High Performance Oracle8 Object-Oriented Design [With Contains an Evaluation of Platinum SQL-Station...]

Mr. Anstey has written a fantastic book. He compares and contrasts traditional RDBMS modeling to OBJECT modeling. This book should be in your library if you can even spell "ORACLE"!He also teaches the reader how to implement Objects using Oracle8 and all of its new features. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 4 that discussed modeling for Oracle's data types.The book is loaded with information tying the two methods together. I am a visual learner, and Mr. Anstey has at least 5 or 6 very detailed drawings to help the user "SEE" and understand what he is discussing.He even has one chapter devoted to tools used to design an Object database. Another powerful chapter is on Data Warehouses. He discusses bitmapped indexes, index-organized tables,the Partition Option, and Star Queries. Mr. Anstey covers all bases, even distributed systems using REPLICATION,the SQL3 Standard, planning your Oracle8 databases to take advantage of the Object features, and the future trends of the Object technology.All in all, a WONDERFUL book written by an author with a great technical sense of both technologies. Both thumbs up Mr. Anstey!

This was just the book I was looking for! A well written, easy to read, technical book written for Oracle relational technicians and designers who want to advance into the object-relational and object oriented paradigm. Interspersed with elucidating diagrams and SQL syntax, the book gives the reader a high comfort level with the new Oracle 8 constructs such as Varrays, nested tables and methods. The author introduces each contstruct, clearly explains them, and then presents ideas as to how to apply them in business applications. In later chapters, after overall data base design is discussed, chapters are dedicated to method design, a discussion on available design tools, UML, Oracle 8 and data warehousing, SQL3. Once finished, the book leaves the reader with an excellent handle on Oracle 8 and how to design data bases in that environment.

This is the first book that I have seen that explains the issues involved when using objects within Oracle. Object-orientation can be very confusing, and Anstey has done an excellent job of explain these concepts in plain English.