Design Feature-Rich PL/SQL ApplicationsDeliver dynamic, client/server PL/SQL applications with expert guidance from an Oracle programming professional. With full coverage of the latest features and tools, Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming lays out each topic alongside detailed explanations, cut-and-paste syntax examples, and real-world case studies. Access and modify database information, construct powerful PL/SQL statements, execute effective queries...

The only Oracle Press guide to MySQL Workbench explains how to design and model MySQL databases.MySQL Workbench Data Modeling and Development helps developers learn how to effectively use this powerful product for database modeling, reverse engineering, and interaction with the database without writing SQL statements. MySQL Workbench is a graphical user interface that can be used to create and maintain MySQL databases without coding. The book covers the interface and exp...

Trusted advice on successful consulting from the authors of the bestselling Guerrilla Marketing seriesConsulting is entering the era of the guerrilla client-buyers with a glut of information at their fingertips and doubts about the value consultants add. Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants is the first book to reveal how guerrilla marketing can transform today's challenges into golden opportunities for winning profitable work from the new breed of consulting clients. Packed with inf...

Throughout history, people have been fascinated by the seductive allure of vampires. We read about them in books, watch stories about them on television and in movies -- but do we know all there is to know about them? Of course not. These creatures of the shadows have kept their most shocking secrets hidden . . . until now."Dracula Transformed & Other Bloodthirsty Tales" features eleven vampire stories by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin and Bram Stoker Award finali...

The mage uprising has been put down, but it wasn't enough. Dragons have become aware that humans can arm themselves with weapons deadly to even dragonkind.Dragons are living in fear of humans for the first time in living memory, and they hate it.The war has arrived. Lord Boneclaw will lead the armies of dragonkind to decimate humanity. Their aim is to slaughter billions, thus bringing the threat back under control.Only one thing stands in their path...

The worst day of Eric's life was capped off by him being kicked through a gateway into a universe filled with magic and monsters.To make matters worse, he had to fight for his life the moment he arrived. Nothing could have prepared him for a world where everything either wants to kill him or eat him.Or both.Eric never saw himself as a hero. But the world he's been cast into needs one badly.It looks like he's going to have to fill th...

Kylara and her friends are back at the Lumos School, but Cassandra still holds her mother prisoner, and Ky will stop at nothing to rescue her.The School's mission is to help dragons and mages train their magic and learn new powers. But when an experimental trip to the pixie realm goes awry, a student ends up with a new magic that's as powerful as it is disturbing.And when that student loses control, everything is at risk.But Kylara is growi...

Charles has returned to a land devastated by war with the wraiths.Alone in a desolate land, seeking his friends and allies, he faces one peril after another.But finding his allies is only the beginning of the journey.A wraith queen has invaded Kortall, her legions wiping all life from the land. Worse, she's awoken ancient magics which will allow her to bring an even greater flood of wraiths across the dimensional barrier.If she's no...

Legend says that all dragons have a mother, a goddess-dragon named Tiamat.But few dragons take those old stories seriously these days. It's been too long since anyone saw Tiamat. Her tale has faded into myth.A cult of her followers still remains, though. These dragons believe that someday, a dragon will rise who is the sum of all dragons, with the powers of every dragon. When that dragon comes, Tiamat will be close behind.Kylara knows nothing of...

After millennia of slumber, the goddess-dragon named Tiamat has returned to Earth.Her first move is to consolidate her power by taking down the Dragon Council. Her next? Well, complete world domination seems like it's on the menu.Kylara barely survived her first encounter with Tiamat. Only thanks to her friends and allies did she escape at all.She'd rather do just about anything than face this foe a second time. But she's the only one who's...

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...

Plymouth Blitz recounts the deadliest civilian incident in Plymouth during the Second World War, when a German bomb struck the Portland Square Air Raid Shelter. Through eyewitness accounts and archival research, this book captures the courage, fear, and resilience of ordinary people living under the threat of aerial attack.On the night of 22–23 April 1941, as the German Luftwaffe descended on Plymouth, families from Portland Square and Victoria Street sought refuge in the ...