CHAPTER 3Language Fundamentals
This chapter builds on the discussion of PL/SQL architecture in Chapter 1. It explains the building blocks of the language, and how you define and declare variables. It describes how you assign values to variables and demonstrates datatype concepts. The chapter is divided into the following sections:
Character and lexical units
Block structures
Variable types
Scalar datatypes
Large objects
Composite datatypes
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