The Oracle PL/SQL CD Bookshelf

By: O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. Staff

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565928490
• ISBN13: 9781565928497
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Technically excellent! AND a well rounded person

I particularly needed the chapters on NDS and Bulk Collections - also good is the TUSC book Advanced PL/SQL Tips and Techniques. How unusual to find a programmer with a political conscience, not just another self-centered, workaholic, money-hungry, vacation in the Bahamas type ;> I found it refreshing.

Excellent Resource For PL/SQL and Oracle Database Developers

This CD Bookshelf is an excellent resource for PL/SQL and Oracle Database Developers. It contains 7 books which offer valuable information on PL/SQL programming. The collection of books cover basic to advanced PL/SQL programming topics. Beginners and advanced PL/SQL Developers will find this a good reference to add to their library collection. The Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 2nd Edition book on the PL/SQL CD Bookshelf provides indepth information on the fundamentals of PL/SQL. For more advanced developers the Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages is an excellent resource. Other books on the PL/SQL CD Bookshelf are equally useful and valuable. The PL/SQL CD Bookshelf is a great resource kit to have in my collection!

A must-have for PL/SQL professionals.

As a consultant, I depend on having the right answers available when they're needed. This compilation of books gives me an easily portable collection of seven of the best PL/SQL references available. The ebooks are collections of HTML pages, readable with any browser. The included search engine allows you to search through all the books, or a single book at a time (though not a limited subset of books) for keywords or phrases. The included "Oracle PL/SQL Programming Guide to Oracle8i Features" is an excellent book in its own right, with the typical well-written, entertaining, and informative prose that Feurstein fans are enamored with. This package is an incredible value.

Good technical content, politics are out of line

Mr. Feuerstein has consistently been the guru in the PL/SQL world, and nearly every developer I know carries dog-eared copies of his books. However, he has definitely overstepped the bounds of technical writing with his latest book, Guide to Oracle 8i Features. The technical content of this book is extremely complete and useful. The political commentary is uncalled for and offensive.At first, his use of "real world" scenarios as code examples was annoying -- and eventually it became offensive. I respect Mr. Feuerstein's personal beliefs and his right to have them; however, they are wholly inappropriate in a technical book. Using pick_nato_targets (with input parameters such as "maternity_ward_ok" and "civilian_casualties") is grossly offensive, even if someone happens to share his beliefs.The examples are distracting, and do not add anything to the text in any way. Everyone to whom I have shown this book was appalled at the examples. The technical editor in our office was horrified, and most of the other developers who have seen this book will not purchase it. None of us wish to be preached at, or be the target of condescending and offensive examples.Please let me stress that I respect Mr. Feuerstein's opinions -- but if he wants to write political opinions, he should be using a different forum, not a PL/SQL technical reference. The political content of this book is completely unprofessional, inappropriate, and embarrassing. I expect this kind of proselytizing in the editorial page of the local paper, not in a technical reference book. However, the technical content of the book is very good (as are all the Oracle texts from O'Reilly). I will probably continue to use it as a reference.

Very helpful - was practical help in E-Commerce Security

The political stuff doesn't bother at all. It's just the variable names of the packages and procedures. But what is more important. New technologies like row level security (DBMS_RLS) , the Fine Grained Acces Control - the new dynamic SQL - possibilites like creating an Oracle schema/user dynamically (eg. one who logs himself in over a browser/webserver, which calls the relevant package that implements the technique) - logging mechanisms thru autonomous transactions. I could use all of that stuff for an Oracle 8i-JavaServlet-JavaServerPages - Project, which would otherwise have let me look in 10 different books ! Great ; but that's almost normal from Stevens books ! You sometimes almost can just copy and paste and adjust a bit. Saved me a lot of time.