Book description
Master the Underutilized Advanced Features of SQL and PL/SQL
This hands-on guide from Oracle Press shows how to fully exploit lesser known but extremely useful SQL and PL/SQL features―and how to effectively use both languages together. Written by a team of Oracle ACE Directors, Real-World SQL and PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts features best practices, detailed examples, and insider tips that clearly demonstrate how to write, troubleshoot, and implement code for a wide variety of practical applications. The book thoroughly explains underutilized SQL and PL/SQL functions and lays out essential development strategies. Data modeling, advanced analytics, database security, secure coding, and administration are covered in complete detail.
Learn how to:
• Apply advanced SQL and PL/SQL tools and techniques
• Understand SQL and PL/SQL functionality and determine when to use which language
• Develop accurate data models and implement business logic
• Run PL/SQL in SQL and integrate complex datasets
• Handle PL/SQL instrumenting and profiling
• Use Oracle Advanced Analytics and Oracle R Enterprise
• Build and execute predictive queries
• Secure your data using encryption, hashing, redaction, and masking
• Defend against SQL injection and other code-based attacks
• Work with Oracle Virtual Private Database
Code examples in the book are available for download at www.MHProfessional.com.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I The Importance of SQL, PL/SQL, and a Good Data Model
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PART II Underutilized Advanced SQL Functionality
- 3 Handling Advanced and Complex Data Sets
- 4 Regular Expressions
- 5 Edition-Based Redefinition
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PART III Essential Everyday Advanced PL/SQL
- 6 Running PL/SQL from SQL
- 7 Instrumenting and Profiling PL/SQL
- 8 Dynamic SQL
- 9 PL/SQL for Automation and Administration
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PART IV Advanced Analytics
- 10 In-Database Data Mining Using Oracle Data Mining
- 11 Oracle R Enterprise
- 12 Predictive Queries in Oracle 12c
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PART V Database Security
- 13 Redaction and Masking
- 14 Encryption and Hashing
- 15 SQL Injection and Code Security
- 16 Fine Grained Access Control and Application Contexts
- Index
Product information
- Title: Real World SQL and PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2016
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9781259640988
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