Thanks, Tim Hall , for launching the annual OTN Appreciation Day , now renamed to ODC Appreciation Day , since the Oracle Technology Network has been recently re-shaped into Oracle Developer Community ! Many "outside" Oracle technologists (not employed by Oracle) are publishing posts today about their favorite Oracle technologies. I have seen posts about index-organized tables, PL/SQL, SQL, pipelined table functions, SQL Developer, PL/SQL collections in SQL, and much, much more. I could write a similar blog about my all-time favorite technology, PL/SQL, the best database programming language the world has ever seen. But you all know that about me, and hopefully about PL/SQL, too. And it seems a little, I don't know, self-serving for an Oracle employee to toot a horn about Oracle technology (OK, not self-serving: it is, after all, my job ). But since OTN has been renamed into Oracle Developer Community, I will take advantage of Tim's initiative to c...
For the last twenty years, I have managed to transform an obsession with PL/SQL into a paying job. How cool is that?