RE: Pl/SQL Book - Help a newbie! :)

Compared to Steven Feuerstein, I am nothing.

I continued to be amazed at the info he packed into that book.

Does he have an altar somewhere? (oh, maybe he will start to demand offerings of money, better not ask).

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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	Steve,

	Ha! You crack me up.

	When I saw 'Apotheosis', I immediately thought of The Tick.

	You know about The Tick movie?

	Jared


	On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Steve McClure wrote:



	> Run!  Do not walk to your bookstore and pick up a copy of Steven

	> Feuerstein's "Oracle PL/SQL Programming".  It is published by

O'Reilly &


	> Associates and stands out even among that publisher's titles.

	> 

	> I myself have a signed copy.

	> I asked him to sign "The Apotheosis of PL/SQL", but he declined

saying "How


	> about just my name?".  Well you can't blame a die hard "Tick" Fan

for


	> trying.

	> 

	> Steve McClure

	> 

	> 

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	> 

	> 

	> > Hi all,

	> >   I am new to the Oracle world.  I am pretty good with simple

queries,


	> basic

	> > joins, etc.  But I want to learn how to write stored procedures,

packages,


	> > functions, etc.  What do you all recommend as a good source to

learn how


	> to

	> > do this?  I can already read through a stored procedure that

someone else


	> > wrote and figure out what it is doing, but I couldn't write a

new one from


	> > scratch to save my life.  I want to learn these skills.

	> >

	> > Thanks!!!

	> >

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