Oracle PL/SQL Programming 4th Edition by Steven Feuerstein (PDF)

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For the past ten years, O’Reilly’s Oracle PL/SQL Programming has been the bestselling book on PL/SQL, Oracle’s powerful procedural language. Packed with examples and helpful recommendations, the book has helped everyone–from novices to experienced developers, and from Oracle Forms developers to database administrators–make the most of PL/SQL.The fourth edition is a comprehensive update, adding significant new content and extending coverage to include the very latest Oracle version, Oracle Database 10g Release 2. It describes such new features as the PL/SQL optimizing compiler, conditional compilation, compile-time warnings, regular expressions, set operators for nested tables, nonsequential collections in FORALL, the programmer-defined quoting mechanism, the ability to backtrace an exception to a line number, a variety of new built-in packages, and support for IEEE 754 compliant floating-point numbers.The new edition adds brand-new chapters on security (including encryption, row-level security, fine-grained auditing, and application contexts), file, email, and web I/O (including the built-in packages DBMS_OUTPUT, UTL_FILE, UTL_MAIL, UTL_SMTP, and UTL_HTTP) and globalization and localization.Co-authored by the world’s foremost PL/SQL authority, Steven Feuerstein, this classic reference provides language syntax, best practices, and extensive code, ranging from simple examples to complete applications–making it a must-have on your road to PL/SQL mastery. A companion web site contains many more examples and additional technical content for enhanced learning.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I’ve worked with Oracle and PL/SQL on and off for ages. I never really took a dive into the details of anything until recently. I knew the basics of PL/SQL blocks, writing procedures/functions and some of the “advanced” column/data types and interactions with them(XML with XPath, for example).Being a professional software engineer for some time now and working with Oracle regularly has lead me down a path of basic knowledge. This book took that knowledge and pushed the boundaries further than I could have imagined. Great detail, simple/concise/powerful examples and explanations coupled with the author’s ability to write with humor make this a wonderful read from beginner to intermediate.Advanced users/developers may find it useful merely as a reference, however. It is something that will surely be worn out as time goes on.

⭐Finding it an easier read than others I have thumbed through. This is not for the raw newbie to programming though. If you’ve never coded before – go get a beginner book on Javascript or something. Wish there were less command line examples. Who enjoys that? If you are not smart enough to download a decent tool, I really don’t want you coding my system…

⭐Oracle PL/SQL Programming is another of the high quality books that O’Reilly publishes. It covers everything you need to know from the initial description of PL/SQL all the way up to complex conditionals, procedures, functions, packages and application security. A handy tool for the Oracle toolbox.

⭐Amazon sais that this kindle book includes 11g features, but it does not! The kindle edition is the 4th edition, including 10g features.

⭐As expected, Steven Feurenstein offers an educational experience in this book that is informative as well as good reading. I received the book in excellent condition – and in a timely manner. Both the sales experience and the book itself exceed my expectations!

⭐As with the three previous editions, all of which I own, this book sets the standard for PL/SQL texts. Crammed with information, it provides a thorough and insightful reference and always has a place on my desk.

⭐Very up-to-date information and techniques on programming on Oracle environments. This book helps a lot as a learning guide as well as a reference.

⭐This is The Ultimate PL/SQL reference. Although the book isn’t written as a reference, it serves as a more useful reference than the Oracle documentation. This book will show you 99% of PL/SQL functionality, and 110% of what you need to know. Steven Feuerstein always manages to write at a level which is not dry like 99% of all tech books out there. What a refreshing perspective he has for PL/SQL.This book can be used for learning or refreshing on certain PL/SQL topics, but it isn’t the best layout for someone new to PL/SQL, who needs that hand holding step by step approach. For now, novices might want to choose another book to learn the ropes, then get this book to serve as their #1 reference after they know the basics.By the time I got through the first three chapters, I came across PL/SQL and SQL Plus functionality that I consider essential to the role of an Oracle developer, of which about half of my peers do not fully know. 95% of my peers, and their peers would learn multiple things they did not know before simply by reading through the first three chapters. Steven covers the majority of necessary “tribal knowledge” that an Oracle developer just needs to know here, before going into the more functional and applicable details in the rest of the text.The rest of the book is ordered in a fashion so that you can easily go straight to the functionality that you need to learn, refresh, or learn more about. If I need to brush up on triggers, exception handling, collections, etc., I simply jump to the chapter aptly named for each piece.The real brilliant part of Steven’s writing for these individual sections is that after he covers all of the details of a certain topic, Exception Handling, for instance, he provides well written suggestions on how to really apply this topic in the most appropriate manner, where most books would just leave the topic alone, after covering the “how-to”! After Steven explains all of the ins and outs of exception handling (which he does in a much more thorough fashion than all other documentation), he then goes on to teach you how to actually USE the tool he has explained. The exception handling chapter has sections on “Building an Effective Error Management Architecture” and “Making the Most of PL/SQL Error Management”. Instead of just showing his readers “How do I do that?”, he shows them How, and then proceeds to pour his expertise into the What, When, and Why of the subject.The sections explaining each “core” PL/SQL functionality are the most in depth explanations I have seen in any documentation, with code examples for literally every bullet point in the book. The code examples are all in anonymous blocks which can literally be copied and pasted into an IDE. There are also many more code examples not in the book that are available online in a zip file.Extra kudos to Steven for including sections on xml types and http data manipulation which are highly sought after skills in software development.My only complaint is that I wish there was a search-able PDF file of the book that came with it, like Oracle Press books have. If there was, I would use it for ALL PL/SQL questions that I usually “Google” for the answer. Even so, buying the book gives you a free 45 day access to safari online so you can search through this book there.Use this book often as your first PL/SQL reference, along with Feuerstein’s PL/SQL Best Practices book, and you will be better equipped than 95% of PL/SQL developers out there.If you are responsible for PL/SQL coding, this book needs to be on your desk. Period.

⭐Certainly seems to be one of the best books on this topic around. And the Kindle version could turn out to be much more convenient than the paper version.

⭐very good choice for anyone who wants to learn good PL/SQL programming. I suggest it without second thoughts. Yet another excellent Feuerstein book

⭐Good and well written book.

⭐Immer diese Qual, dass ich hier eine Mindestanzahl an Wörtern reinschreiben muss. Das ist garnicht nicht Anwenderfreundlich! Hier herscht Verbesserungsbedarf!!!

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