- Paperback: 1050 pages
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; 3rd Revised edition edition (Mar 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0078820979
- ISBN-13: 978-0078820977
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.3 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,196,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An alphabetical reference of Oracle commands, functions, syntax, key words, concepts and products. The book includes a review of critical database concepts and an overview of SQL, as well as insider's tips and techniques for developing Oracle products. Throughout the text are extensive examples of the effective use, design and maintenance of databases. Also included are examples of how Oracle's gateway capabilities allow users to transparently integrate new and existing data, systems and applications.
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Format:Paperback
This book starts with a tutorial section that doesn't assume any Oracle knowledge, the 2nd half is reference. The online version on the CD is fairly clumsy in it's search capabilities.
Format:Paperback
The book definitely isn't a good starting place, and the copy protection on the CD is quite annoying, but still, overall, the book is extremely useful. It's reference is occasionally circular but exhaustive and invaluable when attempting to tune your database or use odd commands.
Format:Paperback
The only thing "complete" about this book is how completely confused you will be if you expect to use this as a tutorial or reference and you have less than 5+ years of working experience with Oracle systems. The book reeks of being written by programmers who make bold assumptions as to what a person knows, often leaving gaping holes of critical information. The organization is just plain bad: It's not until Chapter 16 that you even learn how to create a table, after hundreds of pages of details on "complex possibilities". This book continuously puts advanced concepts in front of basic concepts and often ignores basic concepts altogether.
As a reference, the book is SORELY, SORELY lacking, with very few, if any examples of most SQL statements. Here's a classic example of the book's bad organization. You look up the TO_CHAR function, which converts a date or number to a character string and accepts a special format string, UNFORTUNATELY the specs on the format string are nowhere to be found; instead the book leads you on a wild scavenger hunt through hundreds of pages trying to find the information you seek. Perhaps by Oracle's attempt to integrate a tutorial with a reference they ended up botching both efforts.
With all this being said, I still have to admit that I use the book on a daily basis (embedded with post-its to mark the scattered info). It's often more efficient than wading through online documentation for quick info, and while I wouldn't consider it anywhere near a standard, it's the closest I've found to a useable reference -- but this says more about what's out there (or lack thereof) than the quality of this book.
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Take my Oracle reference....Please
The only thing "complete" about this book is how completely confused you will be if you expect to use this as a tutorial or reference and you have less than 5+ years of... Read more
Published on 12 May 1998
CD does not have searchable electronic documentation
Inclusion of CD is misleading. It is copy
protected and of very little value. This is the first book I have seen which deceives a customer.
protected and of very little value. This is the first book I have seen which deceives a customer.
Published on 23 April 1997
The No.1 Oracle Encyclopedia : EXHAUSTIVE AND COMPLETE !
This is one of the very best books you will ever come across on Oracle. Current education units tend to make this powerful RDBMS seems very complex. Read more
Published on 21 April 1997
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