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Oracle PL/SQL Programming Table of Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Objectives of This Book

Structure of This Book

Conventions Used in This Book Which Platform or Version? About the Code

Safari Enabled

Comments and Questions

Acknowledgments

Section 1.3 So This Is PL/SQL Section 1.4 About PL/SQL Versions

Section 1.5 Resources for

PL/SQL Developers

Section 1.6 Some Words of Advice

Chapter 2 Creating and Running PL/SQL Code

Section 2.1 SQL*Plus

Section 2.2 Performing

Essential PL/SQL Tasks Section 2.3 Calling PL/SQL from Other Languages

Chapter 3 Language

Fundamentals

Section 3.1 PL/SQL Block Structure

Section 3.2 The PL/SQL Character Set

Section 3.3 Identifiers

Section 4.3 The GOTO

Section 5.1 Loop Basics

Section 5.2 The Simple Loop Section 5.3 The WHILE Loop Section 5.4 The Numeric FOR Loop

Section 5.5 The Cursor FOR Loop

Section 5.6 Loop Labels

Section 5.7 Tips for Iterative Processing

Chapter 6 Exception Handlers Section 6.1 Exception-

Handling Concepts and

Section 6.6 Making the Most

of PL/SQL Error Management Part III: PL/SQL Program Data Chapter 7 Working with

Between Datatypes

Chapter 8 Strings

Section 8.1 String Datatypes Section 8.2 Working with Strings

Section 8.3 String Function Quick Reference

Chapter 10 Dates and

Section 10.7 Interval Literals Section 10.8 CAST and

EXTRACT

Section 10.9 Datetime

Arithmetic

Section 10.10 Date/Time Functions

Section 13.1 The BOOLEAN Datatype

Section 13.2 The RAW

Datatype

Section 13.3 The UROWID

and ROWID Datatypes

Section 13.4 The LOB

Section 14.3 Transaction

Management

Section 14.4 Autonomous Transactions

Chapter 15 Data Retrieval Section 15.1 Cursor Basics Section 15.2 Working with Implicit Cursors

Section 15.3 Working with Explicit Cursors

and REF CURSORs

Section 16.6 When to Use DBMS_SQL

Section 16.7 NDS Utility Package

Part V: PL/SQL Application Construction

Chapter 17 Procedures,

Functions, and Parameters Section 17.1 Modular Code Section 17.2 Procedures Section 17.3 Functions

Section 17.4 Parameters Section 17.5 Local Modules Section 17.6 Module

Section 18.5 When to Use Packages

Section 18.6 Packages and Object Types

Chapter 19 Triggers

Section 19.1 DML Triggers Section 19.2 DDL Triggers Section 19.3 Database Event Triggers

Section 19.4 INSTEAD OF Triggers

Section 19.5 AFTER

SUSPEND Triggers

Section 19.6 Maintaining

Triggers

Chapter 20 Managing PL/SQL Code

Section 20.1 Managing Code

in the Database

Section 20.2 Using Native

Compilation

Section 20.3 Using the

Optimizing Compiler and

Compile-Time Warnings

Section 20.4 Conditional

Compilation

Section 20.5 Testing PL/SQL Programs

Section 20.6 Debugging

PL/SQL Programs

Section 20.7 Tuning PL/SQL Programs

Section 20.8 Protecting Stored Code

Chapter 21 I/O and PL/SQL Section 21.1 Displaying

Section 21.5 Other Types of I/O Available in PL/SQL

Part VI: Advanced PL/SQL Topics

Section 22.4 Application Contexts

Section 22.5 Fine-Grained

Auditing

Chapter 23 Inside PL/SQL Section 23.1 Looking Under the Hood

Section 23.2 PL/SQL's

Optimizing Compiler

Section 23.3 Dependency Management

Section 23.4 Execution

Authority Models

Section 23.5 PL/SQL and Oracle Memory

Section 23.6 Server-Side PL/SQL Processing: Reprise

Section 23.7 What You Need

Conversion

Section 24.8 Globalization

Development Kit for PL/SQL Chapter 25 Object-Oriented Aspects of PL/SQL

Section 25.1 Introduction to Oracle's Object Features

Section 25.2 An Extended Example

Section 25.3 Object Views Section 25.4 Maintaining

Object Types and Object Views Section 25.5 Pontifications Chapter 26 Calling Java from

PL/SQL

Section 26.1 Oracle and Java Section 26.2 Getting Ready to Use Java in Oracle

Section 26.3 A Simple

Demonstration

Section 26.4 Using loadjava Section 26.5 Using dropjava Section 26.6 Managing Java in the Database

Section 26.7 Using

DBMS_JAVA

Section 26.8 Publishing and Using Java in PL/SQL

Chapter 27 External

Procedures

Section 27.1 Introduction to External Procedures

Section 27.2 The Oracle Net Configuration

Section 27.3 Setting Up

Multithreaded Mode

Section 27.4 Creating an Oracle Library

Section 27.5 Writing the Call Specification

Section 27.6 Raising an

Exception from the Called C

Appendix C Date Format Models

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Oracle PL/SQL Programming

By Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl

Publisher: O'Reilly

Pub Date: August 2005

Objectives of This Book

Structure of This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Which Platform or Version?

