Steven Feuerstein eBooks

Oracle8i, the long-awaited "Internet database" from Oracle Corporation, has hit the streets running--and you may find yourself struggling to keep up with Oracle's fast-moving technology. Oracle boasts that Oracle8i offers more than 150 new features, many of them designed to make its popular database programming language, PL/SQL, faster, more powerful, and easier to use.This concise and engaging book is both a companion to Oracle PL/SQL Programming (widely recognized as the "bible" for PL/SQL developers) and a guide designed to bring you up to speed as quickly as possible on the new PL/SQL features of Oracle8i. Following the style of Feuerstein's earlier books, the Guide to Oracle8i Features combines easy-to-understand descriptions...

The implementation of stored procedures in MySql 5.0 a huge milestone -- one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption of the already extremely popular MySql database. If you are serious about building the web-based database applications of the future, you need to get up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work -- and how to build them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of stored procedure development, is a resource that no real MySql programmer can afford to do without. In the decade since MySql burst on the scene, it has become the dominant open source database, with capabilities and performance rivaling those of commercial Rdbms offerings like Oracle and Sql Server. Along with Linux and Php, MySql is at the h...