Reviews for Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming: Develop Robust, Database-Driven PL/SQL Applications (Osborne Oracle Press Series)

1. It is not what its title says

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, April 12th, 2010

   I read earlier verion(9i) of PL/SQL Oracle Press book and found much better than this one. It will not recommend this book to anybody. Language concepts like overloading etc. not explained in detail. Also book language to explain concept is not well organized

2. ok but quite dry and hard to read...a reference rather than a tutorial

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2010

   I bought this book along with Oracle PL/SQL Programming - Paperback (22 Aug 2005) by Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl. I ended up returning this one. There is nothing drastically wrong with it. It's just that I am new to plsql and wanted something good to use as a tutorial. I found this book very, very dry. It is really a reference work rather than an introduction. I found the other book had a much stronger narrative voice and was easier to read. Also it contained much more information about how to use up SqlPlus, etc, which this book does not contain at all.
   As a reference it seemed pretty comprehensive though.

3. Useful stuff - but needs an errata

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, June 12th, 2009

   I'm using this as a revision aid for exam 1Z0-147 which I'm taking in a week's time. I'm still reading it, and have found a lot of the content useful so far, but whilst struggling through chapter 7 (collections) I felt compelled to take a second to complain about how badly written and just plain wrong some of it is. There's a lot of repetition, and in places it looks like text or code examples are copied-and-pasted and not changed to reflect their new subject.
   e.g
   p.225
   "Nested Tables"
   "Like varrays, nested tables are single-dimensional structures of Oracle 11g SQL or PL/SQL datatypes. You can use them table [sic], record, and object definitions and access them in SQL and PL/SQL. You can also use nested tables in table, record, and object definitions. They are accessible in both SQL and PL/SQL."
   
   I had a look on the Osborne web site but couldn't find any sort of errata anywhere.