* Written in the friendly, easy-to-understand style of the For Dummies series, this book shows novice PL/SQL programmers how to use PL/SQL, the procedural progr... » 

* Written in the friendly, easy-to-understand style of the For Dummies series, this book shows novice PL/SQL programmers how to use PL/SQL, the procedural programming language embedded in Oracle, to develop Oracle applications
* Experienced Oracle programmers and project managers will also benefit from the best practices and code and naming standards material in the book
* Discusses getting started with PL/SQL (including language fundamentals, program control, exception handling, and packages); Oracle-specific programming topics (Oracle constructs of interest to PL/SQL developers, code-placement option, and more); and advanced PL/SQL (manipulating strings, manipulating dates, and manipulating numbers, among others)
* All of the code in the book is provided on the author's company Web site (www.dulcian.com) «