Relational Database Programming

Two styles of programming are encountered in the database world. Classical programming as taught in many universities leads to an atomic, row-oriented, and procedural style inspired by the structured models of programming. In short, many application developers write in the relational database exactly like in the user interface. The other style of programming is holistic, data set oriented, and coded mainly in SQL. This is the style of the database developer. Who This Book Is For

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.