Pro Oracle SQL

by Karen Morton, Robyn Sands, Jared Still, Riyaj Shamsudeen, Kerry Osborne

Overview

Pro Oracle SQL unlocks the power of SQL in the Oracle Database one of the most potent SQL implementations on the market today. This book is for developers and database administrators who are writing and optimizing SQL queries and data manipulation stateme

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430232292
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	08/13/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	600
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Karen Morton is a consultant and educator specializing in application optimization in both shoulder-to-shoulder consulting engagements and classroom settings. She is a Senior Technical Consultant for Enkitec. For more than 20 years, Karen has worked in information technology. Starting as a mainframe programmer and developer, she has been a database administrator, a data architect and now is a researcher, educator and consultant. Having used Oracle since the early 90s, she began teaching others how to use Oracle over a decade ago. Karen is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups, an Oracle ACE, and a member of the OakTable network (an informal association of "Oracle scientists" that are well known throughout the Oracle community). She blogs at karenmorton.blogspot.com.

Table of Contents

• Core SQL
• SQL Execution
• Access and Join Methods
• SQL is About Sets
• It’s About the Question
• SQL Execution Plans
• Advanced Grouping
• Analytic Functions
• The Model Clause
• Subquery Factoring
• Semi-joins and Anti-joins
• Indexes
• Beyond the SELECT
• Transaction Processing
• Testing and Quality Assurance
• Plan Stability and Control