The Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference is a quick reference guide to the PL/SQL programming language, which provides procedural extensions to the SQL relational database language and a range of...
If you are going to build complex applications using PL /SQL, you will not succeed unless you learn about and figure out how to utilize many of the packages described in this book. Packages are the...
The Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference is a quick reference guide to the many built-in packages and functions provided by Oracle Corporation. The purpose of this pocket reference is to help...
Technical books can be boring. But this is not an ordinary technical book! This book is like an almanac, a news magazine, and a hypertext database rolled into one. Instead of trying to put the topics...
Learning the UNIX Operating System teaches the basic system utility commands to get you started with UNIX. Instead of overwhelming you with a lot of details, we want you to be comfortable in the UNIX...
This book is for Java programmers working with XML who need an efficient way of reading or generating XML documents. The simple API for XML (SAX)'s event-based approach provides an extremely...
The primary reason for this book, the second edition of sendmail , is the release of version 8.8 of the sendmail program. V8.8 sendmail differs so significantly from earlier versions that a complete...
This book deals with the new 8.1.2 version of BIND as well as the older 4.9 versions. While 8.1.2 is the most recent version as of this writing, it hasn't made its way into many vendors' versions of...
This book is a practical guide to building your own firewall. It provides step-by-step explanations of how to design and install a firewall at your site, and how to configure Internet services such as...
Samba is a suite of Unix applications that speak the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. Many operating systems, including Windows and OS/2, use SMB to perform client-server networking. By supporting...
This book is a practical guide to UNIX security. For users, we explain what computer security is, describe some of the dangers that you may face, and tell you how to keep your data safe and sound....
This book is for web developers, or anyone who works at the content end of the World Wide Web. Do you author or maintain web documents? Are you a programmer developing web-based client or server...
This book is of interest to system administrators and network managers who are installing or planning new NFS and NIS networks, or debugging and tuning existing networks and servers. It is also aimed...
The sendmail program is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA). It accepts mail from Mail User Agents (MUAs), mail users (humans), and other MTAs. It then delivers that mail to Mail Delivery Agents (MDAs) on...
Designing Web Audio is an audio resource guide for Internet professionals, designers, and developers, as well as for educators, musicians, producers, and audio enthusiasts.
This book is for everyone who works on the content end of the World Wide Web. Do you author or maintain Web documents? Do you work with CGI for creating fill-out forms? Are you a programmer developing...
As colour imaging takes on increasing importance in a range of products and technologies, colour fidelity across different media has become essential. This book has arisen from the need for a...