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Title: Quite revealing and very helpful
Review: Having just completed Bales' book, I found that it provided answers to a number of things that were previously only "fuzzy" in my knowledge in terms of applying the JDBC to the Oracle world. His explanation of the different forms of connections clarified quite a lot.Likewise, the numerous references to the "thin driver" and the banchmark figures revealing that it was either close to or exceeded the performance of the OCI driver was another eye opener (and enhanced the portability of my Oracle/JDBC code).The examples are all comprehensible and they really do work. It's obvious the author thought these through and tested them.The only drawback (and it's covered by the author in the preface) is that examples and pathing presume a Windows platform -- in spite of his preference for Unix. That can be forgiven..and it only cost a single star in this review. :-)
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