There Is a Better Way 3 – Resilient Software and PL/SQL

Example 1-2 illustrates a slightly different style of writing PL/SQL, which might be more familiar to developers used to mainstream languages. Again, some comments (which start with the characters “–”) are added to help in understanding it. As before, try to figure out what the code is doing before reading on. Example 1-2. A more […]

There Is a Better Way 2 – Resilient Software and PL/SQL

The code in Example 1-1 loops from 1 to 20 and checks if the numbers are even or odd. The latter is done using the MOD function and the result is written into a table called temp. A cursory glance at the listing allows us to figure most of this out. Some confusion might also […]

There Is a Better Way – Resilient Software and PL/SQL

There Is a Better Way Learning PL/SQL is not so difficult. With a little effort and a willingness to expand your programming tool set, PL/SQL skills can be acquired with relative ease. In fact, quickly learning new programming languages is a key skill for all developers. It’s also an interesting challenge and helps make for […]