Press Release
October 28, 1998
New Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference from O'Reilly
SEBASTOPOL, CA--
Oracle PL/SQL
Built-ins Pocket Reference
is the perfect companion to Steven Feuerstein's bestselling books
Oracle PL/SQL
Programming and
Oracle Built-in
Packages.
This pocket reference provides quick-reference information
about Oracle's extensive set of PL/SQL built-in functions and
packages, including those new to Oracle8.
Built-in functions operate on certain types of data to return a result;
they include several categories: character, date, numeric, conversion,
LOB (large object), and miscellaneous functions. Functions are
described in detail in Steven Feuerstein's
Oracle PL/SQL
Programming;
this comprehensive guide to building applications with PL/SQL has
become the bible for PL/SQL developers who have raved about its
completeness, readability, and practicality.
Built-in packages (collections of PL/SQL objects) greatly expand the
scope of the PL/SQL language-for example, DBMS_SQL executes
dynamically constructed SQL statements and PL/SQL blocks. These
packages are described in detail in Feuerstein's book (coauthored with
Charles Dye and John Beresniewicz),
Oracle Built-in
Packages.
Oracle PL/SQL
Built-ins Pocket Reference
contains highly useful
summary information for the PL/SQL built-in functions and packages
in an easy-to-access format.. It also shows how to call the built-in functions
and packages. For packages, it shows the RESTRICT REFERENCES
pragmas (needed if you call packages from a SQL statement), as well
as the exceptions, constants, and data structures defined in the packages.
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Oracle PL/SQL
Built-ins Pocket Reference
By Steven Feuerstein, John Beresniewicz & Chip Dawes
1st Edition October 1998
80 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-456-8, $6.95
Oracle PL/SQL
Programming
By Steven Feuerstein with Bill Pribyl
2nd Edition September 1997
1,028 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-335-9; $46.95
Oracle Built-in
Packages
By Steven Feuerstein, Charles Dye & John Beresniewicz
1st Edition April 1998
956 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-375-8; $46.95
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