Steven Feuerstein
Developer Advocate for PL/SQL
Steven Feuerstein was Oracle Corporation's Developer Advocate for PL/SQL between 2014 and 2021. He is an expert 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 published by O'Reilly Media), and currently serving as Senior Advisor for insum Solutions. Steven has been developing software since 1980, spent five years with Oracle back in the "old days" (1987-1992), and was PL/SQL Evangelist for Quest Software (and then Dell) from January 2001 to February 2014 - at which point he returned joyfully to Oracle Corporation. He was one of the original Oracle ACE Directors and writes regularly for Oracle Magazine, which named him the PL/SQL Developer of the Year in both 2002 and 2006. He is also the first recipient of ODTUG's Lifetime Achievement Award (2009).
Recent Blogs
The magic of PL/SQL revealed in three questions
Do you know when to anchor, when to loop, and when not to make?
9 new(er) features of Oracle PL/SQL
Part 13 in a 12-part series of articles on understanding and using PL/SQL for accessing Oracle Database
Working with cursors and dynamic queries in PL/SQL
Part 12 in a series of articles on understanding and using PL/SQL for accessing Oracle Database
Wrap your PL/SQL code in a nice neat package
Part 11 in a series of articles on understanding and using PL/SQL for accessing Oracle Database
The PL/SQL data dictionary: Make views work for you
Part 10 in a series of articles on understanding and using PL/SQL