Steven Feuerstein Books

The authors have revised and updated this bestseller to include both the Oracle8i and new Oracle9i Internet-savvy database products.

In this compact guide, Steven Feuerstein, a leading expert on Oracle PL/SQL, shares his extensive experience in programming, teaching, and writing about PL/SQL through a set of best practices for successful application development. This edition, updated for Oracle Database 11gR2, mirrors the style of his bestselling work and is structured in a problem/solution format. It follows the programming journeys of developers at a fictional company, My Flimsy Excuse, Inc., showcasing their coding challenges and learning experiences. The book addresses key questions faced by PL/SQL developers, such as optimal SQL logic implementation, effective package writing for team use, and consistent error handling across programs. It summarizes best practices across nine categories, including overall application development, programming standards, testing, variables, control logic, error handling, SQL usage, and performance. This concise and engaging resource is essential for PL/SQL developers seeking to enhance code quality and application success. It emphasizes practical scenarios that clarify the rationale behind the rules, making it a must-read for Oracle database professionals.

Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, this text offers extensive exercises in all skill levels covering major features of the language. Also provides a primer to the PL/SQL language.

A complete reference to all of the built-ins, including the new packages available with Oracle8, this book provides extensive examples and comes with a disk containing an online tool developed by RevealNet, Inc., that provides point-and-click access to the many files of source code and online documentation developed by the authors.

The latest edition of this classic reference has been updated to cover Oracle Database 10g. Among the Oracle 10g features examined include regular expression support, native compilation, and new datatypes. The book also includes discussions on language syntax, how to build real applications, and how to apply best practices. Written by the world's foremost PL/SQL authority, Steven Feuerstein.

This pocket reference condenses the most vital information from Oracle PL/SQL programming into an accessible quick reference that summarizes the basics of PL/SQL - block structure, fundamental language elements, data structures, control statements, and use of procedures, functions and packages.

This book is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available. Like its predecessors, this fifth edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using Oracle's powerful procedural language. Thoroughly updated for Oracle Database 11g Release 2, this edition reveals new PL/SQL features and provides extensive code samples, ranging from simple examples to complex and complete applications, in the book and on the companion website. This indispensable reference for both novices and experienced Oracle programmers will help you: Get PL/SQL programs up and running quickly, with clear instructions for executing, tracing, testing, debugging, and managing PL/SQL code Optimize PL/SQL performance with the aid of a brand-new chapter in the fifth edition Explore datatypes, conditional and sequential control statements, loops, exception handling, security features, globalization and localization issues, and the PL/SQL architecture Understand and use new Oracle Database 11g features, including the edition-based redefinition capability, the function result cache, the new CONTINUE statement, fine-grained dependency tracking, sequences in PL/SQL expressions, supertype invocation from subtypes, and enhancements to native compilation, triggers, and dynamic SQL Use new Oracle Database 11g tools and techniques such as PL/Scope, the PL/SQL hierarchical profiler, and the SecureFiles technology for large objects Build modular PL/SQL applications using procedures, functions, triggers, and packages