Real World SQL and PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts

Introduction

While attempting to give you an idea into our original thinking behind the need for this book and why we wanted to write it, the words of Rod Stewart’s song “Sailing” kept popping into my mind: “We are sailing, we are sailing, home again ‘cross the sea.” This is because the idea for this book was born on a boat. Some call it a ship. Some call it a cruise ship. Whatever you want to call it, this book was born at the OUG Norway conference in March 2015. What makes the OUG Norway conference special is that it is held on a cruise ship that goes between Oslo in Norway and Kiel in Germany and back again. This means as a speaker and conference ...