John Carnell Boeken

Includes a short story by Michael Moorcock, titled 'Flux'. This eight top-line SF stories in this selection have been chosen by John Carnell from the best of year's contributions to New World's Science Fiction. They include Colin Knapp's Lambda 1, which reaches spine-chilling dimensions when a spacecraft, packed with a thousand passengers, loses it capacity to re-enter a normal environment. In Quest, by Lee Harding, an ordinary man look for 'something real' in a world dominated by robots and megapolitan madness. The atomic submarine Taurus, in Philip E. High's Routine Exercise, returns to base with two dead men, minus its nuclear warheads, and fantastic report of attack by an unknown craft. "This is", the editor wrote, "a cross-section of recently popular British science-fiction which has been well-liked by many thousands of readers in different countries of the world".

This is a book about putting Java to work in the Oracle database. It concentrates on real-world applications that developers can put to immediate use in their day-to-day jobs and, in addition, gives in-depth consideration to the question of when it is appropriate to use Java from a performance perspective (including benchmarks). The examples in the book clearly distinguish between situations Java can provide functionality that PL/SQL cannot. We exploit Java's capabilities for accessing system resources outside the database - such as operating system commands and network sockets. We also make use of powerful Java Utilities for messaging and generating graphics. For example, we develop an application whereby a pie chart image is generated from a query, and then automatically distributed to interested parties (using JavaMail) Java can be used to smoothly complement the programming capability of PL/SQL. An example here would be the use of PL/SQL packages to handle complex data types and schedule tasks in the database, in conjunction with the file transfer (FTP) or compression capabilities of Java. The book is divided into four Section I is a fast-paced Java tutorial for PL/SQL programmersSection II covers database access with JDBC and SQLJ and shows how to smoothly and correctly convert between Java and native SQL data typesSection III is the real heart of the book, where what has been learned is applied to practical problem solving with Java and PL/SQLSection IV takes a detailed look at performance issues. Having considered Java application tuning and SQL tuning separately, we take a detailed look behind the scenes of Java database access and try to illustrate how you should choose between Java and PL/SQL for database operations

New Writings in SF is a successful departure in the science fiction field, bringing to lovers of the genre brand new stories never before published—stories written especially for the series by a wide variety of authors.It is the next step forward in the exciting expansion of SF from the limitations it has suffered for the last thirty years and international authors have written for a far wider audience than ever before.New Writings in SF (of which this is the 11th volume) lives up to its name. The stories are NEW. The Editor encourages fresh methods and techniques of writing and the whole series is a stimulating and energetic approach to modern SF.Contents:Vincent King. The Wall to End the World. 1967John Rackham. Catharsis. 1967Lee Harding. Shock Treatment. 1967Dennis Etchison. Bright Are the Stars That Shine, Dark Is the Sky. 1967Douglas R. Mason. There Was This Fella.... 1967W.T. Webb. For What Purpose?. 1967Douglas R. Mason. Flight of a Plastic Bee. 1967H.A. Hargreaves. Dead to the World. 1967Jack Wodhams. The Helmet of Hades. 1967

Contents • David Stringer. High Eight. 1965• Colin Kapp. Hunger Over Sweet Waters. 1965• Dennis Etchison. The Country of the Strong. 1962• Dan Morgan. Parking Problem. 1965• Keith Roberts. Sub-Lim. 1965• William Tenn. Bernie the Faust. 1963• Isaac Asimov. Star Light. 1962

Contents • Douglas R. Mason. All Done By Mirrors. 1969• Colin Kapp. Getaway From Getawehi. 1969• Sydney J. Bounds. Throwback. 1969• Christopher Priest. The Perihelion Man. 1969• Michael G. Coney. R26/5/PSY and I. 1969• James White. Meatball. 1969