Product Description: This book describes how the Oracle RDBMS arrives at an Execution Plan. This book covers useful tools useful for working with SQL and Explain Plans. This book is current to Oracle11r2.

Explores the interactive environment used for Oracle development and administration, covering topics including features, menus, defaults, shortcut keys, and SQL tuning.

Describes the features and functions of Oracle SQL Developer, covering such topics as creating database connections, building SQL objects, inserting data into the SQL worksheet interface, and exporting object definitions.

Product Description: Learn the ins and outs of the Oracle9i development environment from product installation to advanced management configuration. Oracle 9i Development by Example provides coverage of everything from building, monitoring, and tuning an Oracle9i database to building forms and reports using developer 6i to understanding newer tools such as Log Miner in an easy to learn format...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide for novice developers demonstrates relational database design principles, covering Oracle Developer 6.0, Oracle Jdeveloper 3.0, and Oracle Web Server 3.0 in addition to database administration and application troubleshooting techniques. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Written by experienced Oracle developers, Oracle Unleashed teaches you how to build complex and sophisticated applications from start to finish using the newest features of Oracle8i, including SQLJ, JavaBeans, CORBA, and the Java Virtual Machine...read more

Covers system architecture, data structures, installation, management, security, networking, backup, recovery, and troubleshooting (view table of contents)