Resilient Software The dictionary definition of resilience tends to reflect the ability of a software system to operate under stress or to absorb the impact of a problem. Maintaining stability and failing gracefully are other attributes of resilience where an acceptable service level continues to be offered to the business even when problems occur. It […]
Read MoreRequirements for Resilience: What Versus How I should note that even the world’s greatest developer will occasionally write code with bugs. Regarding bugs, PL/SQL is no different from any other programming language. In later chapters, I’ll look more closely at ways to structure PL/SQL to allow for a more resilient end result. In the meantime, […]
Read MoreEmbracing PL/SQL Abstractions Rather than trying to shoehorn business logic into SQL scripts, the inclusion of some fundamental PL/SQL programming abstractions allows for more powerful and resilient code constructions. For example, adding exception handling is one way of protecting your PL/SQL code from unexpected runtime exceptions, such as the attempted duplicate key insertion from “A […]
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