend ,even by a novice. I think it is a really good start if you know some sql. There are a few small flaws(typo errors) which are no problem.