Expert One on One Oracle

by Thomas Kyte

Tom Kyte has a simple you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment. If you choose the latter course, then you will find that there are few information management problems that you cannot solve quickly and elegantly. Tom has selected the most important features and techniques and he teaches them in a proof-by-example manner, not only discussing the features available, but also how to implement software using them and indicating the potential pitfalls. This book
Core database structures and utilities
Performance tuning
Advanced SQL features
Extensibility using C, Java and OR features
Security
Important supplied packages

1265 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

Reviews

[Tobias Ehrig · Rating 4 out of 5]

After many years still a good book. Some infos of course are outdatet

[Lawrence · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tom Kyte is simply the best Oracle expert for me. His thoroughness, extreme competency and usage of other experts impresses me no end, oh and his humour and self deprecating manner are top. Very cool

[Scott Wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the best books about working with databases, Oracle or any other.

[Ivo Stoykov · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an Oracle database bible. Great book. A must read for everyone coping with Oracle from the sysdba or developer side. Highly recommended.