Codenotes for Oracle 9i

By Gregory Brill

CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812992016
• ISBN13: 9780812992014
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

hard to believe that this got published

Without wasting a lot of space on screen shots, this book provides step by step instructions for downloading and installing Oracle on both Linux and Windows and then using it. It explains new Oracle features such as the timestamp datatype and generally gets the novice up and running quickly. Everything else that you need is in the online/CD-ROM docs. If you're going to administer a production database yourself you'd probably want the Oracle Press dba book. If you're going to continue using Oracle you probably also want the bone-crushing Oracle Press "complete reference" book. But start with this one.

Amazingly effective for quickly learning Oracle 9i

If you already know Oracle 7x or 8x, you won't benefit as much from this book as you will from Oracle 9i New Features by Robert G. Freeman (ISBN 0072223855). However, if you're coming from a SQL Server, Sybase or other RDBMS environment, or are a developer who needs to quickly learn Oracle this is an ideal book.You'll need a basic understanding of both relational databases and programming to effectively use this book. Although both topics are briefly covered, the book's pace is quick and it goes surprisingly deep into knowledge and skill factors needed to work with Oracle 9i. Although this book is written for working professionals, it employs excellent learning techniques, such as exercises and self-tests. It's tempting to bypass them and just plough through the information, but I recommend that you work through them because you'll come away with a much deeper understanding of Oracle 9i - and will do so in less than a weekend.The range of topics covered is what makes this book special - in less than 200 pages the book provides practical and relatively detailed information on SQL*Plus and PL/SQL, how Oracle 9i works, and even goes into tuning.This is the first book I've read in the CodeNote series, and if the rest of the books are as well written and presented as this one I'll turn to them first when I need to become quickly functional in a particular technology.