CHAPTER
9
Packages
Packages are the backbone of Oracle Database 12c application development. They let you group functions and procedures as components into libraries. Inside these package libraries you can have shared variables, types, and components. Components are functions and procedures. Unlike stand-alone stored functions and procedures, covered in Chapter 8, stored packages divide their declaration from their implementation. Package specifications publish the declaration, and package bodies implement the declaration.
This chapter explains how to declare, implement, leverage, and manage stored packages. It is written in a way to help the ...
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