Oracle Web Applications: PL/SQL Developer's Introduction [New!] provides the jump-start Oracle developers need to make the transition from traditional programming to the development of useful Web applications for Oracle8i. Even readers who start out knowing nothing about HTML, PL/SQL, or Oracle's other tools will learn how to create simple Web applications in a matter of days. Sample chapter 1, Introduction, is online now.

Oracle Essentials: Oracle8 & Oracle8i [New!] is an ideal guide to the full scope of Oracle8 (the "object-relational database") and Oracle8i (the "Internet database"). It covers overall system products, architecture, and data structures; installation, management, security, networking, backup and recovery, and tuning issues; and specific technologies such as data warehouses, online transaction processing (OLTP), distributed systems, high availability, Oracle8 and Oracle8i extensions, and Oracle's interfaces to the Web. Sample chapter 7, Multiuser Concurrency, is available online now.

Written by Oracle guru Steven Feuerstein, Oracle PL/SQL Programming Guide to Oracle8i Features [New!] will give you a jump start on the new PL/SQL features of Oracle8i (Oracle's revolutionary "Internet database"). It covers autonomous transactions, invoker rights, native dynamic SQL, bulk binds and collects, system-level database triggers, new built-in packages, fine-grained access control, calling Java methods from within PL/SQL, and much more. Sample chapter 4, Native Dynamic SQL in Oracle8i, is available online now.

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