Designed to exploit Oracle 10g's SQL, this book takes a comprehensive look at Oracle 10g's analytical functions, MODEL statements, and regular expressions. In addition, Advanced SQL Functions in Oracle 10g covers collection objects and object-oriented structures and introduces new Oracle 10g topics such as XML and statistical functions. The authors' logical and developmental approach to query building includes a review of older Oracle tools to help in the transition to newer material.

This text will teach the reader how to:

• Format result sets with SQL*Plus reporting tools.
• Use aggregate functions for partitioning, ordering, and reporting.
• Perform calculations with the MODEL statement.
• Search within strings using regular expressions.
• Work with collection objects.
• Handle XML within SQL.