Oracle Sql Recipes: A Problem-solution Approach

 CYAN   MAGENTA   YELLOW   BLACK   PANTONE 123 C Books for professionals by professionals ® Beginning DB2 Bob Bryla author of Beginning PHP and Oracle Darl Kuhn author of Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs Dear Reader, Oracle SQL Recipes is designed to feed your appetite for solutions to all manner of query problems working with data in Oracle. If you’ve ever struggled to report on data using SQL alone, or marveled at the elegant and skillful way some write SQL for Oracle to solve seemingly intractable problems, you’ll want to delve into this book, as it will show you the techniques for creating queries like a pro. Using this book, you’ll learn the many intricacies of SQL in Oracle, and the sheer power and features that are at your command to tackle problems as diverse as statistical modeling, multi-level financial reports, and even dynamically generating web pages directly from your database using just SQL. Each issue we tackle is presented in problem/solution format. First we state a problem to be solved. Then we show the solution in SQL. Lastly, we discuss in detail any caveats you need to know, as well as why the solution works. Oracle SQL Recipes is suitable for readers at any level of SQL proficiency, and includes recipes to expand the skills of SQL aficionados from beginner all the way through to seasoned experts. Whether you are a user of the data in an Oracle database, an application developer, or a DBA, there are topics in this book to cater to your needs. We’re excited to present you with this collection of recipes. As authors, we wrote this book to highlight the power and capability of SQL within Oracle, and how it can solve many of the problems that are often deemed too difficult to write outside of application code. Armed with the knowledge herein, you’ll master the latest and greatest Oracle database capabilities, and be improvising your own recipes in no time. We hope you find the recipes fit many of the real-world problems you encounter working with Oracle and SQL every day, and look forward to seeing the recipes you create from this inspiration. Grant Allen, Bob Bryla, Darl Kuhn Companion eBook Companion eBook Available Oracle SQL Recipes Grant Allen author of Oracle SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach The EXPERT’s VOIce ® in Oracle Oracle SQL Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach An example-based approach to solving common developer and administration problems with Oracle SQL THE APRESS ROADMAP See last page for details on $10 eBook version Oracle SQL Recipes Troubleshooting Oracle Performance )3".         US $49.99 Allen Bryla Kuhn www.apress.com Beginning Oracle SQL Grant Allen, Bob Bryla, Darl Kuhn Shelve in Databases/Oracle User level: Beginner–Advanced    this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = x.xxx" xxx page count  CYAN   MAGENTA   YELLOW   BLACK   PANTONE 123 C Books for professionals by professionals ® Beginning DB2 Bob Bryla author of Beginning PHP and Oracle Darl Kuhn author of Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs Dear Reader, Oracle SQL Recipes is designed to feed your appetite for solutions to all manner of query problems working with data in Oracle. If you’ve ever struggled to report on data using SQL alone, or marveled at the elegant and skillful way some write SQL for Oracle to solve seemingly intractable problems, you’ll want to delve into this book, as it will show you the techniques for creating queries like a pro. Using this book, you’ll learn the many intricacies of SQL in Oracle, and the sheer power and features that are at your command to tackle problems as diverse as statistica