A month ago, I received an email asking for some help on PL/SQL. So I helped. Fahd then replied to me as follows: "Do you want to kn...

In my July 2012 PL/SQL newsletter (you can sign up for it here ), I told the following story: After my High Performance PL/SQL presentati...

I attended the ODTUG Kscope12 conference last week in San Antonio. It was hot outside, but the J. W. Marriott resort was a very comfy place ...

In its 11 June 2012 Database Application Developer Newsletter, Oracle writes  " The "PL/SQL 101" series , by PL/SQL demigod S...

Over the weekend of 2 June, we reached a major milestone on the PL/SQL Challenge: the 500,000th answer to a quiz was submitted! Altogether...

TIOBE tracks the "popularity" of programming languages. To quote from their index page : "The TIOBE Programming Community i...

From June 24 through the 28th, hundreds of Oracle technologists will gather in San Antonio, Texas, for the ODTUG Kscope12 conference. As...

11-12 June  2012 will find me in Broomfield, Colorado, training PL/SQL developers and Oracle DBAs. This two-day training, sponsored by RMO...

I received this question from a PL/SQL developer: Dear Steven,   I'm an Italian Pl/Sql developer who often follows your precious ...

Governor Brown today announced the need for an additional $8B in cuts to state spending, on top of some $15B of cuts over the last three yea...

Finally after many years of being complicit in the poisoning of our own bodies, many people are coming to realize that lots of the food prod...

My older son, Chris Silva , is an artist in many media: mural, painting, mosaic, music, video. He is included in a massive and quite beaut...

Chris won a commission to create a mural, in collaboration with his friend Dan Ezra Lang, at 1871, a new "incubator" for startups...

I am very pleased to announce that the SQL quizzes at the PL/SQL Challenge for the month of April are provided by Lucas Jellema and Patric...

A "news analysis" piece in the Sunday New York Times, titled "Text to Driver: That’s My Space," that explores a growing ...

I will be doing one day trainings on high performance PL/SQL and Oracle Database 11g new features in Columbus and Manhattan (NY) in April: ...

The Republican primary contest has offered many examples of the well-known Foot-in-Mouth Syndrome, whereby candidates say things that cause ...

As anyone who's read my blog or otherwise knows me is aware, I have more than my share of criticisms of capitalism. I am not sure it is ...

"Exotic" datatypes, like large objects, object types, XML documents, etc. are being used by more and more Oracle development teams...

I hope that you are aware of the Onion , a hilariously satirical newspaper and website. It continually amazes me how funny and sharp they ca...