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Feedback on idea for comments and tracing from newsletter

In my latest PL/SQL newsletter (if you don’t yet receive it, visit www.stevenfeuerstein.com and enter your email in the yellow box on the left side of the home page), I passed on a tip I got during a training, namely:Tech Tip: A New Place for Your Comm…

Posted 24 August 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

PL/SQL Challenge players finds doc bug in STANDARD package

The PL/SQL Challenge recently (6 August) offered a quiz on the INSTR function. I showed everyone the header of this function from the STANDARD package in which it is defined:– Find nth occurrence of str1 in str2 starting at posfunction INSTR(STR1 VARC…

Posted 23 August 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

PL/SQL Challenge Live event in Melbourne, Australia

Quest Software and AUSOUG sponsored a PL/SQL Challenge Live quiz at the Insync 2010 conference on 16 August (which took place just 3 hours after I arrived from a very long odyssey from Chicago). This is the second live quiz I have done (the first was…

Posted 17 August 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Fall 2010 Webinar Series Sponsored by Quest Software

I will be conducting a third series of webcasts for Quest Software that will put you on the fast track to maximizing your understanding and use of Oracle PL/SQL. Here are lots of details and links for registration. I hope to “see” you there!Session 1…

Posted 12 August 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Update: Eli as Programmer

Almost three weeks ago, my son Eli started working for me as an APEX programmer – with absolutely no background in software. He’d focused mainly on being a musician for the last five+ years (guitar, songwriting, etc.). So: minimal mathematics education…

Posted 06 August 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

New presentation available for download: Golden Rules for Developers

I presented for the first time ever “Golden Rules for Developers” at the NYOUG general meeting on June 9, 2010.Click here to download the presentation in PDF form.And here’s the description of the presentation:We all want to write better code: fewer bu…

Posted 10 June 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °