Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples

Gavin JT Powell · Carol McCullough-Dieter

Oct 2004 · Elsevier

About this eBook

Developers and DBAs use Oracle SQL coding on a daily basis, whether for application development, finding problems, fine-tuning solutions to those problems, or other critical DBA tasks. Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples is the fastest way to get started and to quickly locate answers to common (and uncommon) questions. It includes all the basic queries: filtering, sorting, operators, conditionals, pseudocolumns, single row functions, joins, grouping and summarizing, grouping functions, subqueries, composite queries, hierarchies, flashback queries, parallel queries, expressions and regular expressions, DML, datatypes (including collections), XML in Oracle, DDL for basic database objects such as tales, views and indexes, Oracle Partitioning, security, and finally PL/SQL.* Each of the hundreds of SQL code examples was tested on a working Oracle 10g database* Invaluable everyday tool that provides an absolute plethora of properly tested examples of Oracle SQL code* Authors have four decades of commercial experience between them as developers and database administrators

About the author

Gavin Powell, BSc. Comp.Sci., OCP (Oracle8i Certified Professional) has fifteen years of computer industry experience. Diverse experience in database administration and database development in both relational and object databases. Applications development experience is procedural and object-oriented. He also has some systems administration experience. His extensive consulting experience includes software vendors, internet .COM's (some unfortunately have met with their demise), accounting, banking, financial services, the travel industry, construction, retail, mining, shipping, education and general advisory capacity. Gavin Powell has worked with many software products, tools and programming languages. These tools include items in the list shown below. He has authored two successful books Oracle ...High performance Tuning and the just released Oracle SQLCarol McCullough-Dieter is a veteran database designer and trainer. She has written many books on Oracle including Oracle9i Database Administrator: Implementation and Administration. As an independent consultant for federal and state government projects in Wisconsin and Hawaii, she designed and implemented complex, secure, integrated web-based database systems. She has designed in-house and online training guides for Oracle SQL coding and performance tuning.