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This integrated learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects! Completely updated for Oracle 11g, Oracle PL/SQL by Example, Fourth Edition covers all the fundamentals, from PL/SQL syntax and program control through packages and Oracle 11g’s significantly improved triggers.
One step at a time, you’ll walk through every key task, discovering the most important PL/SQL programming techniques on your own. Building on your hands-on learning, the authors share solutions that offer deeper insights and proven best practices. End-of-chapter projects bring together all the techniques you’ve learned, strengthening your understanding through real-world practice.
This book’s approach fully reflects the authors’ award-winning experience teaching PL/SQL programming to professionals at Columbia University. New database developers and DBAs can use its step-by-step instructions to get productive fast; experienced PL/SQL programmers can use this book as a practical solutions reference. Coverage includes
• Mastering basic PL/SQL concepts and general programming language fundamentals, and understanding SQL’s role in
PL/SQL
• Using conditional and iterative program control techniques, including the new CONTINUE and CONTINUE WHEN statements
• Efficiently handling errors and exceptions
• Working with cursors and triggers, including Oracle 11g’s powerful new compound triggers
• Using stored procedures, functions, and packages to write modular code that other programs can execute
• Working with collections, object-relational features, native dynamic SQL, bulk SQL, and other advanced PL/SQL capabilities
• Handy reference appendices: PL/SQL formatting guide, sample database schema, ANSI SQL standards reference, and
more
Download Appendix D: Answers to the Try It Yourself Sections
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Conditional Control: IF Statements in Oracle PL/SQL
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1 PL/SQL Concepts
Chapter 2 General Programming Language Fundamentals
Chapter 3 SQL in PL/SQL
Chapter 4 Conditional Control: IF Statements
Chapter 5 Conditional Control: CASE Statements
Chapter 6 Iterative Control: Part 1
Chapter 7 Iterative Control: Part 2
Chapter 8 Error Handling and Built-In Exceptions
Chapter 9 Exceptions
Chapter 10 Exceptions: Advanced Concepts
Chapter 11 Introduction to Cursors
Chapter 12 Advanced Cursors
Chapter 13 Triggers
Chapter 14 Compound Triggers
Chapter 15 Collections
Chapter 16 Records
Chapter 17 Native Dynamic SQL
Chapter 18 Bulk SQL
Chapter 19 Procedures
Chapter 20 Functions
Chapter 21 Packages
Chapter 22 Stored Code
Chapter 23 Object Types in Oracle
Chapter 24 Oracle Supplied Packages
Appendix A PL/SQL Formatting Guide
Appendix B Student Database Schema
Appendix C ANSI SQL Standards
Appendix D Answers to Try it Yourself Sections