Customer Reviews

willowriverwalker said
I put a system into production last fall with .NET and Oracle. Wish I had this book nine months ago! Mark has good advice for someone new to Oracle, but familiar with .NET. I've gone back and tweaked the system based on Mark's recommendations. I'm happy.

netlearner said
I would like to have given this book a 5 stars
but the title is greatly over-exagerated for Pros

This is the first time I have accessed oracle for the first
time thru visual studio and the book has helped me overcome
that fear. The examples are clear and concise in its into
to oracle so even an idiot could pick it up.

I would like to see a book which extends more on real life examples. A drawback i would like to add about this book.
This book is TOO exepensive for a introductory book

I am thrilled that all the examples do work which was a MAJOR plus.

jherr said
From the title you would expect this to drill into some deep Oracle technical issues. It doesn't do that. It's a fairly screenshot intensive walkthrough of basic Oracle use in .NET. It starts with connectivity, information retrieval and manipulation. Then exception handling, stored procedures and large object operations. There is some coverage of performance issues.

There is a lot of good content here. It's well written and organized. The screenshots aren't overwhelming and the sample code is good. A good book on Oracle use in .NET, even if it is a little mis-titled.

Anonymous said
I was having some doubts about connecting to database in ASP page and this book helped cleared my doubts. If u want a book with samples that shows how to do common tasks u can find them in this book. If ur using vb then u need to download the samples cos the samples in the book are using c#.

Bye!

southlandplace said
Is it just me, that does not immediately see an overlap between Oracle and .NET? Historically, Oracle databases have tended to be installed on unix workstations (especially Solaris). And nowadays, on linux as well. But Williams points out that given the widespread presence of .NET, and that Oracle is the dominant database, then we should indeed have an important market intersection of the two.

Other books have described using C#/.NET with Microsoft's SQL Server. Not surprising, because Microsoft supplies all these parts. But this book is perhaps overdue, in filling a gap in the documentation of .NET and Oracle.

The exposition herre is logical, and not unlike some of those other books. (Cf. "SQL Server Query Performance Tuning Distilled" by Dam.) Except of course that you are shown how to optimise table design and complex queries for Oracle. Plus, Williams describes this for Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition - Oracle's latest flagship version.

The book uses C# as the programming language, since it seems to be the best supported "native" language of .NET.

In the development environment, he gives some simple GUIs to access the database. Done often in VB.NET or Microsoft Window Forms. Realistically, any GUIs for your work will be more intricate. But you get enough GUI framework code to get you started along these lines.