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Title: Too verbose, and not very helpful
Review: I've hated this book. I am an experienced programmer, with little database experience. I like my technical books to be brief and to the point. I started reading the PL/SQL guide with a few simple questions: how can I write a stored procedure, what is a calling convention, where are they stored inside the DB. Skimming the book to find answers to these did not work, and the book was way too verbose (pages of common-sense stuff tangential to PL/SQL, such as "you should write as little code as possible", "Make comments easy to enter and maintain").If you are looking to get going quickly, Urman's book is much better.
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