Database Systems Using Oracle A Simplified Guide to SQL & PL/SQL

This text on the Structured Query language and the Programming Language/Structured Query Language (PL/SQL) in Oracle version 8 or higher offers step-by-step instructions supplemented by hands-on examples, exercise questions, and lab activities. Two real-life running databases are used as models to explore database issues. Early chapters cover relational concepts and database design techniques, and later chapters concentrate of the primary nonprocedural relational database language SQL and the procedural language PL/SQL. Final chapters introduce the architecture and administration of Oracle 8. Shah teaches at the New Jersey campus of DeVry College of Technology and at Monroe College. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.