This book is the definitive guide to undocumented and partially-documented features of the Oracle Database server. It helps you learn to apply the right solution at the right time, about avoiding risk, about making robust choices related to Oracle databases.

This book introduces the reader to Oracle programming, from SQL and PL/SQL to the more academic subjects of database design, normalization and the characteristics of an effective developer.

This book describes all features of the Oracle database server, an object-relational database management system. It describes how the Oracle database server functions, and it lays a conceptual foundation for much of the practical information.

This book is designed to bridge the gap between the many PHP and the many Oracle texts available. It shows how to use the PHP scripting language with the Oracle database, from installation to using them efficiently.

This book uses a simple step by step approach to explain the essential relational database design modelling techniques, and shows how Oracle SQL can be used to implement a database. There are numerous practical exercises with feedback.

This book distills an enormous amount of information about Oracle into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints.

This book is designed to bridge the gap between the many PHP and the many Oracle texts available.

This book delivers up-to-the-minute practical guidance that empowers DBAs to target SSD technology to those database areas that will benefit most.

Provides an overview of the components needed to produce an Oracle data warehouse: project planning; data scrubbing; metadata; data modelling; star schema; spatial challenges; security; backup and recovery; tuning loads; data mining; and data marts.

This book emphasizes application development skills-not Oracle product internals or syntax. Covers strong use of Oracle's PL/SQL extensions.

This book is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available.

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