Re: update statement PL/SQL

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:23:41 -0700
Message-ID: <1114795189.498711@yasure>

Paul wrote:

> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
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>>>Sorry, I may be confused here - am trying to learn PL/SQL. The book
>>>Learning Oracle PL/SQL by Bill Pribyl with Steven Feuerstein makes use
>>>of cursors - what's so bad about them?

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> Thanks for taking the time to explain. I will keep and study this post
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> I'm now getting onto the O'Reilly book "Oracle PL/SQL Programming" by
> Feuerstein (good?). With that and a couple of books by Kyte (Effective
> Oracle by Design, and Expert One on One).
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> If I had a good mastery of these texts, could I assume that I have a
> reasonable standard of Oracle programming - I am a Delphi programmer
> who is trying to make the move to Oracle - Delphi market appears to be
> dying (at least here in Ireland). I had an Oracle opportunity a few
> years ago, and have been kicking myself for the last two at least.
> (Though the TOAD is written in Delphi!!).
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> Paul...

Take a good look at the date on Steven's book. I can't imagine he would give the same advice today.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Fri Apr 29 2005 - 12:23:41 CDT