EXPERT ONE ON ONE ORACLE: Suggested Alternative: ISBN 1590595254 (The Expert's Voice) - Softcover

* A proven best-seller by the most recognized Oracle expert in the world.

* The best Oracle book ever written. It defines what Oracle really is, and why it is so powerful.

* Inspired by the thousands of questions Tom has answered on his http://asktom.oracle.com site. It tackles the problems that developers and DBAs struggle with every day.

* Provides everything you need to know to program correctly with the database and exploit its feature-set effectively.

Thomas Kyte is vice president of the Core Technologies Group at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.0.9 was released in 1993. Kyte, however, has been working with Oracle since version 5.1.5c. At Oracle, Kyte works with the Oracle database, and more specifically, he helps clients who are using the Oracle database and works directly with them specifying and building their systems or rebuilding and tuning them. Prior to working at Oracle, Kyte was a systems integrator who built large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications for military and government clients.Tom Kyte is the same "Ask Tom" whose column appears in Oracle Magazine, where he answers questions about the Oracle database and tools that developers and database administrators struggle with every day.