About the Code

Section 1.2 The Origins of PL/SQL Section 1.3 So This Is PL/SQL

Section 1.4 About PL/SQL Versions Section 1.5 Resources for PL/SQL

Languages

Chapter 3 Language Fundamentals Section 3.1 PL/SQL Block Structure Section 3.2 The PL/SQL Character Set Section 3.3 Identifiers

Part II: PL/SQL Program Structure

Chapter 4 Conditional and Sequential

Loops

Section 5.1 Loop Basics

Section 5.2 The Simple Loop

Section 5.3 The WHILE Loop

Section 5.4 The Numeric FOR Loop Section 5.5 The Cursor FOR Loop Section 5.6 Loop Labels

Section 5.7 Tips for Iterative Processing Chapter 6 Exception Handlers

Section 6.1 Exception-Handling Concepts

and Terminology

Section 6.2 Defining Exceptions

Section 6.3 Raising Exceptions

Section 6.4 Handling Exceptions

Section 6.5 Building an Effective Error

Management Architecture

Section 6.6 Making the Most of PL/SQL

Error Management

Part III: PL/SQL Program Data

Chapter 7 Working with Program Data Section 7.1 Naming Your Program Data

Section 8.1 String Datatypes

Section 8.2 Working with Strings Section 8.3 String Function Quick

Reference

Chapter 9 Numbers

Section 9.1 Numeric Datatypes

Section 9.2 Number Conversions Section 9.3 Numeric Functions

Chapter 10 Dates and Timestamps Section 10.1 Datetime Datatypes Section 10.2 Getting the Date and Time Section 10.3 Interval Datatypes

Section 10.4 Datetime Conversions

Section 10.5 Date and Timestamp

Section 11.1 Records in PL/SQL Chapter 12 Collections

Section 12.1 Collections Overview Section 12.2 Collection Methods (Built-

Section 13.3 The UROWID and

Section 15.1 Cursor Basics

Section 15.2 Working with Implicit

Cursors

Section 15.3 Working with Explicit

Cursors

Section 15.4 BULK COLLECT

Section 15.5 SELECT FOR UPDATE

Section 15.6 Cursor Variables and REF

CURSORs

Section 15.7 Cursor Expressions

Chapter 16 Dynamic SQL and Dynamic

PL/SQL

Section 16.1 NDS Statements

Section 16.2 Binding Variables

Section 16.3 Working with Objects and

Collections

Section 16.4 Dynamic PL/SQL

Section 16.5 Recommendations for NDS Section 16.6 When to Use DBMS_SQL Section 16.7 NDS Utility Package Part V: PL/SQL Application Construction Chapter 17 Procedures, Functions, and

Section 17.5 Local Modules

Section 17.6 Module Overloading

Section 17.7 Forward Declarations Section 17.8 Advanced Topics

Section 17.9 Go Forth and Modularize! Chapter 18 Packages

Section 18.1 Why Packages?

Section 18.2 Rules for Building Packages Section 18.3 Rules for Calling Packaged

Elements

Section 18.4 Working with Package Data Section 18.5 When to Use Packages Section 18.6 Packages and Object Types Chapter 19 Triggers

Section 19.1 DML Triggers

Section 19.2 DDL Triggers

Section 19.3 Database Event Triggers Section 19.4 INSTEAD OF Triggers Section 19.5 AFTER SUSPEND

Triggers

Section 19.6 Maintaining Triggers Chapter 20 Managing PL/SQL Code Section 20.1 Managing Code in the

Programs

Section 20.7 Tuning PL/SQL Programs Section 20.8 Protecting Stored Code Chapter 21 I/O and PL/SQL

Section 21.1 Displaying Information

Section 21.2 Reading and Writing Files Section 21.3 Sending Email

Section 21.4 Working with Web-Based

Data (HTTP)

Section 21.5 Other Types of I/O

Available in PL/SQL

Part VI: Advanced PL/SQL Topics

Chapter 22 Application Security and

Section 23.1 Looking Under the Hood Section 23.2 PL/SQL's Optimizing

Compiler

Section 23.3 Dependency Management Section 23.4 Execution Authority Models Section 23.5 PL/SQL and Oracle

Section 24.1 Overview and Terminology Section 24.2 Unicode Primer

Section 24.3 Character Semantics Section 24.4 String Sort Order

Section 24.5 Multilingual Information

Section 25.1 Introduction to Oracle'sObject Features

Section 25.2 An Extended Example Section 25.3 Object Views

Section 25.4 Maintaining Object Types

and Object Views

Section 25.5 Pontifications

Chapter 26 Calling Java from PL/SQL

Section 26.1 Oracle and Java

Section 26.2 Getting Ready to Use Java

in Oracle

Section 26.3 A Simple Demonstration Section 26.4 Using loadjava

Section 26.5 Using dropjava

Section 26.6 Managing Java in the

Database

Section 26.7 Using DBMS_JAVA Section 26.8 Publishing and Using Java in

PL/SQL

Chapter 27 External Procedures

Section 27.1 Introduction to External

Procedures

Section 27.2 The Oracle NetConfiguration

Section 27.3 Setting Up Multithreaded

Mode

Section 27.4 Creating an Oracle Library Section 27.5 Writing the Call

Specification

Section 27.6 Raising an Exception from

the Called C Program

Section 27.7 Nondefault Agents Section 27.8 Maintaining External

Procedures

Part VII: Appendixes

Appendix A Regular Expression

Metacharacters and Function Parameters Section A.1 Metacharacters

Section A.2 Function Parameters Appendix B Number Format Models Appendix C Date Format Models Colophon

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"that's no hill for a stepper" enough times that it finally sank in.

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Millions of application developers anddatabase administrators around the worlduse software provided by Oracle

Corporation to build complex systems thatmanage vast quantities of data At theheart of much of Oracle's software isPL/SQLa programming language thatprovides procedural extensions to

Oracle's version of SQL (Structured

Query Language) and serves as the

programming language within the OracleDeveloper toolset (most notably FormsDeveloper and Reports Developer)

PL/SQL figures prominently as an

enabling technology in almost every new