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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part II. Languages

This part of the book focuses on the syntax used to construct SQL statements and functions, PL/SQL programs, and Java interfaces to Oracle. It consists of the following chapters:

Chapter 7, summarizes the syntax of Oracle’s SQL (Structured Query Language).

Chapter 8, summarizes the syntax of the functions that may be called from SQL and PL/SQL.

Chapter 9, briefly describes the capabilities of Oracle’s procedural language and summarizes the syntax of all statements.

Chapter 10, lists the header specifications for all of the procedures and functions included in Oracle’s built-in packages, along with parameter descriptions.

Chapter 11, provides a summary of the Java interfaces to the Oracle database, including Java drivers available for Oracle, the mapping between Java datatypes and Oracle datatypes, and the syntax for the SQLJ and JDBC interfaces to Oracle.

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