New Book By Oracle Insider helps with Web-Enabled Applications PL/SQL is a popular procedural language for creating high performance applications that are Web-enabled and integrated with a relational database, such as Oracle. An extension of industry standard SQL (Structured Query Language), PL/SQL is a valuable tool for manipulating data both internally within an Oracle database and externally for applications. Plus, PL/SQL has enterprise level scalability and follows a robust security model Given the language's use and importance in the Oracle community, Oracle Press is pleased to announce a new book designed to be both a user's guide and reference to PL/SQL: Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming, by Scott Urman (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072121467, $49.99, 777 pages). Scott Urman is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Diagnostics and Defect Resolution team in Oracle's Server Technologies Division, and has written two previous Oracle Press books on PL/SQL which have sold more than 115,000 copies combined: Oracle PL/SQL Programming (1996) and Oracle8 PL/SQL Programming (1997). Unlike its two predecessors, Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming focuseson the advanced usage of PL/SQL and includes coverage on all the new features of Oracle8i. The first part of the book briefly introduces PL/SQL and the environments in which it runs, and describes some of the major features of the language. Later, the book delves into seven different techniques for debugging applications, enhancing and adding new material to the debugging sections of previous editions. Overall, Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming covers packages, triggers, dynamic SQL, external routines, objects, and collections. A discussion of the most commonly used supplied packages is also included. Plus, Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming comes with a content-packed CD-ROM that contains online versions of all of the examples in the book, electronic-only versions of some chapters, and trial versions of five different development tools from four different vendors. These tools include: TOAD and SQL Navigator from Quest Software; SQL Programmer IXfrom Sylvain Faust International; Rapid SQL from Embarcadero Technologies;and XPEDITER/SQL from Compuware Corp. This CD- ROM offers programmers a rare centralized location for comparing a variety of tools at once anddetermining which work best for their needs. AUTHOR SCOTT URMAN is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Diagnosticsand Defect Resolution (DDR) team in Oracle's Server Technologies Division.He currently focuses on JDBC, and has worked with both PL/SQL and OCI.Prior to joining DDR, he was a Senior Analyst in the Languages division of Oracle Support Services, focusing on all of Oracle's language tools. He is also the best-selling author of Oracle8 PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Programming (both from Oracle Press). ORACLE CORPORATION (http://www.oracle.com/ Osborne/McGraw-Hill's ORACLE PRESS (http://www.osborne.com), headquartered in Berkeley, California, is a leading publisher of computer books that include user and reference guides; best-selling series on computer certification; high level but practical titles on networking, communication, and programming; and the hottest titles on new web development tools. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/0072121467/thedesignpublishA/ Sent in by: Company Contact Web Design, Business, Internet, Web, ISP, graphics utilities, html, - 5/29/00 Back to the Topic Index