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CHAPTER 11Introducing PL/SQL Programming

Oracle added a procedural programming language known as PL/SQL (Procedural Language/SQL) to the database. PL/SQL is built on top of SQL and enables you to write programs that contain SQL statements. PL/SQL is a third-generation language and contains the standard programming constructs you would expect from such a language, such as:

Block structure

Variables and types

Conditional logic

Loops

Cursors, which ...

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