Easy Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Get Started Fast with Working PL/SQL Code Examples

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This second edition, authored by distinguished Oracle veteran, John Garmany, is an indispensable guide for any Oracle professional who must quickly implement Oracle reporting. John's decades of SQL*Plus experience come to bear in this indispensible book. New tips and tricks have been included in this cutting edge edition.
In this text, John Garmany leverages his ability to explain complex issues in plain English into a one-of-a-kind book for PL/SQL beginners. This book is ...
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Overview

This second edition, authored by distinguished Oracle veteran, John Garmany, is an indispensable guide for any Oracle professional who must quickly implement Oracle reporting. John's decades of SQL*Plus experience come to bear in this indispensible book. New tips and tricks have been included in this cutting edge edition.
In this text, John Garmany leverages his ability to explain complex issues in plain English into a one-of-a-kind book for PL/SQL beginners. This book is intended for anyone who needs to extract Oracle data and format reports. John reveals even more secrets for quickly and easily producing stunning reports from Oracle.

This second edition of Easy Oracle PL/SQL provides the reader with the tools needed to create, debug and execute PL/SQL code. The example driven methodology will have users coding basic PL/SQL blocks by the end of the first chapter. Each chapter builds on previous concepts, introducing increasingly more complex PL/SQL coding, while always focusing on readability and manageability.

Each concept is introduced using multiple examples and each chapter has exercises to test knowledge. With Easy Oracle PL/SQL, the incredible power to use the Oracle Database in harmony with your application will be at your fingertips.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780982306116
  • Publisher: Rampant TechPress
  • Publication date: 8/1/2010
  • Series: Easy Oracle Series Series
  • Edition description: Second Edition, Second edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 198
  • Sales rank: 1093499
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.42 (d)

Meet the Author

John Garmany is an OCP Certified Oracle DBA and a senior oracle DBA with Burleson Consulting. He is a writer for Oracle Internals, DBAZine, www.SearchOracle.com, and SELECT magazine and the author of Oracle 11g New Features, Oracle RAC &Grid Turning with Solid-state Disk, and Oracle Replication. He lives in Golden, Colorado. Donald K. Burleson is one of the world’s top Oracle Database experts with more than 20 years of full-time DBA experience. He has written 30 books, including Oracle Data Mining and Oracle Shell Scripting, and serves as editor in chief of Rampant TechPress. He lives in Kittrel, North Carolina.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2007

    VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

    Do you have the tools to create, debug and execute PL/SQL code? If you don¿t, then this book is for you. Authors John Garmany and Don Burleson, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that will introduce you to the power and capability of Oracle¿s Procedural Language extensions to Structured Query Language or PL/SQL. Garmany and Burleson, begin with an introduction to what PL/SQL is and how to use it. Then, the authors deal with structures that alter the program flow. Next, they cover creating and using PL/SQL procedures and functions. They also focus on using PL/SQL to interact with data in the database. Finally, the authors covered a lot of advanced PL/SQL topics from collections and bulk operation, to packages and triggers. In this most excellent book is designed to be a high-level introduction to PL/SQL. Perhaps more importantly, this book will help you put the incredible power of the Oracle Database to use with your application.

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