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I will start off by saying that I have more of an issue with my college course than I do with this textbook. That being said, I am a student at GMU and I have to wonder why my professor chose this particular book.
1) It’s expensive. College Students are just a captive audience now-a-days. With Universities and Professors getting kickbacks, all the while preaching to their students about the school’s honor code. Hey Professors, there is no honor in the practice of picking substandard overpriced books and forcing them on your students. Nor is there any in writing your own books and pretending there are not better books out there priced considerably cheaper.
2) You don’t get the answers to the practice problems. Is this how people learn now, not being informed which problems they got right, or which problems they got wrong? Just wondering how you learn like that.
3) This is minor but, the book focuses on using the Oracle SQL Developer tool, however we had to use sqlplus for all of our assignments. While the commands are the same, I would have rather used a book that focused on sqlplus. Or been allowed to actually use the Oracle SQL tool displayed in the book, again this is more of issue with my college course.
4) I felt the examples in the book were vague. And there was something about the flow in which the material was presented that I just found unappealing.
5) If you need this book for your college course like I did, consider just renting it, and use an additional book to actually learn the subject matter. I just found Oracle PL/SQL Programming by Feuerstein and Pribyl, just wished I’d gotten found it sooner. This book is nearly 3 times the size and less than half the price.
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I like a lot of the examples in the book, It is nice to see some example code from developer. But the descriptions of the code in the text can be cryptic at times, something I would describe as SQLese. I wish the writing was focused more on understanding and less on trying to sound academic...but it gets the job done, I guess.
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I chose 5 star rating because this book provides a good idea about PL/SQL programming topics. I like the way this book was written, exercises provided. I recommend this book to PL/SQL programming beginners.
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The examples in this book are great for someone who has been around the SQL block once or twice in a tricycle. If you understand basic SQL this text could teach you PL/SQL basics easily.. if you can afford it. Luckily for Cengauge I was in a class, so I didn't have a choice.
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