Tabla de Contenidos: “…INTEGER, SMALLINT, FLOAT, DOUBLE, and BYTEINTZONED; DECIMAL; VARGRAPHIC; VARCHAR; VARRAW; LONG VARRAW; Loading from Fixed-Width Files; Common Datatypes Encountered; Specifying Field Positions; Starting and Ending Position; Starting Position and Length; Field Type and Length; Handling Anomalous Data; Trimming Whitespace; The PRESERVE BLANKS clause; Selective trimming of whitespace; Dealing with Nulls; SQL*Loader's default behavior; The effect of PRESERVE BLANKS; NULLIF; DEFAULTIF; Dealing with "Short" Records; Database Column Defaults; Concatenating Records; CONCATENATE; CONCATENATE syntax…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Discovering SQL; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: DROWNING IN DATA, DYING OF THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE; Data Deluge and Informational Overload; Database Management Systems (DBMSs); Storage Capacity; Number of Users; Security; Performance; Scalability; Costs; Recording Data; Oral Records; Pictures; Written Records; Printed Word; All of the Above; Analog versus Digital Data; To Store or Not to Store?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Object-Oriented Programming in Java -- Overview of Classes and Records -- Basic OO Definitions -- Records -- Other Reference Types…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Putting the type checker to work -- Checking function calls -- Checking function definitions -- Disambiguating overloaded functions -- Inferring types -- Combining functions -- Calling functions from within functions -- Naming intermediate results -- Local function definitions -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Answers -- Chapter 2: Algebraic Datatypes -- Enumerations -- A game of rock-paper-scissors -- Don't-care patterns -- Booleans revisited -- Records -- People -- Named fields -- Nested records -- Full-blown algebraic datatypes -- Shapes -- Cards -- Showing cards…”