Oracle Database 10g SQL / Edition 1

by Jason Price, Lisa McClain

Overview

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Write Powerful SQL Statements and PL/SQL Programs

In this comprehensive book, you’ll learn to write Structured Query Language (SQL) statements to access an Oracle database and use PL/SQL (Procedural Language/SQL) to write programs containing SQL statements. Developed in compliance with the new SQL2003 specification, this definitive resource explains how to use the latest Oracle Database 10g features, and much more. Written by Oracle guru Jason Price, Oracle Database 10g SQL covers everything you need to know to master SQL.

• Execute queries, inserts, updates, and deletes against a database
• Write PL/SQL stored programs, packages, and triggers
• Create database tables, sequences, indexes, views, and users
• Use SQL*Plus to execute SQL statements, scripts, and reports
• Perform complex calculations using analytic functions
• Learn the basics of running SQL using Java through JDBC
• Use large objects to store up to 128 terabytes of character and binary data
• Define database object types and create object tables to handle advanced data
• Use all the latest Oracle Database 10g features such as the BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE types, the MODEL clause, and more
• Implement high-performance tuning techniques to make your SQL statements really fly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072229813
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	02/20/2004
Series:	Oracle Press
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jason Price (Castro Valley, CA) has over 10 years experience in the software industry, 5 of which were spent at Oracle. Jason is an Oracle Certified Professional DBA and Application Developer and has written several books: Java Programming with Oracle SQLJ, O'Reilly (2001) Oracle9i JDBC Programming, Oracle Press (2002) Mastering Visual C# .NET, Sybex (2002) Mastering Visual C# .NET Database Programming, Sybex (2003.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1: Introduction

Ch. 2: Retrieving Information from Tables

Ch. 3: Using Simple Functions

Ch. 4: Storing and Processing Dates and Times

Ch. 5: Using SQL *Plus

Ch. 6: Subqueries

Ch. 7: Advanced Select Functions

Ch. 8: Changing Table Contents

Ch. 9: Database Security

Ch. 10: Creating Database Tables, Indexes, Views, and Sequences

Ch 11: Introducing PL/SQL Programming

Ch. 12: Database Objects

Ch. 13: Collections

Ch. 14: Large Objects

Ch 15: Native XML Support

Ch. 16: Tuning

Appendix A Oracle Data Types