Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C Kreines, David C. Kreines

Book Overview

Introduced a quarter-century ago, the Oracle database remains the leading enterprise relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Oracle is a complex system, offering a myriad of products, languages, and tools. Frequent updates, releases, and editions complicate the ability of Oracle users to keep up with the huge amounts of frequently changing information about the database and its capabilities. The goal of Oracle in a Nutshell is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596003366
• ISBN13: 9780596003364
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

For experienced developers

I agree with another reviewer who said if you know Oracle this could be the book for you. I'm tired of digging through huge books to answer a simple syntax question. This book enables me to get concise answers quickly. But, if you're an Oracle neophyte this is NOT the book for you.

Definitive Oracle work

This is a huge book, and it's tough to consider it a "nutshell" (I'd hate to see the squirrel)---but it is far and away the most accurate and complete of all the Oracle mega-references out there. If you've tried to muddle through Oracle documentation, this is really a breath of fresh air.

Excellent Reference

As an Oracle developer, I have been frustrated reading all the Oracle documentations. It's hard to locate what you want to know in those big and thick documentations. I was thrilled to find this book -- it really is a great reference and it can basiclly replace my collection of some other Oracle books. This book is very well-organized into different topics including architecture, data dictionary, SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA and much more. Some topics like PL/SQL and Java, (imagine they are in one book!) look more like a dictionary. You can easily look up for the systax/commands. It gives you a few lines coding as example followed by a brief explaination --All in a concise manor. ( I believe the author has spent considerable time and effort not only in writing the book to make it as complete as possible but also in oragzating each topic in a logical and easy to follow way. ).Bottom line, this is a very comprehensive resource covering lots of topics, pretty much whatever you need is all in there, in one book!! I have been benefit a lot from having this book at my desktop for quick and easy reference.

Everything All In One Place

This book is a terrific reference. I love having one place to look for all of those "simple" questions that come up -- the syntax for a particular function, how to format a column heading in SQL*Plus, what does a particular function from a package do. It comes in very handy when reading someone else's code. This book does not bog you down with lengthy explanations. It is not intended to replace training. It just pulls everything together in one place. If you're going to buy one Oracle book, this is it.

At last! A single Oracle reference work (that's readable)

In a word - indispensible! As usual, O'Reilly come through with the goods again, this time on a topic that most people would believe impossible to condense usefully into a single volume.What's more, it is actually possible to simply read many of the lucid descriptive sections - for example the section describing the locking scheme is a model that all database documentation writers should take note of.Of course, this book isn't for everyone; it presumes a decent grounding in the essentials of RDBMSs - but if you haven't got that, there are any number of books out there to get you started - and THEN you'll want this book.