Skip to Main Content
Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, 2nd Edition
book

Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, 2nd Edition

by Steven Feuerstein
October 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
292 pages
8h 38m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, 2nd Edition

Chapter 1. The Big Picture

Are you happy with the quality of the code you write? Probably not, or you wouldn’t be reading this book! This doesn’t mean that you are a “bad” programmer. It means only that you feel that your code has room for improvement—and I’m sure that’s true for every single programmer among us.

I believe that you can dramatically improve the quality of your code by following programming best practices. Two very interesting concepts are implicit in that term:

  • It is possible to talk about a “best” way of writing code, which implies, conversely, that there is a worst or at least suboptimal way to write code.

  • These “best” ways can be organized into “practices,” formalized processes for writing high-quality software.

After having written software (and books about writing software) for almost 30 years, I am firmly convinced that these two concepts are both valid and fundamentally important, and that you can’t have one without the other.

Humanity survived its first worldwide software crisis on January 1, 2000—but at a cost of several hundred billion dollars. Users of software, unfortunately, continue to experience localized software crises on a daily basis, as they struggle with poorly written applications that are a direct consequence of the QUAD “methodology” (QUick And Dirty).

Software has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life of billions of human beings. It can—with the help of robotics—automate tedious and dangerous processes. It can make information ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Jonathan Gennick
Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition

Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition

Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl
Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 5th Edition

Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 5th Edition

Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780596514105Supplemental ContentErrata Page