I have developed an application or two using PL/SQL (even used Oracle forms & Reports) but I learnt PL/SQL on the go by googling; never found the time to sit down and learn it from the scratch-from the very basics.
I was hoping that this book will add some basic and some advanced stuff to my knowledge *very quickly*; that was where I went wrong-it took quite some time and effort to finish it.
Pluses:
This book is worth its weight in gold; very clear very concise; lots of explanations and lots of code. An ideal companion for quick referencing while you are coding in PL/SQL. I had to spend a long time on the net once to understand how I/O and web based data is handled; I wish I had this book with me at that time.
Minuses:
This book is certainly not for beginners. At 1170 pages it’d mean a lot of information for somebody who has just started learning. There are some (actually a lot!) printing errors, even in the code that need to be taken care of.
Overall a great reference book from the God of PL/SQL.
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