Pro .Net Oracle Programming

by Mark A. Williams

This book never loses sight of its instructional mission: to effectively utilize the Oracle database from the .NET environment. Though Visual Studio and Oracle form a popular and powerful duo, there is a noticeable lack of written material in this area. The result: projects that often turn out with less-than-optimal solutions, due to lack of "synergy" between the application developer and the database.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590594258
• ISBN13: 9781590594254
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best books out there

Best one, nicely explains the basics and advanced topics of oracle - .NET programming. A Must read for beginners in Oracle/.NET.

Great book for oracle and .net.

I got this book when in started working with oracle db using .net 2.0 beta1. It's really good book for understanding .net and oracle using odp.net and MS driver.

Confirmed my real-world experience

I put a system into production last fall with .NET and Oracle. Wish I had this book nine months ago! Mark has good advice for someone new to Oracle, but familiar with .NET. I've gone back and tweaked the system based on Mark's recommendations. I'm happy.

Useful for me

As someone who has written some .NET applications using MS Access and SQL Server I found the material to be appropriate and helpful as I am new to Oracle. Some things that I found especially helpful were: - discussing the difference between an Oracle database and an instance - what the various parameter files such as the tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora files are for and how to configure them - the examples of how to use bind variables, pl/sql, and the advanced connections chapter I do agree with the first reviewer that this book does somewhat sew together material from other sources (which I actually found helpful not a negative), but I disagree that the examples were not helpful or extensive enough - there were appropriate examples for each topic so far as I could tell. All and all I would say this is a worthwhile book if you are new to Oracle and need to figure out how to get started developing applications for Oracle.

How could it have been better for you?

Dr. Oracle, I am, of course, disappointed that you did not find the book helpful. I am, however, curious as to how it could have been better? For example, when you say, "I found that the authors examples and stratigies are not those that actually happen in real world environments." What specifically about them do feel is not "real-world"? You also say, "If would had been helpful if he could have provided some of his own experiences he deals with on a day to day basis." A great many of the topics (such as lack of bind variable usage and array usage) come directly from daily experience - perhaps I did not specifically state that in more than a few places. The book is targetted to a developer with some database experience but is new to Oracle. In short, I tried to show how to create "correct" Oracle applications from .NET for that audience. Thanks, Mark Mark A. Williams, Author Pro .NET Oracle Programming