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Informationen zum Autor Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language. He is the author or coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Features, Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook, Oracle Built-in Packages, Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages, and several pocket reference books (all from O'Reilly & Associates). Steven is a Senior Technology Advisor with Quest Software, has been developing software since 1980, and worked for Oracle Corporation from 1987 to 1992. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Summarizes PL/SQL practices in nine categories such as 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication;Preface; Why Best Practices?; The Cast of Characters; Structure of This Book; How to Use This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; About the Code; Comments and Questions; Safari Books Online; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: The Big Picture; 1.1 Successful Applications Are Never an Accident; 1.2 Best Practices for Successful Applications; 1.3 Software is like ballet: choreograph the moves or end up with a mess.; 1.4 Deferred satisfaction is a required emotion for best practices.; 1.5 Contracts work for the real world; why not software, too?; 1.6 Don't act like a bird: admit weakness and ignorance.; 1.7 Five heads are better than one.; 1.8 Don't write code that a machine could write for you instead.; 1.9 We need more than brains to write software.;Chapter 2: Real Developers Follow Standards; 2.1 Best Practices for Developing and Using Standards; 2.2 It's a free country; I don't have to use carriage ...
