C H A P T E R 2
Dynamic SQL: Handling the Unknown
For the past ten years, I have attended a number of Oracle conferences all over the United States. Time after time, I have listened to presenters talking about building systems “better, faster, cheaper” But when these same people come down off the stage and discuss the same issues with you one-on-one, the message is much less optimistic. The often cited 75% failure rate of all major IT projects is still a reality. Adding in the cases of “failures declared successes” (i.e. nobody was brave enough to admit the wrongdoing), it becomes even more clear that there is a crisis in our contemporary software development process.
For the purposes of this chapter, I will assume that ...
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