The Best of Oracle PL/SQL - One-day training in Orlando, FL

I will head down to Florida in December (ah, what a hardship!) to do a one-day version of my "best of" course on PL/SQL. Here is the general description below. Click here for more information and to register.

Over its lifetime, PL/SQL has grown increasingly robust and complex. Many programmers are barely aware of the new capabilities of  PL/SQL, much less fully understand the implications for their programs. And virtually all PL/SQL developers are too pressured by deadlines to have the time to think through the best way to apply PL/SQL's many features.

This one-day seminar teaches attendees about the most important features of the PL/SQL language. Steven then takes you beyond the basics to show you how to apply these features in the context of best practices, so that you can and will write highly optimized and easily maintained and enhanced applications.

After attending this seminar, you will be ready and able to:

• Improve query and DML performance by an order of magnitude or more with BULK COLLECT, FORALL and PL/SQL collections (array-like structures).

• Unit test your PL/SQL subprograms like never before, utilizing the processes and tools Steven offers in his "six simple steps to unit testing happiness."

• Optimize the construction of your SQL statements in PL/SQL programs, both from the standpoint of performance and maintainability.

• Build modular, reusable code: Steven will show you how to take advantage of packages, local subprogram units, cursor variables, autonomous transactions, and more to craft small, reusable units of code.

• Manage errors by following a standard, consistent process for handling, raising, and reporting errors. 

• Apply collections (a critical but under-utilized data structure) to solve a wide variety of problems, from slow query performance to mutating table trigger errors.