Table of Contents - Winter 1996

Vol. 2 No. 4

Features

Object-Oriented Primer: An Oracle8 Preview
By Don Burleson

In anticipation of the release of Oracle8, Don provides you with a review of the principles and practices of object orientation and a sneak preview of some of the object-oriented features scheduled to ship with Oracle8.

Oracle Financial Analyzer: A Look Under the Hood
By William G. Brown

In this article, William reveals how you can develop Oracle Financial Analyzer applications faster and streamline ongoing system maintenance.

Climbing the Spiral to PL/SQL Excellence, Part 2
By Steven Feuerstein

In part one of this two-part series, Steven created a robust function called twice, which doubled any string passed to it. The twice function is finished - but only within its limited scope. Part 2 shows you how to create a new repeated function, which lets you perform any number of duplications, as specified by the user.

Getting the Most from the SQL_TRACE Facility
By Guy Harrison

The SQL_TRACE facility and the tkprof formatter are some of the most powerful tools for tuning SQL. Guy shows you how to use these tools to trace SQL calls generated by an Oracle application and analyze the execution plans and database resource usage.

Columns

PL/SQL Guru
By Steven Feuerstein

Even the simplest-sounding exercise can be very tricky and intimidating for a beginning PL/SQL developer. Our new columnist Steven Feuerstein shows you how he and his class of novice developers found the "perfect" loop.

Departments

Input/Output By Kathleen O'Connor
An Open World?

Advertiser Index
How to contact this issue's advertisers.

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