Oracle PL/SQL expert, evangelist, author and trainer
Areas of Expertise:
- PL/SQL
- Oracle
- stored procedures
- consulting
- speaking
- training
- writing
Biography
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Steven's blog posts are hosted at:
http://feuerthoughts.blogspot.com
http://www.toadworld.com/sf
http://feuerthoughts.blogspot.com
http://www.toadworld.com/sf
Doing SQL in PL/SQL: a key resource from Bryn Llewellyn
October 08 2008
One of the highlights of Oracle Open World 2008 for me was the presentation by Bryn Llewellyn (PL/SQL Product Manager) on 'Doing SQL in PL/SQL: best and worst practices.'Bryn surely has the most thorough and clear understanding of the PL/SQL language of anyone I have met (definitely including me).His talk… read moreDoing SQL in PL/SQL: key resource from Bryn Llewellyn
October 08 2008
One of the highlights of Oracle Open World 2008 for me was the presentation by Bryn Llewellyn (PL/SQL Product Manager) on “Doing SQL in PL/SQL.” Bryn surely has the most thorough and clear understanding of the PL/SQL language of anyone I have met (definitely including me). His talk was detailed and precise… read moreQuick Tip: Oracle11g function result cache
October 05 2008
I just realized it's been a little while since I offered some PL/SQL thoughts on this blog. Sorry, the election campaign is twisting around my priorities. So how about if I share with you what I believe is far and away the most important new feature for PL/SQL developers in… read moreOctober 03 2008
We often spend a lot of time trumpeting the sexy little widgets in our database tools and overlook the little things that really aid in the development of our applications or even just writing the mundane queries that fill up our day. I’d like to just spend a quick 10 minutes… read moreControl Convergence by Example
October 03 2008
Control convergence – the effort of staying in compliance while reducing the number of controls – is a big trend in the industry today. In this article, we demonstrate how the data professional can support a control convergence effort, by way of fictitious case study. read moreSarah Palin, the lipstick-coated, pitbull-mannered Stepford Wife
October 03 2008
I watched the VP debate. Yep, there is no doubt about it: we now know that if Sarah Palin is given a month to prepare for a debate, then she will not totally screw things up. In fact, what we found is that she will be able to pretty much… read moreCould they at least APOLOGIZE for f#@king up our country?
September 30 2008
For years now, people on the left have declared the US economy a "house of cards" built on debt and by transferring wealth from the middle class and poor to the rich. I include myself in this group, as you can verify by reading back through my blog.And for those… read moreCompelling Features for Upgrading to Toad v9.7
September 25 2008
So, another version of Toad has been released. It happens a few times a year. If you’re lucky it’s up to you if and when you want to upgrade to get your bug fixes or new features. If you’re in a larger organization, there’s a standards committee that decides who gets what when. I… read morePolicy Data Management in 3 Stages
September 25 2008
In this article, we talk about policies – an important area of your companies governance, risk, and compliance program. We discuss what a good policy looks like, and how you can evolve a policy data management system in 3 stages. read moreConfiguring Toad’s Team Coding with Subversion
September 23 2008
With Toad for Oracle 9.7 now available, I thought I’d cover how to configure and use Subversion with Toad’s code sharing utility – Team Coding. We had a lot of requests for this integration and here it is ! The Subversion implementation in Toad allows you to use the conventional file-based… read moreFor loops or While loops to scan collections?
September 22 2008
I have generally recommended in the past that whenever you are writing code to iterate through the elements of a collection, you should use a while loop, combined with the FIRST-NEXT or LAST-PRIOR collection methods. The key advantage of this approach is that the code will not raise a NO_DATA_FOUND exception… read moreNow part of Toad for Oracle: Toad for Data Analysis!
September 19 2008
Toad for Data Analysis now comes included with Toad for Oracle! read moreSeptember 18 2008
Human beings, by their very nature, make mistakes. Even seasoned professionals make simple errors on occasion. In this article we explore the “mistake database”, an architecture to help your company minimize errors. read moreSeptember 17 2008
On many occasions, people will email or call me to get help with perceived RAC connectivity issues for various client applications – Toad and other Quest products included. Now some times they may have setups that we’ve not pre-tested, so they have a potential bug – or at least another… read moreAnother aspect of the Bush Legacy
September 14 2008
A world-wide race to arm rather than feed our citizens....US in push for arms dealsThe Times, citing Defense Department sales data through the end of August, reported that countries newly reliant on the United States as a primary major weapons source included Argentina, Brazil, India, Iraq, Morocco and Pakistan and… read moreAlso find Steven on:
