Mastering Oracle SQL

by Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu

If you write programs to run against an Oracle database, you spend a lot of time and mental energy writing queries to return the data your programs need. Knowledge of SQL, and particularly of Oracle's implementation of SQL, is the key to writing good queries in a timely manner. In this book, the authors share their knowledge of Oracle SQL, and show you many creative techniques that you can use to advantage in your own applications.This book shows you how In addition, you'll see how SQL can best be integrated with PL/SQL. You'll also learn various best practices to help you write SQL queries that perform efficiently.Precious few books on the market today go beyond discussing syntax and the barest rudiments of using Oracle SQL. This book changes that, showing you how to creatively leverage the full power of SQL to write queries in an Oracle environment.

Genres: Technical, Reference

321 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Sivadasan Channar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good for Oracle programmers and DBA as a compendium of SQL procedures and query constructs. I found it to be very useful daily reference in my career.

[Gordian · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was great for me. It's outdated but can be really useful for learning the basics of Oracle SQL.