Detailed Description

Sure, there's an awful lot you can do and write and accomplish with PL/SQL. There's also, however, an awful lot that you should NEVER do or write or try to accomplish in PL/SQL. This presentation will showcase the "top ten" things to avoid when building a PL/SQL-based application (warning: lots of it is thoroughly tongue-in-cheek!). If you have ideas of your own on this matter, please send them along to Steven at and perhaps they will be highlighted in a future iteration of this presentation!

Everybody goes on and on about "best practices." We all know, however, that we just don't have time to remember all those important things that we SHOULD do. We are, on the other hand, terrified that someone else will look at our code and laugh at something we did that is just ridiculous and wrong. Fear of embarrassment is a powerful motivator for smart people like PL/SQL programmers, so Steven will use that approach in this presentation with the hopes that maybe THIS time attention will be paid and habits of programming modified!