In my latest PL/SQL newsletter (if you don't yet receive it, visit www.stevenfeuerstein.com and enter your email in the yellow box on t...

The PL/SQL Challenge recently (6 August) offered a quiz on the INSTR function. I showed everyone the header of this function from the STAND...

Quest Software and AUSOUG sponsored a PL/SQL Challenge Live quiz at the Insync 2010 conference on 16 August (which took place just 3 hours ...

I will be conducting a third series of webcasts for Quest Software that will put you on the fast track to maximizing your understanding ...

Almost three weeks ago, my son Eli started working for me as an APEX programmer - with absolutely no background in software. He'd focuse...

I have always found it both amusing and alarming to hear the right wing of this country blast the mainstream media for its liberal bias. Wha...

My youngest son, Eli (23), has spent the last several years honing his skills as a guitarist and composer. He's very talented, but it...

I read an article in the NY Times today regarding an apparel factory in the Dominican Republic that, according to the Times, "is a hig...

I am stunned at the pressure mounted by Gulf Coast-area politicians and businesspeople on the Obama Administration to allow resumption of de...

Today (in one hour in fact, 10 AM Chicago time), 48 developers will compete in the first-ever PL/SQL Challenge quarterly championship, with ...

The PL/SQL Challenge is rapidly gaining momentum. We are in our second 1000+ player day (I think we will break 1200), and the fourth 900+ pl...

Don't get me wrong (or get me as wrong as you'd like), I am very happy that the US won their latest World Cup game, and will advance...

I just caught this headline at Yahoo: Coast Guard to BP: Speed it up, stop the spill (AP) "Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil...

I presented for the first time ever "Golden Rules for Developers" at the NYOUG general meeting on June 9, 2010. Click here to d...

Could drop a bunch of highly trained, elite commandos onto a boat carrying humanitarian supplies and hundreds of people who they know are ve...

We have created a new blog (just what the world needed?) specifically for the PL/SQL Challenge. The developers playing the daily quiz are...

I just received a note "pre-announcing" the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 keynote. Not someone from Oracle, not someone deep into the t...

I just received the following email from a person who tried out the PL/SQL Challenge : "I don't have 11g installed on my home com...

On Thursday, Oracle sent out its Database Application Developer Newsletter and included this paragraph: Take the PL/SQL Challenge Oracle...

I have just come back from a wonderful weekend in Danville, Virginia, home of Averett University. My wife, Veva, organized a family reunion/...