Re: SQL (PL/SQL), Oracle Book Recommendations Needed

A good book on PL/SQL would be 'Oracle PL/SQL programming' by Feuerstein and Pribyl (O'Reilly).
I don't know what you expect from a book about SQL. If you are using Oracle SQL you better
use online documentation for your syntax. The SQL books I've read (in Dutch) cover only the
ISO87 SQL standard. Oracle has more extensions to SQL. I'm not sure if you realize that SQL
is a 4th Generation Language. You just ask what data you want and Oracle gets it from the database.
Knowing to build a good query is a matter of experience and not a matter of knowing your syntax.

Best regards

Alex Grutters

alex_at_amis.nl
or hanalex_at_worldonline.nl

Ki-Won Lee <kiwon_at_scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> wrote in article <6nkp0t$g1$1_at_scapa.cs.ualberta.ca>...
> Greetings!
>
> I'm about to take a database course in school and the textbook we're
going to use
> will not cover anything about SQL (PL/SQL) or Oracle, which are the
languages we
> must do our assignments in, but it'll just cover the "theory" of
database.
>
> Can some of you please recommend a book for a beginner who does have
programming
> experience, but is completely new to the query language? In particular,
I'd like
> some books on the above mentioned languages. The books I have looked at
in
> bookstores about SQL and Oracle don't seem to cover the syntax of the
langs too much
> at all, like, say K&R does for C or Stroustrup does for C++. Thank you
very much
> in advance!
>
> With Best,
>
> Steve
>
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Received on Sat Jul 04 1998 - 15:36:44 CEST