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Easy HTML-DB Oracle Application Express: Create Dynamic Web Pages with OAE (Easy Oracle...
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by Michael Cunningham, Kent Crotty, and Donald Burleson
Sales Rank: 331219
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List Price: $39.95
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Rampant Techpress April 15, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0976157314
ISBN-13: 978-0976157311
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Product Description
By removing the guesswork from Oracle HTML manipulation, this book shows working examples of complex HTML-DBA database access and techniques for creating easy HTML-DB applications. All HTML-DB concepts are described, and working examples of each HTML-DB feature are provided. Examples of HTML-DB data access and document formatting, information on how to update Oracle HTML-DB, and methods of customizing applications with Themes and CSS are also included.
About The Author
Michael Cunningham is a software engineer and Oracle DBA, and has worked as a technical consultant on applications such as insurance, and biological and chemical analysis. He lives in Napa Valley, California. Kent Crotty is an Oracle Certified DBA and IT professional with over 15 years experience in Programming/Analysis (developement) and Systems and Database Administration.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This is a good book for the new or beginner application express developer. It tells the reader lots of useful stuff and omits the more esoteric and advanced functionality. The authors approach is to tell the reader what they are going to show, why they are going to show it and how it may be useful in the wider context, then they go ahead and demonstrate it. Thus the relevance of the text is pretty good. I feel that the books is best read cover-to-cover (not necessarily working through the examples on the first pass) so that the reader can get a good feel for the product and to give a good insight on how application express can and should be used (at least by the beginning user) The book is easy to read and flows well. Throughout there are useful snippets, such as how to set the max length for a tabular form column; they are often presented almost as throw-away lines so are at times, in my opinion, a bit too easy to miss. In addition, you can find references to checkboxes and radio buttons in the index. I could not give the book 5 stars because I am uneasy about technical books which do not explicitly give readers the means to contact the authors or publishers with feedback. No wonder the errata for this book is empty. There are at least a dozen errors, mainly issues with spelling, grammar, layout and misleading explanations. Also, for some reason the authors departed from their usual approach when they wrote the section on collections. The detail presented looks useful, but it is presented with no reference to where and how it can be used practically.
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Easy HTML-DB Oracle Application Express: Create Dynamic Web Pages with OAE (Easy Oracle...
List Price: $39.95
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Price: $26.37
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