Appropriate for beginning to intermediate courses in Oracle SQL.
Fully updated and expanded for Oracle 9i, this integrated book-and-Web learning solution is designed to help students master SQL on Oracle Systems as quickly as possible. Its unique workbook-based pedagogy incorporates hands-on, real-world labs, exercises, and projects, as well as an outstanding Web-based training site containing “Test Your Thinking” project solutions and detailed explanations, an Author's Corner that connects students with the book's expert author; additional self-review exercises with instant feedback and explanations; and an exclusive Virtual Study Lounge where students can interact with each other. The book's coverage includes every fundamental SQL concept, skill, and technique, including entity-relationship diagrams, SQL*Plus, SELECT and other statements, Boolean operations, functions, pseudocolumns, joins, complex joins, subqueries, relational operators, DML, DQL, DDL, and the Oracle Data Dictionary.
ALICE RISCHERT chairs the Database Application Development and Design track at the Computer Technology and Application Program at Columbia University. She has taught Oracle SQL to hundreds of students and has presented at Oracle conferences. Rischert has worked with Oracle for over 10 years and currently consults on large Oracle data warehouse and system integration projects.
Foreword by Peter Koletze