Oracle is the most popular relational database management system in the world. It runs virtually on every platform from mainframes to minicomputers, PCs to Macintoshes, etc. It functions almost identically in all these machines, making Oracle one of the most portable and popular software systems.
Oracle documentation is very comprehensive but voluminous. There are more than 50 volumes and manuals. Finding the information one wants from this ‘Library’ is a time consuming and tedious task. There are a number of books which teaches the fundamentals of database management systems, fundamentals of Oracle, Oracle’s powerful querying tools, networking in oracle, Oracle Performance Tuning, Oracle database administration, etc. But there are not many books, which covers all these areas in a single volume. The Oracle: The Complete Reference is intended to fill this void. It covers all the relevant topics and to the required level of detail. There are no frills, bells and whistles. This is a book that every Oracle user and developer will find very useful and handy.
And most important, the CD, which accompanies this book, contains this entire book. This immensely help those who are mobile workers, in that they can keep the actual book at home and carry the Electronic Edition of the book on their Notebook.
This book is written with the objective to provide comprehensive and thorough coverage of the subject, make the book a single point reference, which the user will always want, by his side. So this book is for the end user and the developer, for the designer and the programmer, for the novice and the experts.
Book Details:
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Author(s): George Koch & Kevin Loney
Publisher: Oracle Press
Edition & Year: Book & CD-ROM Edition, 1997
ISBN: 0078822858
Cover & Page Count: Paperback, 1136 pages
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