April 2001
Intermediate to advanced
204 pages
5h 10m
English
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Other Resources
This book is intended to complement numerous other resources for PL/SQL developers. It is, to my knowledge, the first collection of best practices specifically for the Oracle PL/SQL language. On the other hand, it doesn’t stand on its own as a comprehensive resource, either for PL/SQL, in particular, or for Oracle application development, in general.
What follows is by no means an exhaustive list of resources for developers. However, I find that a 15-page bibliography is more intimidating than it is helpful. So I offer this short list of the resources that I have recently found most useful and interesting:
- Code Complete by Steven McConnell (Microsoft Press)
A classic text, this “practical handbook of software criticism” should be on the bookshelf of every developer or at least in your team’s library. Chock-full of practical advice for constructing code, it shows examples in many languages, including Ada, which is enough like PL/SQL to make learning from McConnell a breeze. Don’t start coding without it! The web site for Steven McConnell’s consulting practice, http://www.construx.com, is also packed with lots of good advice.
- Refactoring by Martin Fowler (Addison Wesley)
According to this book, “refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it doesn’t alter the external of the code, yet improves its internal structure.” Sound great, or what? This excellent book uses Java as its example language, but the writing is clear and the Java straightforward. ...
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