Steven Feuerstein

Steven Feuersteinis a author focusing on theOracle databasePL/SQLlanguage, having published several books on this language throughO'Reilly Media.Feuerstein has worked withOracle Databasetechnology - and worked twice forOracle Corporation- since 1987, and has been developing software since 1980.

Steven Feuerstein

Career

Feuerstein has developedsoftwaresince 1980. He spent a total of twelve years withOracle Corporation(1987–1992, 2014–-2021) and served as PL/SQL evangelist forQuest Softwarefrom January 2001 to 2013. In March 2014, he re-joined Oracle Corporation as an Architect and leads a team of Oracle Developer Advocates.

Between 1999 and 2008, he focused his attention on improving thetestingof PL/SQL programs, first by starting theopen-sourceframeworkutPLSQLforunit testingPL/SQL, later on through the creation ofQuest Code Tester for Oracle,which automates PL/SQL code testing.

Steven was one of the original Oracle ACE Directors and publishes regularly in Oracle Magazine and in theODTUGmagazine.

In April 2010, Feuerstein launched the PL/SQL Challenge,a daily quiz on Oracle PL/SQL that quickly attracted over 1,000 daily players, making it one of the most active PL/SQL-related websites on the Internet.In 2011, Feuerstein added the PL/SQL Channel,which offers video-based training on the Oracle PL/SQL language.

In March 2014, Feuerstein re-joined Oracle Corporation as an evangelist. He then formed the Developer Advocates team to help Oracle Database users take full advantage of this database to build their applications. The PL/SQL Challenge was transformed into theOracle Dev Gym,which offers quizzes, workouts and classes onSQL,PL/SQL,and other Oracle technologies.

In February 2021, Feuerstein left Oracle to join Insum Solutions as a senior advisor.

Books

• Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages,O'Reilly Media, October 1996,ISBN1-56592-238-7
• with Charles Dye, John Beresniewicz.Oracle Built-in Packages,O'Reilly Media, May 1998,ISBN1-56592-375-8
• with John Beresniewicz, Chip Dawes.Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference,O'Reilly Media, October 1998,ISBN1-56592-456-8
• Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Features,O'Reilly Media, October 1999,ISBN1-56592-675-7
• with Andrew Odewahn.Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Developer's Workbook,O'Reilly Media, May 2000,ISBN1-56592-674-9
• with Bill Pribyl.Learning Oracle PL/SQL,O'Reilly Media, November 2001,ISBN0-596-00180-0
• with Arup Nanda.Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs,First Edition, O'Reilly Media, October 2005,ISBN0-596-00587-3
• with Guy Harrison.MySQL Stored Procedure Programming: Building High-Performance Web Applications in MySQL,O'Reilly Media, March 2006,ISBN0-596-10089-2
• Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices,Second Edition, O'Reilly Media, October 2007,ISBN0-596-51410-7
• with Bill Pribyl, Chip Dawes.Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference,Fourth Edition, O'Reilly Media, October 2007,ISBN0-596-51404-2
• with Bill Pribyl.Oracle PL/SQL Programming,Fifth Edition, O'Reilly Media, September 2009,ISBN0-596-51446-8
• Oracle PL/SQL Programming,6th Edition Covers Versions Through Oracle Database 12c, February 2014ISBN1-4493-2445-2

External links

• The Cyberworld of Steven Feuerstein(personal homepage)
• The PL/SQL Challenge(daily PL/SQL quiz)
• The PL/SQL Channel(video trainings on Oracle PL/SQL)
• FeuerThoughtsSteven Feuerstein's blog,often about non-technical issues
• Best Practice PL/SQL with Steven Feuerstein,onOracle Technology Network
• PL/SQL ObsessionSteven Feuerstein's online portal for all things PL/SQLon Quest Software's community portaltoadworld.com
• Feuerthoughts: An Interview with Steven Feuersteinby Iggy Fernandez, Editor of the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) Journal for the August 2006 issue
• An interview with Steven FeuersteinA recent interviewondatabasedesign-resource.com