Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-258) and index.
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1. The Big Picture -- Successful Applications Are Never an Accident -- Best Practices for Successful Applications -- 2. Real Developers Follow Standards -- Best Practices for Developing and Using Standards -- 3. Life After Compilation -- Testing, Tracing, and Debugging -- Best Practices for Testing, Tracing, and Debugging -- 4. What's Code Without Variables? -- Best Practices for Declaring Variables and Data Structures -- Best Practices for Using Variables and Data Structures -- Best Practices for Declaring and Using Package Variables -- 5. Developer As Traffic Cop -- Best Practices for Conditional and Boolean Logic -- Best Practices for Loop Processing -- Best Practices for Branching Logic -- 6. Doing the Right Thing When Stuff Goes Wrong -- Best Practices for Understanding Error Handling -- Best Practices for Nitty-Gritty, Everyday Exception Programming -- Best Practices for Coding Defensively -- 7. Break Your Addiction to SQL -- SQL is Bad! -- General SQL Best Practices -- Best Practices for Querying Data from PL/SQL -- Best Practices for Changing Data from PL/SQL -- Best Practices for Dynamic SQL -- 8. Playing with Blocks (of Code) -- Best Practices for Parameters -- Best Practices for Procedures and Functions -- Best Practices for Packages -- Best Practices for Triggers -- 9. My Code Runs Faster Than Your Code -- Best Practices for Finding Slow Code -- Best Practices for High-Impact Tuning -- Best Practices for Other Tuning -- A. Best Practices Quick Reference -- B. Resources for PL/SQL Developers.
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"This book summarizes PL/SQL best practices in nine major categories: overall PL/SQL application development; programming standards; program testing, tracing, and debugging; variables and data structures; control logic; error handling; the sue of SQL in PL/SQL; building procedures, functions, packages, triggers; and overall program performance"--Cover.