The best lesson I learnt from Steve McConnell

I was made aware of the book Code Complete by Steve McConnell almost by accident. I was attending an Oracle presentation back in 2001 and the presenter, Steven Feuerstein mentioned the book. I can’t remember what context it was mentioned in but I remembered I had to get a copy. Reading the first edition of Code […]

Instrumenting your PL/SQL code

Introduction As an exceptional Oracle Developer you already know the value of instrumenting your code. You have read enough of Tom Kyte, Cary Millsap & Steve McConnell to understand that with the correct instrumentation diagnosing problems especially time critical problems (are there any others?) becomes much easier. So the question is not why you should instrument your […]

What are my favourite Oracle books? and why?

This post was inspired by a comment on Martin Windlake’s blog. I am an Oracle Developer who actually likes reading technical books, not only about Oracle technologies but also the wider Software Development world. (Does that put me in a minority?) As a self taught programmer I have read many Oracle books since I started working […]