Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1. The Concept of Style.- 2. SQL: Beauty and the Beast!.- 3. A Holistic Vision Against the Data.- 4. Data by Set or by Row?.- 5. Data Transfer Paradigm.- 6. The Challenge from Scalar Functions.- 7. Writing SQL versus Writing Procedurally.- 8. Row Triggers and the Need for Atomic Solutions.- 9. Final Reflections and Thoughts.

About the Author

Stefan Ardeleanu was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1967. He graduated Math and Philosophy, and he was a math teacher for 10 years. Then he began a career in software development. He felt attracted by databases from the beginning, so his entire career in software industry is related to databases, and especially to developing applications that run on them. Stefan has many years’ experience in systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and PostgreSQL. He has experience in OLTP and data warehousing, and with replication systems. Stefan is a passionate SQL guy, a database trainer, and he has delivered courses on Oracle products as an Oracle partner, especially database development courses and business intelligence courses. Stefan has published works in both Romanian and English.