Database Programmers do the Darndest Things
Track
APEX
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Duration
45'
There are always multiple ways to solve programming problems, and when it comes to databases this is no different. Creative freedom leads to as lot of things that you might want to avoid when it comes to writing Business Applications. Call it mistakes, call it lack of knowledge about out-of-the-box functionality, call it "This is the way we've always done it", call it "room for improvement", call it "you know what I really hate about ... " In this session I will show "remarkable" things that I have encountered when it comes to data modelling, naming conventions, writing SQL and PL/SQL and creating APEX applications.
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About speaker
Alex Nuijten, author
Alex Nuijten is an independent consultant (allAPEX), specializing in Oracle database development with PL/SQL and Oracle Application Express (APEX). Besides his consultancy work, he conducts training classes, mainly in APEX, SQL and PL/SQL. Alex has been a speaker at numerous international conferences, such as ODTUG, Oracle Open World, UKOUG, IOUG, OUGF, BGOUG, nlOUG APEX World and OBUG. For his presentations, Alex received several Best Speaker awards. He wrote many articles in Oracle related magazines, and at regular intervals he writes about Oracle Application Express and Oracle database development on his blog "Notes on Oracle" (nuijten.blogspot.com). Alex is co-author of the following books “Oracle APEX Best Practices” (published by Packt Publishers) and “Real World SQL and PL/SQL” (published by Oracle Press). Because of his contributions to the Oracle community, Alex was awarded the Oracle ACE Director membership in August 2010.