Sams Teach Yourself Oracle PL/SQL in 10 Minutes

by Ben Forta

Covers Oracle DBMS versions 10, 11, 12, and XE "Sams Teach Yourself Oracle PL/SQL in 10 Minutes" offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through the book's 26 lessons of 10 minutes or less, you'll learn what you need to know to take advantage of Oracle's PL/SQL language. This handy pocket guide starts with simple data retrieval and moves on to more complex topics, including the use of joins, subqueries, regular expression and full text-based searches, stored procedures, cursors, triggers, table constraints, and much more. Tips point out shortcuts and solutions.
Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls.
Notes explain additional concepts and provide additional information. 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to...
Use PL/SQL in the Oracle environments and tools Construct complex PL/SQL statements using multiple clauses and operators Retrieve, sort, and format database contents Pinpoint the data you need using a variety of filtering techniques Use string, date-time, and math functions to manipulate your data Join two or more related tables Insert, update, and delete data Create and alter database tables Work with views, stored procedures, cursors, triggers, and more

286 pages, Kindle Edition

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.