Re: Book for Beginner, Hierarchical documents....?

You might want to check out :

Oracle8 : The Complete Reference
By Koch, George / Loney, Kevin
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Hardcover; 1300 Pages
Published by Oracle Press
Date Published: 09/1997
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Chris (at) Huebner (dot) com

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 01:15:59 -0500, Josh Gough <exv_at_randomc.com> wrote:

>Hi, can anyone recommend a good book for learning Oracle 8, specifically
>if you can think of one that would help with the following kind of
>design. Already I know it will require working with triggers, sequences
>and procedures, especially to help me figure out how to build "auto
>incrementing" primary keys. I have read a little bit on this, but not
>much. I am ok on these, though could definitely learn much more. So I
>am pretty sure I need something which covers basic administration as
>well as design and PL/SQL topics. There are so many titles out there,
>just wondered if anyone could recommend one with which they have found
>success.
>
>I have to build a database that will store many hierarchical documents
>of a similar format, basically following this kind of pattern:
>
>Top Level Heading
> Sub Heading
> <textual content blah blah>
> Sub Heading 2
> <textual content..>
>Top Level Heading 2
> <textual contentsdfdsfdsf.............>
> Sub Heading
> <textual content......>
>
>My initial ideas on this is to have a table of "nodes" for all the
>possible Top Level Headings and Sub Headings. The Sub Headings would
>have a foreign key reference to the unique id of their parent Top Level
>Heading. Each of these headings, whether top or sub, may or not may not
>have "textual children" based on a boolean flag. The actual bulk of the
>database would thus consist of these items, residing in a "text-items"
>table.
>
>Ok, hope that made some sense!
>Thanks for any advice :)
>
>-Josh
>
>
>
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Received on Tue Dec 01 1998 - 00:04:49 CST