Oracle Midlands : Event #12 – Summary

 

Tonight was Oracle Midlands Event #12 with Bryn Llewellyn  and Neil Chandler.

Bryn very kindly stepped in for Tom Freyer who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Bryn’s presentation was called Why use PL/SQL?, which was based on his whitepaper of the same name. I’ve written about a number of the topics he raised, including a piece on My Utopian Development Environment, but his talk and his whitepaper put forward a much more consistent and compelling argument. Definitely worth checking out if you are a PL/SQL expert or newbie!

Along the way, he used a little piece of syntax I have never noticed before, which has been available for the whole 20+ years I’ve been using PL/SQL. I’ll write about that in a post tomorrow if I get chance.

By the way, Bryn loves being called Brian, and he loves it when you say S.Q.L. and PL/S.Q.L. rather than Sequel and PL/Sequel. 🙂

redstacktechNext up was Neil with a session called “Why has my plan changed?”. I’ve written about many of the issues discussed in this session, but Neil crystallised a whole array of points really well, and used live demos which I always like to see. Regardless of how well you think you know the subject, I would be surprised if you don’t walk away with a few new things, which you can later pretend you always knew. 🙂

Both guys will be presenting these sessions at UKOUG Tech15 if you want to catch up with them!

Thanks to the guys for coming to speak to us. Thanks to Bryn’s mom, for living in the UK, giving him an excuse to come to UKOUG Tech15 early and therefore be available to step in at short notice. Thanks as always to Red Stack Tech for sponsoring the event, allowing it to remain free, and to Mike for organising it!

Cheers

Tim…

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