Comments about oreilly Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 4th Edition:

I downloaded O'Reilly's electronic version of this book, and I have to add the eBook version is also worth it's weight in gold.

Not only is the information in this book incredibly useful to any Oracle developer, but the eBook version adds extra usefulness and portability on a Laptop or mobile device that makes it something you can have on hand at all times.

So once again... the eBook version? Literally worth its weight in pure gold. In fact, they should have called it Aurical PL/SQL Programming.

Comments about oreilly Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 4th Edition:

I have developed an application or two using PL/SQL (even used Oracle forms & Reports) but I learnt PL/SQL on the go by googling; never found the time to sit down and learn it from the scratch-from the very basics.

I was hoping that this book will add some basic and some advanced stuff to my knowledge *very quickly*; that was where I went wrong-it took quite some time and effort to finish it.

Pluses:

This book is worth its weight in gold; very clear very concise; lots of explanations and lots of code. An ideal companion for quick referencing while you are coding in PL/SQL. I had to spend a long time on the net once to understand how I/O and web based data is handled; I wish I had this book with me at that time.

Minuses:

This book is certainly not for beginners. At 1170 pages it’d mean a lot of information for somebody who has just started learning. There are some (actually a lot!) printing errors, even in the code that need to be taken care of.

Overall a great reference book from the God of PL/SQL.

Comments about oreilly Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 4th Edition:

This is an excellent book that I constantly used. This is well written with easy to follow examples. If you haven't bought this book then I recommend you buy this one.

Comments about oreilly Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 4th Edition:

It is not so often when i can read a book that is really useful in my every-developer-day.

For PL/SQL programmers it is really the 'MUST HAVE' book.

Every chapter is really full of useful informations and tips on the Oracle 10gR2.

It gives me a real new interest in going deeper into efficient PL/SQL development (a sincere thank you to S.Feuerstein for this major book).

Reading that book, i have also discovered other very useful tools (like Ounit and utPLSQL) developped by the author.

Until now, i was mainly focused on ORACLE PRESS BOOKS (considering that they were supposed to always be the best to provide useful informations to Oracle developpers).

Unfortunalely i discovered that most of the money i spent into Oracle Press books was not so profitable (the lastest Oracle PL/SQL 10g is a real shame compared to this book).

=> I had to spent lot of time trying to find solutions or simply practical explanation on Internet.

If i had only one remark to the author of the 'Oracle PL/SQL Programming' release 4, it would deal with the miss of a chapter for programming PLSQL/XML (as it is supposed to be the most useful format these days !!!) => i have not found a very practical book on that subject.