Sams Teach Yourself Oracle PL/SQL in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta

by Ben Forta

Many of the current PL/SQL titles are overkill for those who need to use PL/SQL but have no intention of becoming professional DBAs. This book teaches you what you really need to know, without getting bogged down by what you don't. In Oracle PL/SQL Crash Course, author expert Ben Forta distills the essentials of PL/SQL into a set of self-paced lessons in which you complete practice exercises designed to illustrate the most important aspects of setting up, using, and administering PL/SQL. Instead of dwelling of database theory and relational design, this book takes a very hands-on approach to solving the needs of the majority of SQL users who simply need to interact with data. You learn how to:

Use the PL/SQL toolset Retrieve and sort data Filter data using comparisons, wildcards, and full text searching Use the aggregate functions to analyze data Perform insert, update, and delete operations Join relational tables using inner, outer, and self joins Combine queries using unions Use views Create, and modify tables, and access table schemas Create and use stored procedures, cursors, and other advanced database features Manage databases, users, and security privileges

Paperback

First published September 2, 2015

About the author

Ben Forta is an author and Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and the owner of EmTek Systems. He previously worked in a similar capacity for Macromedia and Allaire Corporation, the two previous owners of ColdFusion.

In addition to writing numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta co-authored Adobe's official ColdFusion training materials and certification tests and lectures on application development around the world. Many of his books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.

Before working for Allaire, he founded the website Car.com, which was later purchased by Auto-By-Tel. Born in London, England, Forta lives in Oak Park, Michigan with his wife and their children.

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Reviews

[Jose Ignacio · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is fine, but really very introductory.

So this is not ok for the professional, maybe for a univeristy student.