Interactive Workbooks

Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers is the hands-on, rapid-mastery guide to Oracle PL/SQL Web development. Learn the core pieces you need to know, from the basics of configuring the Oracle Internet Application Server to PL/SQL Server Pages and the PL/SQL Web Toolkit. The book covers testing, debugging, troubleshooting, deployment, and maintenance and contains practical examples, hands-on exercises, and dozens of practical tips from expert developers. Go to the Companion Website.

Java Database Development with Oracle is a hands-on book for Java developers who want to learn how use Oracle and integrate it with their Java applications. It assumes an intermediate knowledge of Java and no knowledge of Oracle. This book is segmented into three parts. Part One begins by investigating how and why databases relate to object-oriented programming with Java. Introductory chapters on the Oracle database, SQL and other Oracle features, including its object-relational support, lay the groundwork for the chapters that follow. Part Two presents thorough coverage of the essential Java technologies for database programming, with chapters on SQLJ, JDBC and JDO (Java Data Objects). Part Three takes a higher-level view of application architecture and considers the role of Oracle in enterprise applications, particularly with regard to EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) and the J2EE framework. Go to the Companion Website.

Oracle SQL Interactive Workbook, Second Edition is the only integrated book-and-Web learning solution that teaches all the Oracle 9i SQL skills you need, hands on, through labs, exercises, and projects-complete with a Web-based training site! Fully updated for Oracle 9i, author Alice Rischert covers all types of joins (including the new ANSI join syntax); SQL functions; subqueries set operators; sequences, views, and indexes; data dictionary; dynamic SQL; security; optimization; the SQL*Plus and iSQL*Plus environments; and much more. Go to the Companion Website.

Oracle PL/SQL Interactive Workbook, Second Edition is the only integrated book-and-Web learning solution that teaches all the Oracle 9i PL/SQL skills you need, hands-on, through labs, exercises, projects, and a complete Web-based training site! Master syntax, iterative and conditional control, scoping, anchored datatypes, cursors, triggers, security, tables, packaging, exceptions, cursors, collections, records, and more. Free Web training module includes Virtual Study Lounge: interact with other learners, work on new projects, and get updates. Go to the Companion Website.

Experience Oracle database administration now! This integrated book-and-Web learning solution teaches core Oracle DBA skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, exercises, Q&As, and a Web-based training site. You'll experience aspects of day-to-day Oracle database administration, including managing the database and its physical layout, ensuring security and data integrity, providing for backups, and more. Also available as part of Oracle Database Administration: The Complete Video Course. Go to the Companion Website.

New to Oracle development? This integrated book-and-Web learning solution will help you master Oracle SQL—fast! Learn every Oracle SQL skill you need, through hands-on, real-world labs, exercises, projects, and our great Web-based training site. Master entity-relationship diagrams, SQL*Plus, SELECT statements, Boolean operations, functions, joins, NULLS, subqueries, relational operators, data and database object manipulation, and the Oracle dictionary. Go to the Companion Website.

This integrated book-and-Web learning solution teaches all the Oracle Forms skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, exercises, projects, and our great Web-based training site! You'll master every Oracle Forms object, make the most of Forms Wizards, work with the Form Builder and Layout Editor-even build advanced applications that use triggers, multiple forms, and menus. Also available as part of Oracle Forms Developer: The Complete Video Course. Go to the Companion Website

This integrated book-and-Web learning solution will help you master PL/SQL syntax and structured programming, iterative control, scoping and anchored datatypes, cursors, triggers, security, tables-even sophisticated packaging and parameter passing techniques! Your free Web-based training module includes a Virtual Study Lounge where you can interact with the author, interactive Q&As, new projects, book updates, and more! Also available as part of Oracle PL/SQL: The Complete Video Course. Go to the Companion Website.

As a supplement to the workbook, you will find on the Companion Website for this text a self-grading "Practice Questions" module with multiple choice and true/false questions for you to answer. Go to the Companion Website.

The perfect hands-on Java course for absolute beginners: all the skills you need to get results, fast! Get Java up and running, start editing files, use the Java console, run Java applications and applets. Learn the basics of object-oriented programming through easy examples, analogies, and exercises. Then, master Java data types, control structures, basic Java graphical user interfaces, events, classes, inheritance, exceptions, error handling-even multimedia! Go to the Companion Website.

A+ Certification is hot-and this hands-on workbook will help any PC technician, administrator, or support professional get certified fast! Master every skill covered in both A+ exams through a series of real-life labs-with detailed introductions, practical exercises, and self-review questions. It's all here: motherboards, processors, memory, printers, notebooks, networking, file management, installation, configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, safety, preventive maintenance, even customer satisfaction! Go to the Companion Website

You already have the UNIX skills you need to survive; now, become a power user-fast! Here's the hands-on skill building you've been looking for! Make the most of UNIX email, ftp, and telnet; edit with Emacs, master archiving, and much more! Control your UNIX environment with custom startup files, shell scripts, and expert X configuration techniques. Master advanced file system management skills-even learn powerful vi techniques you won't find anywhere else! Go to the Companion Website

PERL Interactive Workbook is 100% focused on teaching the key skills you need to build rock-solid scripts and programs! No frills, no "phony" examples... just plenty of real-world code and hands-on exercises drawn from actual experience. Master PERL variables, branching, testing, loops, system control, files, output, functions-everything you need to get results, fast! Go to the Companion Website

Learn how to create, modify and delete user accounts; manage system startup and shutdown; enforce UNIX security, work with the Bourne, Korn and C Shells; handle backup and restore; and more-all the key tasks of day-to-day UNIX system administration! Go to the Companion Website

This hands-on workbook teaches you how to login and logout, set passwords, manage files and directories, and get help whenever you need it. Learn to use the UNIX vi editor, print and format text, and work with grep. Discover the X Windows graphical user interface-plus networks, the Internet, and more! Go to the Companion Website

Start with a hands-on introduction to regular expressions and grep-including egrep and fast grep. Learn key sed fundamentals: addressing, scripting, plus all the commands you'll need for substitution, deletion, printing, appending, listing, reading/writing, and more. Walk step-by-step through awk, writing simple programs, understanding data types, statements, expressions, patterns, actions, functions, control flow, arrays, and I/O-all you need to solve real-world problems! Go to the Companion Website.

Master UNIX shell programming now! Start with basic scripts and functions; then learn to execute internal and external commands; use control structures, token splitting, and environment and shell variables. Discover powerful techniques for parameter and command substitution; filename expansion and pattern matching; working with traps; I/O; testing; expression evaluation, and more. Whatever your experience, UNIX Shell Programmer's Interactive Workbook will transform you into a power shell programmer, fast! Go to the Companion Website.