The Oracle SQL*Plus product has introduced some new features that have long been missing from this utility program, and some to support the new features. Here's a rundown of the new features in Oracle ...

Read this chapter while sitting at your computer and try out the examples shown. Before beginning, make sure you have access to the sample tables described. To begin using SQL*Plus, you must first ...

Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax to ...