# Hardcover: 1328 pages
# Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (April 22, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590595254
# ISBN-13: 978-1590595251
Tom Kyte is of a rare breed. To begin, he’s technically expert in his subject (administration of and development of applications for Oracle database management systems). What’s more (and what distinguishes him from the ranks of the super-competent), he is both able and willing to share his considerable store of wisdom with Oracle users via books like Expert One on One: Oracle. Perhaps the best book about Oracle products ever put out, this book is a model of all aspects of technical publishing: scope, level of detail, clarity of explanations, and quality of examples. It’s pretty much certain that you will learn a great deal about Oracle from Kyte’s work, and that you’ll become more capable in your work as a result of studying this book.
Kyte–it’s very tempting to call him an Oracle oracle–seems not to have had to struggle to fit his message into the Wrox Press form, which relies on a running commentary interspersed with code listings and conceptual diagrams. Kyte’s commentary is eminently informed and packed with references to the differences between that which is ideal and that which often must be done to accommodate reality. He takes care to explain how little-known pieces of the Oracle environment–and alternative ways of looking at the more familiar ones–solve problems, an approach that leads to elegant, efficient solutions. Kyte boosts his readers across the chasm that separates people who can write applications for Oracle databases from people who understand Oracle databases. –David Wall
Topics covered: Deep wisdom on developing applications for Oracle database management systems, as well as plenty of advice on designing and administering them. There are sections on general design and implementation practices, application architecture, locking and concurrency, transactions and rollbacks, importing and exporting, and lots more of interest to developers. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
This special signature edition includes a CD that contains a searchable PDF version of the book and a sample chapter from the forthcoming 10g edition which will be released in fall 2005.
This remains the defining book on the older 8i Oracle database if you are a developer or DBA who works with Oracle-driven database applications. You will encounter wisdom on designing, developing, and administering these applications from one of the world’s foremost Oracle experts, Thomas Kyte.
The book covers every important feature and function of the 8i version of Oracle, and it is unique in the technical depth and insight that it provides on each topic. This book will show you how to expertly program with the database and exploit its feature set effectively. The result: you will build fast, effective, scalable, and secure Oracle applications.
