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Title: Advanced Oracle Pl/SQL: Programming With Packages (Nutshell Handbook) by Steven Feuerstein ISBN: 1-56592-238-7 Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Clearly written with good examples; not a reference work
Comment: The book is structured around a set of packages called PL/Vision. Eighty percent of the book is devoted to describing how to use PL/Vision and what it can do. PL/Vision is a useful set of tools; the P package in particular will be useful to any developer, though most will have already written something similar (though maybe not so fancy) for themselves. P is a packaged version of the dbms_output routines, and allows formatted output, debug output and other similar facilities.

However, the book is not really a reference for Oracle packages. Most of what you need as a reference can be found in Feuerstein's "Oracle PL/SQL Programming", which I recommend. This book is more to give you an idea of what you can do with packages. I found it interesting, but I rarely refer to it--the other Feuerstein book is so comprehensive it covers almost all my questions.

Rating: 4
Summary: Well written with good examples; NOT a reference work
Comment: Steven Feuerstein's first book, Oracle PL/SQL Programming, has become the classic reference to PL/SQL. This one looks thoroughly at one especially advanced and powerful part of the PL/SQL language -- the package but it will not become a classic reference, instead some people might think it was a marketing ploy :-), as it is structured around a set of packages called PL/Vision...But all in all, Steve presents a nice organized approach for an application (development) environment...so it will be a keeper

Rating: 4
Summary: Needs more info about Packages in general..
Comment: I like this book but it could have been better if it dealt with PL/Vision alot less and about Oracle Package construction in general alot more. The book is more of a 30-70% split in favor of PL/Vision. It was very helpful, but it seemed like an ad for the writer's software at times.

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