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Title: Oracle PL/SQL by Example, Third Edition by Benjamin Rosenzweig, Elena Silvestrova ISBN: 0-13-117261-1 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great review, but wrong about one thing
Comment: Wes' review was excellent, with one major mistake. Oracle offers all the free software you care to download. Just go to http://otn.oracle.com/software/index.html and you can have it all free to learn on, etc. The full versions.
I think the book is very good as well.
Rating: 4
Summary: You can access a PL/SQL executable with this book
Comment: Very much a task oriented book, suitable for a classroom or self paced study. It is aimed at someone who wants or needs explicit lessons and exercises. Thoughtfully, the authors also furnished answers to the exercises. Sometimes with other computing books, I have wondered why their authors omit questions. Perhaps the nature of the topic makes it awkward to provide problem sets. But not for Oracle's PL/SQL language. So this book is chock-a-block with them.
To students, retention is greatly enhanced by doing, and the book will take you a long way into facility with PL/SQL if you can discipline yourself to go through it methodically and not peek at the answers till you have given the problems a fair go.
As far as the language itself, the book's presentation reminds me of a text on fortran or C, and unlike a text on java or C#. Firstly, the latter two are object-oriented, while PL/SQL, fortran and C are procedural. So if you have already learnt fortran or C and you read this book, step back and defocus a little from the specific syntax. Stylistically, the book has the flavour of many texts in those languages. Reinforced by PL/SQL not having a GUI. The I/O is character based. A slight retro feel. [Though PL/SQL should NOT have a GUI. It is optimised as a query language.]
One thing to note is that the book explains using examples and exercises that are at the subroutine or procedural level, as mentioned above. Bite sized. What it lacks are higher level examples that necessitate decomposing a problem into several procedures. But this may be unfair. Those are harder, more abstract issues, whereas this book is meant for someone who still needs to learn the syntax in the first place. It does suggest the utility of such a book, as a logical successor to this.
A final note relates to the problem sets. There is a difficulty with learning PL/SQL compared to, say, C or java. With C you can download an open source compiler. With java, you can get a free compiler from Sun or IBM. With SQL, there is the open source MySQL. Not so with PL/SQL. I don't think Oracle offers a free version. So if you are studying on your own, this is a severe quandary. How do you get a PL/SQL executable? Otherwise, the attraction of this book, or any other on PL/SQL, for that matter, is greatly restricted to classrooms or companies that already have that, and not to individuals. Well, the authors and the publisher offer access, at the publisher's website. This may be the strongest merit of the book.
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Title: Oracle SQL Interactive Workbook (2nd Edition) by Alice Rischert ISBN: 0131002775 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Oracle PL/SQL Interactive Workbook (2nd Edition) by Benjamin Rosenzweig, Elena Silvestrova ISBN: 0130473200 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers by Susan Boardman, Melanie Caffrey, Solomon Morse, Benjamin Rosenzweig ISBN: 0130477311 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 18 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Oracle9i: The Complete Reference by Kevin Loney, George Koch ISBN: 0072225211 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 16 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $74.99 |
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Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition by Steven Feuerstein ISBN: 0596003811 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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