Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices: Write the Best PL/SQL Code of Your Life

Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices: Write the Best PL/SQL Code of Your Life

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<div><p>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 11gR2, Feuerstein has rewritten this new edition in the style of his bestselling <em>Oracle PL/SQL Programming</em>. 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.<br/><br/>This book offers practical answers to some of the hardest questions faced by PL/SQL developers, including:</p><ul><li>What is the best way to write the SQL logic in my application code?</li><br/><br/><li>How should I write my packages so they can be leveraged by my entire team of developers?</li><br/><br/><li>How can I make sure that all my team's programs handle and record errors consistently?</li></ul><em>Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices</em> 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.<br/><br/>This book is a concise and entertaining guide that PL/SQL developers will turn to again and again as they seek out ways to write higher quality code and more successful applications.<br/><br/>"This book presents ideas that make the difference between a successful project and one that never gets off the ground. It goes beyond just listing a set of rules, and provides realistic scenarios that help the reader understand where the rules come from. This book should be required reading for any team of Oracle database professionals."<br/><br/>--Dwayne King, President, KRIDAN Consulting</div>