McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 5, 2007) | ISBN:0071498508 | 656 pages | PDF | 3,1 Mb


Learn to access Oracle databases through SQL statements and construct PL/SQL programs with guidance from Oracle expert, Jason Price. Published by Oracle Press, Oracle Database 11g SQL explains how to retrieve and modify database information, use SQL Plus and SQL Developer, work with database objects, write PL/SQL programs, and much more. Inside, you'll find in-depth coverage of the very latest SQL features and tools, performance optimization techniques, advanced queries, Java support, and XML. This book contains everything you need to master SQL.
Explore SQL Plus and SQL Developer
Use SQL SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements
Write PL/SQL programs
Create tables, sequences, indexes, views, and triggers
Write advanced queries containing complex analytical functions
Create database objects and collections to handle abstract data
Use large objects to handle multimedia files containing music and movies
Write Java programs to access an Oracle Database using JDBC
Tune your SQL statements to make them execute faster
Explore the XML capabilities of the Oracle Database
Master the very latest Oracle Database 11g features, such as PIVOT and UNPIVOT, flashback archives, and much more

Don’t have time to learn about and try the latest Oracle 10g features and releases? Want to understand how Oracle Project Raptor, Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET and Automatic Storage Management can enhance your productivity and simplify your database development and manageability tasks?

The Oracle by Example (OBE) series provides hands-on tutorials that include step-by-step instructions on how to quickly deploy these features and perform the associated tasks. With the OBE series, you can reduce the time spent learning about the tasks and focus on doing them. Additionally, the real-world tutorials can serve as a foundation for your production implementation, reducing your time to deployment. The OBEs provide installation instructions and the scripts necessary to learn, for example, how to encrypt data using Transparent Data Encryption, extract data from XML documents using XQuery, manage disks and disk groups using Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and backup and restore your database using RMAN.

Although you can use other Oracle environments, the OBEs in this series focus on the steps required in a Windows
environment using a Single Database Instance.