Overview
- Carries the endorsement of the OakTable Network, a highly-regarded, invitation-only, international group of experts on Oracle Database
- Coauthored by an expert who spent many years working at Oracle, who also was part of the international standards committee that designed the SQL language
- Now forms part of Apress's core roadmap for readers of Oracle Database topics
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
Beginning Oracle SQL is your introduction to the interactive query tools and specific dialect of SQL used with Oracle Database. The book is a revision of the classic Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus by Lex de Haan, and has been updated to cover developments in Oracle's version of the SQL query language. Written in an easygoing and example-based style, Beginning Oracle SQL is the book that will get you started down the path to successfully writing SQL statements and getting results from Oracle database.
- Takes an example-based approach, with clear and authoritative explanations
- Introduces both SQL and the query tools used to execute SQL statements
- Shows how to create tables, populate them with data, and then query that data to generate business results
Similar content being viewed by others
Table of contents (12 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
About the authors
Lex de Haan studied applied mathematics at the University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. His experience with Oracle goes back to the mid-1980s, version 4. He worked for Oracle Corporation from 1990 to 2004 in various education-related roles, ending up in Server Technologies (product development) as senior curriculum manager for the advanced database administration curriculum. In that role, he was involved in the development of Oracle9i and Oracle Database 10g. In March 2004, he decided to go independent and founded Natural Join B.V. (http://www.naturaljoin.nl). From 1999 until his passing in 2006, he was involved in the ISO SQL language standardization process, as a member of the Dutch national body. He was also one of the founding members of the OakTable network (http://www.oaktable.net).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Oracle SQL
Authors: Lex Haan, Daniel Fink, Tim Gorman, Inger Jørgensen, Karen Morton
Editors: Jonathan Gennick, Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes, Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Douglas Pundick, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft, Mat Wade, Tom Welsh, Jim Markham, … Seth Kline
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-7196-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Lex deHaan and Karen Morton and Tim Gorman and Inger Jorgensen and Daniel Fink and Andrew Morton 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-7197-0Published: 17 December 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-7196-3Published: 28 January 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 459
Topics: Database Management, Data Structures and Information Theory