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Using PL/SQL for Oracle Database 12c, you can build solutions that deliver unprecedented performance and efficiency in any environment, including the cloud. Oracle® PL/SQL by Example, Fifth Edition, teaches all the PL/SQL skills you’ll need, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects. Now fully updated for the newest version of PL/SQL, it covers everything from basic syntax and program control through the latest optimization and security enhancements.
Step by step, you’ll walk through every key task, mastering today’s most valuable Oracle 12cPL/SQL programming techniques on your own. Start by downloading projects and exercises from informit.com/title/0133796787. Once you’ve done an exercise, the authors don’t just present the answer: They offer an in-depth discussion introducing deeper insights and modern best practices.
This book’s approach fully reflects the authors’ award-winning experience teaching PL/SQL to professionals at Columbia University. New database developers and DBAs can use it to get productive fast; experienced PL/SQL programmers will find it to be a superb Oracle Database 12csolutions reference.
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Benjamin Rosenzweig is a senior project manager at Misys Financial Software, where he has worked since 2002. Prior to that he was a principal consultant for more than three years at Oracle Corporation in the Custom Development Department. His computer experience ranges from creating an electronic Tibetan—English Dictionary in Kathmandu, Nepal, to supporting presentation centers at Goldman Sachs and managing a trading system at TIAA-CREF. Benjamin has been an instructor at the Columbia University Computer Technology and Application program in New York City since 1998. In 2002 he was awarded the “Outstanding Teaching Award” from the Chair and Director of the CTA program. He holds a B.A. from Reed College and a certificate in database development and design from Columbia University. His previous books with Prentice Hall are Oracle Forms Developer: The Complete Video Course (2000), and Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers (2003).
Elena Rakhimov has over 20 years of experience in database architecture and development in a wide spectrum of enterprise and business environments ranging from non-profit organizations to Wall Street to her current position with a prominent software company where she heads up the database team. Her determination to stay "hands-on" notwithstanding, Elena managed to excel in the academic arena having taught relational database programming at Columbia University’s highly esteemed Computer Technology and Applications program. She was educated in database analysis and design at Columbia University and in applied mathematics at Baku State University in Azerbaijan. She currently resides in Vancouver, Canada.
Chapter 1 – PL/SQL Concepts
Chapter 2 – PL/SQL Language Fundamentals -
Chapter 3 – SQL in PL/SQL
Chapter 4 – Conditional Control: IF Statements
Chapter 5 – Conditional Control: CASE Statement
Chapter 6 – Iterative Control: Part I
a. Simple Loops
b. While Loops
c. Numeric FOR Loops
Chapter 7 – Iterative Control: Part II
Chapter 8 – Error Handling and Build-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 – Object Types in Oracle
Chapter 23 – Oracle Supplied Packages
Chapter 24 – Optimizing PL/SQL
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