Product Description

This book covers everything you need to know to master Web application development in an Oracle environment - using PL/SQL. It is packed with practical tips that save the reader time, effort and frustration while developing and deploying Internet-ready, e-commerce applications using Oracle 9i. The book also provides important information on core topics such as HTML, Java, XML, WML, Perl and PHP, as well as covering various maintenance duties, such as troubleshooting, debugging, indexing, testing and site analysis. As Oracle's premier tool for building store procedures, PL/SQL uniquely supplements the standard relational database language, SQL, with the features needed to build real-world applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #727648 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 745 pages

From the Back Cover

The hands-on, rapid-mastery guide to Oracle PL/SQL Web development.

• Start building Oracle 9i PL/SQL Web applications—hands on
• Covers the entire development lifecycle, from design to deployment
• Provides instruction for PL/SQL Server Pages, the PL/SQL Web Toolkit, and the Oracle 9i Application Server
• Introduces Web basics—HTML, JavaScript, basic UNIX and FTP, and image handling
• Reviews PL/SQL and SQL concepts
• Includes practical tips and troubleshooting help

Leverage your SQL and PL/SQL experience to build powerful data-driven Web and e-business applications—starting right now! In this book, a team of Columbia University PL/SQL instructors cover the core pieces of what you need to know, from preliminary configuration to deployment of dynamic, data-driven applications. You'll find practical examples, hands-on exercises, and dozens of practical tips and solutions designed to save you time, effort, and frustration. One step at a time, discover how to:

• Configure Oracle's Internet Application Server
• Control Web applications and servers remotely
• Build Oracle Web applications with PL/SQL
• Create dynamic, data-driven pages
• Test, debug, troubleshoot, and deploy your applications
• Maintain and optimize running Web applications

Whether you've been writing simple queries or complex PL/SQL code, this book takes your database development skills onto the Web—and into the future!

About the Author

SUSAN BOARDMAN, Lead Software Engineer for IntraSphere Technologies, specializes in using PL/SQL to build intranet Web applications. She has extensive experience with retail systems, back-end processing, and university applications.

SOLOMON MORSE, Senior Consultant for Net Quotient Consulting Group in New York City, specializes in designing and developing database-integrated e-business Web applications. He has developed Web applications for cutting-edge e-journals as well as for Fortune 500 companies.

MELANIE CAFFREY is an Oracle consultant in New York City, providing front-end and back-end Oracle solutions to numerous clients. She is co-author of the Oracle DBA Interactive Workbook and Oracle Database Administration: The Complete Video Course.

BENJAMIN ROSENZWEIG is an Integration Specialist at IQ Financial Systems. Prior to that he was a principal consultant for 3 1/2 years at Oracle Corporation in the Custom Development Department. He has a wide range of computer experience from creating an electronic Tibetan-English Dictionary in Kathmandu, Nepal, to supporting presentations centers at Goldman Sachs and managing a trading system at TIAA-CREF.

The authors are all members of the faculty at Columbia University School of Continuing Education.

Customer Reviews

It does exactly what it says in the tin!
For any PL/SQL developer who is starting to embrace the world of web development and has sweated blood trying to digest Oracle's own on-line documentation, this is a very good buy. Not only does it show you two ways to use Oracle PL/SQL to develop web sites but it also gives a pretty good grounding in the basics of web development from HTML, Javascript, cookies, etc. Even the section on Basic SQL introduces a few new features for Oracle 9i, in support of ANSI SQL-99. Proving that even the most experienced PL/SQL developers can learn something new from reading it.

It might not change the world for some of my web savvy colleagues, but for those of us who know PL/SQL very well but are relative web novices, it is right on the ticket.