Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers, and Business Analysts - Softcover

Palinski, John Adolph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201752948 ISBN 13: 9780201752946

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2002

Synopsis

Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook is designed as both a basic reference as well as a how-to guide. It offers thorough coverage of Oracle's SQL query language and PL/SQL programming language. It focuses on the practical aspects of using SQL and PL/SQL to most effectively extract usable information from Oracle systems. Thus it is of use not only to database administrators, but also to business managers, developers, and power users. The book's initial chapters offer a complete introduction to the relational database environment, including a discussion of how to use the logical data model to understand the database. From there, Oracle database objects are covered, along with uses of the Data Definition Language (DDL), the Data Control Language (DCL), and the Data Manipulation Language (DML). Throughout the book frequently used commands and content are stressed, and numerous examples of SQL techniques are provided. In addition, most of the book's chapters provide practice questions designed to reinforce concepts covered.

About this title

About the Author

John Adolph Palinski is a Supervisor of Computer Applications for the Omaha Public Power District where he has developed and implemented numerous Oracle systems. He is also an instructor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. A Certified Oracle Professional Developer, he has taught SQL, PL/SQL, and Developer 2000 courses and is the author of Oracle Database Construction Kit (Que, 1997). He is a frequent contributor to Oracle periodicals such as Oracle Internals and Oracle Professional. He also provides on-site training through his consulting company, Realistic Software Training.

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From the Back Cover

Concise and practical, this indispensable volume brings the world’s most popular Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), its query language SQL, and its programming language PL/SQL into clear focus for today’s busy database professional or business analyst. Covering the most commonly used Oracle features, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook is ideal for the developer or business user challenged with implementing, maintaining, and retrieving mission-critical data within the Oracle database environment.

Broadly designed as both a basic reference and how-to, this book offers extensive coverage of Oracle’s SQL language and database concepts, providing an excellent review for the Oracle certification exams. The initial chapters offer a complete introduction to the relational database environment, including a discussion of how to use the logical data model to understand the database. Oracle database objects are explored, along with uses of the Data Definition Language (DDL), the Data Control Language (DCL), and the Data Manipulation Language (DML). Later chapters offer complete coverage of the Select command used to retrieve information from the database. Also included are coverage of Oracle’s new analytic functions, a chapter on performance-tuning techniqes needed for complex SQL, and a detailed overview of Oracle’s PL/SQL language. In addition, many chapters provide practice questions designed to reinforce newly introduced concepts, as well as numerous examples of SQL techniques.

The broad-based and comprehensive coverage also includes:

Understanding the database using entity relationship diagrams and database schema diagrams

Applying the Data Definition, Data Control, and Data Manipulation languages to create and maintain the database

Using the SQL language to retrieve information from the database

Creating special business information using Oracle’s new analytic functions

Making your SQL perform better with common troubleshooting techniques

Producing business information with business objects

Using Java with PL/SQL

Authoritative and practical, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook provides today’s administrator and business analyst alike with the most comprehensive sourcebook of solutions and techniques for improving their use of Oracle.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201752948
• ISBN 13: 9780201752946
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528