Oracle PL/SQL Interactive Workbook

• Build Oracle PL/SQL applications—now.
• Fully updated for Oracle 9i
• No Oracle PL/SQL experience necessary.
• Real-life labs and "Test Your Thinking" Q&As

Start developing applications with Oracle PL/SQL—fast. This integrated book-and-Web learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands on, through real-world labs, exercises, projects, and a complete Web-based training site. Completely updated for Oracle 9i, it covers all the fundamentals—and a whole lot more. Master PL/SQL syntax, iterative and conditional control, scoping, anchored datatypes, cursors, triggers, security, tables, and packaging—plus powerful new techniques for working with exceptions, cursors, collections, and records. Your free Web-based training module includes a Virtual Study Lounge where you can interact with other learners, work on new projects, and get updates.

Totally integrated with a FREE, state-of-the-art Oracle 9i learning Web site.

Every Prentice Hall Oracle Interactive Workbook is fully integrated with its own exclusive Web site, giving you all this and more:

• "Test Your Thinking" project solutions and detailed explanations
• Additional self-review exercises with instant feedback and explanations
• An exclusive Virtual Study Lounge where you can interact with other students.

Just the facts. No endless, boring discussions here. You'll learn hands on through practical exercises, self-review questions, and real-world answers. Exclusive "Test Your Thinking" projects guarantee you'll go beyond rote knowledge to really master the subject. It's an integrated learning system that's proven to work.

Dozens of exercises cover the real-world tasks that matter most.

Hundreds of self-review questions and answers make sure you understand.

Oracle PL/SQL Interactive Workbook, Second Edition is the only integrated book-and-Web learning solution that teaches all the Oracle 9i PL/SQL skills you need, hands-on, through labs, exercises, projects, and a complete Web-based training site! Master syntax, iterative and conditional control, scoping, anchored datatypes, cursors, triggers, security, tables, packaging, exceptions, cursors, collections, records, and more. Free Web training module includes Virtual Study Lounge: interact with other learners, work on new projects, and get updates.

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Using a series of labs with examples and exercises, this guide introduces how to write programs in PL/SQL with discussion of syntax and structured programming, iterative control, scoping and anchored databases, cursors, triggers, security, tables, and packaging and parameter passing techniques. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

BENJAMIN ROSENZWEIG is an Integration Specialist at IQ Financial Systems. Prior to that he was a principal consultant for more than 3 years at Oracle Corporation in the Custom Development Department. His computer experience ranges from creating an electronic Tibetan-English Dictionary in Kathmandu, Nepal, to supporting presentations centers at Goldman Sachs and managing a trading system at TIAA-CREF. His previous Prentice Hall PTR publications include Oracle PL/SQL: The Complete Video Course and Oracle Forms Developer: The Complete Video Course.

ELENA SILVESTROVA, a senior software engineer for a prominent New York brokerage firm and securities dealer, has taught relational database programming in Columbia University's CTA program during the past four years. She studied analysis and design at Columbia University and applied mathematics at Baku State University in Azerbaijan.