ISBN: 9788184045413    Publisher: O'reilly Year of publishing: 2010     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 308        Language: English

In this compact book, Steven Feuerstein, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, distills his many years of programming, teaching and writing about PL/SQL into a set of best practices-recommendations for developing successful applications. Covering the latest Oracle release, Oracle Database 11g, Feuerstein has rewritten this new edition in the style of his bestselling Oracle PL/SQL Programming. The text is organized in a problem/solution format and chronicles the programming exploits of developers at a mythical company called My Flimsy Excuse, Inc., as they write code, make mistakes and learn from those mistakes-and each other. This book offers practical answers to some of the hardest questions faced by PL/SQL developers, including: What is the best way to write the SQL logic in my application code?. How should I write my packages so they can be leveraged by my entire team of developers?. How can I make sure that all my team's programs handle and record errors consistently?. Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices summarizes PL/SQL best practices in nine major categories: overall PL/SQL application development, programming standards, program testing, tracing and debugging; variables and data structures; control logic, error handling, the use of SQL in PL/SQL building procedures, functions, packages and triggers and overall program performance.
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Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, having written ten books on PL/SQL, including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices (all from O'Reilly Media). Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle (1987-1992) and serves as PL/SQL Evangelist for Quest Software. His Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices column is one of the more popular destinations on the Oracle Technology Network and he writes regularly for Oracle Magazine. Steven believes that unit testing is one of the most critical challenges facing PL/SQL developers and has been developing Quest Code Tester for Oracle to meet that challenge.
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