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Steven Feuerstein

Oracle PL/SQL expert, evangelist, author and trainer


Areas of Expertise:
  • PL/SQL
  • Oracle
  • stored procedures
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • training
  • writing

Biography

Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, having written ten books on PL/SQL, including Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices (all from O'Reilly Media). Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle (1987-1992) and serves as PL/SQL Evangelist for Quest Software. His Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices column is one of the more popular destinations on the Oracle Technology Network and he writes regularly for Oracle Magazine. Steven believes that unit testing is one of the most critical challenges facing PL/SQL developers and has been developing Quest Code Tester for Oracle to meet that challenge (www.quest.com/code-tester-for-oracle).

Books

Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference
by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl, Chip Dawes
Fourth Edition October 2007
$14.99 USD
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Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices
by Steven Feuerstein
Second Edition October 2007
$29.99 USD
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MySQL Stored Procedure Programming MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
by Guy Harrison, Steven Feuerstein
March 2006
$44.99 USD
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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs
by Arup Nanda, Steven Feuerstein
October 2005
$39.95 USD

Oracle PL/SQL Programming Oracle PL/SQL Programming
by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl
Fourth Edition August 2005
$64.95 USD
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Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference
by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl, Chip Dawes
Third Edition April 2004
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Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference
by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl, Chip Dawes
Second Edition February 2003
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming Oracle PL/SQL Programming
by Steven Feuerstein
Third Edition September 2002
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Learning Oracle PL/SQL Learning Oracle PL/SQL
by Bill Pribyl
November 2001
$49.99 USD
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Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices
by Steven Feuerstein
April 2001
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Developer's Workbook Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Developer's Workbook
by Steven Feuerstein, Andrew Odewahn
May 2000
$49.99 USD
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Featu Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Featu
by Steven Feuerstein
October 1999
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Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference
by Bill Pribyl, Steven Feuerstein, Chip Dawes
April 1999
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Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference
by Steven Feuerstein, John Beresniewicz, Chip Dawes
October 1998
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Oracle Built-in Packages Oracle Built-in Packages
by Steven Feuerstein, Charles Dye, John Beresniewicz
May 1998
$49.95 USD
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming Oracle PL/SQL Programming
by Steven Feuerstein
Second Edition September 1997
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Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages
by Steven Feuerstein

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Oracle PL/SQL Programming Oracle PL/SQL Programming
by Steven Feuerstein

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Articles

Blog

Steven's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.toadworld.com/sf

Testing and refreshing data from production

April 17 2008

As many of my readers likely know by now, I have been working for the past several years on the Quest Code Tester development effort.   Code Tester is the most powerful PL/SQL test automation tool available. You describe the expected behavior of your programs and Code Tester generates your test code,… read more

Auto-formatting of templates for Toad

April 10 2008

A few months ago, I posted on this blog an explanation of how to use Toad's Code Templates to standardize development and improve productivity. I included an XML document that contains over 20 templates that I thought you might find useful. I also asked my readers to produce XML transformations… read more

Wierd PL/SQL

March 17 2008

  Collaborate08, annual conference of the International Oracle User Group, and several other national and international user groups, will be held in Denver this year, from April 13th to the 16th. I am going to present three papers, including (for the first time) Weird PL/SQL. I thought you might enjoy reading… read more

Just how popular is PL/SQL?

February 04 2008

Just how popular is PL/SQL?   And how many PL/SQL developers are there "out there"?   These are surprisingly hard questions to answer. Officially and even unofficially, Oracle Corporation's point people on PL/SQL do not have any idea (or refuse to say) how many PL/SQL developers there are.   I take the approach of doing… read more
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