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Product Description: The ability to use transactions properly and efficiently in applications is a key skill for a programmer. This book discusses transactions and their use with .NET. With the merging of Microsoft's numerous technologies, transactions can be handled in a variety of ways...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Oracle Corporation has broadened its development platform, integrating open standards such as Java and XML into the heart of the Oracle 8i database. This extended programming environment continues to exploit the qualities of scalability, reliability and efficiency of the world's most successful data management software, but at the same time it provides new challenges and opportunities to programmers...read more

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