Expert One-on-One Oracle
Tom Kyte is of a rare breed. To begin, he's technically expert  in his subject (administration of and development of applications for  Oracle database management systems). What's more (and what  distinguishes him from the ranks of the super-competent), he is both  able and willing to share his considerable store of wisdom with Oracle  users via books likeExpert One on One: Oracle. Perhaps the best  book about Oracle products ever put out, this book is a model of all  aspects of technical publishing: scope, level of detail, clarity of  explanations, and quality of examples. It's pretty much certain that  you will learn a great deal about Oracle from Kyte's work, and that  you'll become more capable in your work as a result of studying this  book.Kyte--it's very tempting to call him an Oracle oracle--seems  not to have had to struggle to fit his message into the Wrox Press  form, which relies on a running commentary interspersed with code  listings and conceptual diagrams. Kyte's commentary is eminently  informed and packed with references to the differences between that  which is ideal and that which often must be done to accommodate  reality. He takes care to explain how little-known pieces of the Oracle  environment--and alternative ways of looking at the more familiar  ones--solve problems, an approach that leads to elegant, efficient  solutions. Kyte boosts his readers across the chasm that separates  people who can write applications for Oracle databases from people whounderstandOracle databases.--David WallTopics covered:Deep wisdom on developing applications for  Oracle database management systems, as well as plenty of advice on  designing and administering them. There are sections on general design  and implementation practices, application architecture, locking and  concurrency, transactions and rollbacks, importing and exporting, and  lots more of interest to developers.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.