One of the only Oracle books to focus exclusively on database programming rather than administration Oracle owns sixty percent of the commercial database market Provides full coverage of the latest Oracle version, 10gincluding new features such as regular expressions and the MODEL SQL clauseas well as versions 8, 8i, and 9i The authors are wellknown as Oracle gurusGreenwald is the author of Oracle in a Nutshell and the coauthor, with Stackowiak, of Oracle 9 Essentials Shows how to use Oracle data and data structures to build robust, scalable database applications using Java, SQL, and PL/SQL