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 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.
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.
"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."
--Dwayne King, President, KRIDAN Consulting
