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Title: Oracle Built in Packages by Steven Feuerstein, Charles Dye, John Beresniewicz ISBN: 1-56592-375-8 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Reference
Comment: This serves as a good reference book. Saved lot of time many, many times. I bought this book 2+ yrs ago and still helps me out. But I think this book needs a major update. Oracle8i is a new beast altogether (I didn't work with 9i yet) and there are tons of new built-in packages that are very useful.
Rating: 2
Summary: 25% useful, 75% Promotion of Author's products
Comment: I code and teach a lot of PL/QL, and this is the only book I have found which goes into any depth on these built-ins. It tells me most everything I want to know. However, you have to dig through tons of sample code from his PL/SQL products. In most cases, you won't find a clear example of the Oracle built-in packages (you know, the ones the book is supposed to be about?). Instead, there are huge, unneccesarily complex examples of how to use the author's bloated code (which is for sale, btw).
There is no doubt he is the foremost author on PL/SQL, but it's not worth digging through the junk and arrogance. To quote the back cover:
"I work with built-in packages every day, and nobody kicks sand in my face-- at least when it comes to PL/SQL!" Given the amount of his own code he buried them under, I doubt he ever even *sees* the Oracle built-ins anymore.
We have used his other books as texts for professional training, and the students have the same complaints. They are better than the manuals which come with Oracle, but not by much. (If you want a good PL/SQL book, check out Oracle PL/SQL Programming by Scott Urman. Doesn't cover built-ins much, but its far better than the Feuerstein PL/SQL or Advanced PL/SQL books).
Summary: Better than the manuals, if you like searching for needles in haystacks.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent source for advanced PL/SQL development
Comment: This book is absolutely necessary to get oriented in Oracle documentation. It covers PL/SQL packages that are of major interest both for application developers and those of us who want to automate DBA functions. Wonderful writing and excellent code samples are very helpful!
Some examples of DBA-related packages are DBMS_SQL which takes care of dynamic SQL (chapter 2) and DBMS_JOB for cron-type PL/SQL scripts.
Chapter 3 covers DBMS_PIPE and DBMS_ALERT packages necessary to implement servers running inside Oracle independently from host operating system.
Chapter 6 describes DBMS_OUTPUT and UTL_FILE. DMS_OUTPUT is well-known for its put_line procedure which prints short (up to 256 bytes) strings to SQLPLUS console. However, from this book one can find out how to increase standard overall output size for this package - which may be crucial for testing. UTL_FILE takes care of ASCII file I/O for PL/SQL.
Considering Large Objects management (chapter 8), we remember this is 1998 book, it does not cover latest Oracle object-related features like types or collections. Now ASCII documents (such as news articles) can be kept in VARARRAYs rather than in CLOBs.
ORACLE BUILT-IN PACKAGES is more of a reference than a tutorial, it leaves for the reader to find out what functionality is actually needed and for what technical purpose.
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Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition by Steven Feuerstein ISBN: 0596003811 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook by Steven Feuerstein ISBN: 1565926749 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices by Steven Feuerstein ISBN: 0596001215 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Advanced Oracle Pl/SQL: Programming With Packages by Steven Feuerstein ISBN: 1565922387 Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
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Title: Oracle SQL*Loader: The Definitive Guide by Jonathan Gennick, Sanjay Mishra ISBN: 1565929489 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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