Table of Contents - Fall 1996

Vol. 2 No. 3

1996 Best Product Awards

Features

Climbing the Spiral to PL/SQL Excellence, Pt. 1
By Steven Feuerstein

Have you ever written a program, gotten it to compile the first time around, and found that it had no bugs? If your answer is yes, send us your resume. More often, code development is an iterative process; you must take multiple passes at a solution. In Part 1 of this two-part series, Steven helps you climb the code development spiral.

Oracle7's Job Queue Facility
By Suresh Aiyer

The Oracle7 job queue facility allows the execution of programs at specific dates and times. Suresh shows you why and how you should be using this standard but not-often-used facility to schedule your programs for periodic execution.

The Marriage of Object Oriented and Relational
By Dennis G. Cadena

Can traditional relational database design sufficiently support the pragmatic needs of an OO application and its business object model? Dennis guides you through a real-world banking application and proves that true happiness lies at the end of a bumpy road.

PG&E Restructures with Data Warehousing
By Stephen Schur

Over the next two years in California - one of the world's largest energy markets - deregulation will sweep the power utilities. In this article, Stephen explains how Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is implementing data warehousing in an attempt to maintain its leadership.

A Comprehensive Implementation of Conditional Logic Using SQL Expressions
By Curtis Copley

SQL doesn't let you use if-then-else statements?! Curtis shows you how to work around that nasty restriction using Oracle's decode function.

Departments

Input/Output By Kathleen O'Connor
Cyberlounges and dog-and-pony shows.

Advertiser Index
How to contact this issue's advertisers.

Add-Ons and Updates By Kathleen O'Connor
New product announcements.