{"product_id":"9780596551520","title":"Oracle PL\/SQL Best Practices: Write the Best PL\/SQL Code of Your Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eOracle PL\/SQL Programming\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers practical answers to some of the hardest questions faced by PL\/SQL developers, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is the best way to write the SQL logic in my application code?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow should I write my packages so they can be leveraged by my entire team of developers?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow can I make sure that all my team's programs handle and record errors consistently?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cem\u003eOracle PL\/SQL Best Practices\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Dwayne King, President, KRIDAN Consulting","brand":"O'Reilly Media, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173115019504,"sku":"9780596551520","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780596551520_p0.jpg?v=1763724025","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780596551520","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}