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Author: StevenFeuersteinTW Created: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:47 AM
Life’s short and there’s more to it than coding. How can we change the way we write our programs so that we can spend less time in front of a screen and more time with family, friends and planet earth? Visit my blog for tasty, tight, tidbits of advice and code that you can put to immediate use in your world of programming.

Testing and refreshing data from production
StevenFeuersteinTW Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:21 AM
As many of my readers likely know by now, I have been working for the past several years on the Quest Code Tester development effort.
 
Code Tester is the most powerful PL/SQL test automation tool available. You describe the expected behavior of your programs and Code Tester generates your test code, which can then be run from the UI or via a script. With Code Teste ...
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Auto-formatting of templates for Toad
StevenFeuersteinTW Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:14 AM
A few months ago, I posted on this blog an explanation of how to use Toad's Code Templates to standardize development and improve productivity. I included an XML document that contains over 20 templates that I thought you might find useful. I also asked my readers to produce XML transformations so that the XML document could be "output" in the format that Toad recognizes (and SQL Navigator as ...
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Weird PL/SQL
StevenFeuersteinTW Monday, March 17, 2008 12:57 PM
 
Collaborate08, annual conference of the International Oracle User Group, and several other national and international user groups, will be held in Denver this year, from April 13th to the 16th. I am going to present three papers, including (for the first time) Weird PL/SQL. I thought you might enjoy reading about some of the weirdnesses of PL/S ...
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Just how popular is PL/SQL?
StevenFeuersteinTW Monday, February 04, 2008 11:56 AM
Just how popular is PL/SQL?
 
And how many PL/SQL developers are there "out there"?
 
These are surprisingly hard questions to answer. Officially and even unofficially, Oracle Corporation's point people on PL/S ...
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Functions should return data only through the RETURN clause
StevenFeuersteinTW Monday, January 07, 2008 2:46 PM
You will find below an excerpt from my latest publication: the 2nd edition of Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices.  This edition is a complete rewrite of the 1st edition. I decided that since software is still, for the most part, written by hu ...
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Single quotes and CLOBs in 10.2.0.3
StevenFeuersteinTW Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:41 PM

I usually write about best practice principles and general issues.

Today I thought I would share a bit of my pain with you on a very specific topic: single quotes and CLOBs, and specifically on O ...

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Error Management functions and features for PL/SQL Developers
StevenFeuersteinTW Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:41 PM
Winter is descending on Chicago; we had our first snow (flurries, really) on Thanksgiving Day, and the sun is weak. For many, this is a depressing time – and I mean that the lack of that and cold actually does make people feel depressed. Per ...
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My Favorite Templates – in one convenient file
StevenFeuersteinTW Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:24 PM

Would you like to increase productivity, improve code quality, and ensure that standards are being followed? Of course you would! And one of the best ways to do that is to rely heavily on Toad's Code Templates (similar functionality exists in SQL Navigator as well).

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Catching up with me at Oracle OpenWorld
StevenFeuersteinTW Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:13 AM
Sorry about the late posting, but if you are interested in attending my presentations, here's the info:

Session ID: S290723
Session Title: Break Your Addiction to ...

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An Exercise in Refactoring: Are two files equal?
StevenFeuersteinTW Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:50 AM

All files referenced in document available from: www.oracleplsqlprogramming. ...

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