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About: For the past ten years, O'Reilly's Oracle PL/SQL Programming has been the bestselling book on PL/SQL, Oracle's powerful procedural language.
About: Nearly a quarter-million PL/SQL programmers--novices and experienced developers alike--have found the first and second editions of Oracle PL/SQL Programming to be indispensable references to this powerful language.
About: The first edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming quickly became an indispensable reference for both novice and experienced PL/SQL developers.
About: Oracle is the most popular database management system in use today, and PL/SQL plays a pivotal role in current and projected Oracle products and applications.
The first edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming quickly became an indispensable reference for both novice and experienced PL/SQL developers. Packed with examples and recommendations, it helped everyone using PL/SQL (from the Oracle Forms developer to the database administrator) make the most of this powerful language.
Oracle8 presents PL/SQL programmers with new challenges by increasing both the possibilities and complexities of the language. This new edition updates the original book for Oracle8, adding chapters describing the new PL/SQL object features (object types, collections, object views, and external procedures). The second edition also contains a much-requested chapter on tuning PL/SQL, as well as expanded discussions of debugging and tracing PL/SQL execution.
The book comes with a companion diskette containing the Companion Utilities Guide for Oracle PL/SQL Programming, an online tool developed by RevealNet, Inc. The online guide contains more than 100 file of source code and documentation prepared by the authors.
Even if you've already read the first edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, you'll find an enormous amount of new and revised information in this second edition and on its companion diskette. If you're new to PL/SQL, you'll soon find yourself on the road to mastery.
NOTE: To make room for the new material, some summaries and code from the first edition have been moved to the companion disk.
Oracle PL/SQL Programming is divided into seven parts:
Foreword Preface
Part I: Programming in PL/SQL
- 1. Introduction to PL/SQL
- 2. PL/SQL Language Fundamentals
- 3. Effective Coding Style
- 11. Character Functions
- 12. Date Functions
- 13. Numeric, LOB, and Miscellaneous Functions
- 14. Conversion Functions
- 15. Procedures and Functions
- 16. Packages
- 17. Calling Stored PL/SQL Functions from SQL
- 18. Object Types
- 19. Nested Tables and VARRAYs
- 20. Object Views
- 21. External Procedures
- 22. Code Design Tips
- 23. Managing Code in the Database
- 24. Debugging PL/SQL
- 25. Tracing PL/SQL
- 26. Tuning PL/SQL
- A. What's on the Companion Disk?
- B. Calling Stored Procedures from PL/SQL Version 1.1
- C. Built-in Packages
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