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Oracle Tips by Burleson |
Maximizing your Learning
This book is designed to be a high-level
introduction to PL/SQL. There are many advanced capabilities of PL/SQL that
exceed the scope of this book, but the good news is that they are all
built on the programming foundations covered in this book. To
maximize your learning you should work the examples, and all the
examples in this book were developed using TextPad, a text
application like Windows’ notepad. There is no need to use a
development environment to learn PL/SQL and in teaching PL/SQL over
the years, we have found that development environments such as
JDeveloper or Toad tend to confuse the new PL/SQL developer. Once you
begin developing application, you will find these tools valuable
assets. The examples in this book were tested against Oracle and
Oracle10g and the new free Oracle XE database.
The examples used in this book use a small
training database called PUBS. The following two sections discuss
installing the PUBS database and using SQL*Plus. If you
started with the book Easy Oracle SQL, you already have the
PUBS database installed and know how to use SQL*Plus. You
may want to jump to the section titled PL/SQL Basic Structures in this
chapter. Let’s take a closer look at the PUBS database.
The above book excerpt is from:
Easy Oracle PL/SQL Programming
Get Started
Fast with Working PL/SQL Code Examples
ISBN 0-9759135-7-3
John Garmany
http://www.rampant-books.com/book_2005_1_easy_plsql.htm
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