One of the only Oracle books to focus exclusively on database programming rather than administrationOracle owns sixty percent of the commercial database marketProvides full coverage of the latest Oracle version, 10g-including new features such as regular expressions and the MODEL SQL clause-as well as versions 8, 8i, and 9iThe authors are well-known as Oracle gurus-Greenwald is the author of Oracle in a Nutshell and the coauthor, with Stackowiak, of Oracle 9 EssentialsShows how to use Oracle data and data structures to build robust, scalable database applications using Java, SQL, and PL/SQL