Christopher Beck – författare

Do you need more from a PL/SQL book than just the correct keywords and some pretty syntax diagrams? Have you been searching in vain for real-world examples and genuine strategies for maximizing the benefits of PL/SQL within your organization? You''ll find them here in Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions, the inaugural title of the pioneering OakTable Press series from Apress.

This isn''t a tutorial on how to code PL/SQL. It''s designed to show you how to code PL/SQL well. It shows you how to write code that will run quickly and wont break in high-load, multiuser environments. It covers the vast array of the functionality that PL/SQL provides, including effective handling of relational and abstract data, security, triggers, dynamic web content presentation from within the database, creation of a DBA toolkit, and effective debugging techniques.

This book sets out to redress the unjust criticism leveled at PL/SQL in years gone by. It gives you the tools and techniques to ensure that, whatever your needs are, the PL/SQL you build will run as efficiently as possible. The practical solutions provided in this book will help you to realize the true power and functionality PL/SQL can offer your projects.

If you''re brand-new to PL/SQL, then you''ll want to take some time to get familiar with the language before tackling this book. It''s not for the total beginner. But once youre up and running, you''ll find this book an invaluable guide for ensuring that the PL/SQL solutions you build are robust, perform well, and are easy to maintain.

Elves with blasters!

It''s all true! Faeries, Elves and Angels; the gods and monsters of myth and legend are real, and living among us. There has been a war going on for a very long time between the Elder races of the Vansadagaadian Corridor and predatory forces of the Annunaki god Enlil and the Pandemonium. Humanity is caught in the middle.

Walter Ryan is an agent of the Melkizedek Order who has been given orders to track down an enemy named Graud. The mission leads him into the world of the Vansadagaadians and the Faerie tribes that protect humanity from the Pandemonium. From the Western Front of World War I to Noah''s Ark on Mount Ararat, then to 100 years later and a new global war against the ancient enemy, Walter and his family must fight both in the present and in the ancient past to defeat Graud and prevent the enslavement of the world.