
# One of the only Oracle books to focus exclusively on database programming rather than administration
# Oracle owns sixty percent of the commercial database market
# Provides full coverage of the latest Oracle version, 10g-including new features such as regular expressions and the MODEL SQL clause-as well as versions 8, 8i, and 9i
# The authors are well-known as Oracle gurus-Greenwald is the author of Oracle in a Nutshell and the coauthor, with Stackowiak, of Oracle 9 Essentials
# Shows how to use Oracle data and data structures to build robust, scalable database applications using Java, SQL, and PL/SQL