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Book:   Oracle in a Nutshell
Subject:   Oracle in a Nutshell Review
Date:   2003-08-26 08:29:19
From:   Marc Grundfest
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

This book could use some improvement. Overall it is good but it fails to take into acccount that not all parts of oracle need to be included in a quick ref.


In particular it tends to ignore the bread and butter of pro-cobol proc


and odbc in favor of more trendy JDBC JSQL etc. This might be forgivable but to include very damn oracle package notwithstanding how likely they are to be usefull to an application programer is not. The book starts to look more like an oracle feature list for presales than a handbook to surive in the trenches. This makes the book far less usefull for me than I had hoped. I expect that I will keep looking for that handbook.