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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Program Units

The PL/SQL programming language allows you to create a variety of named program units (containers for code). They include:

Procedure

Program that executes one or more statements.

Function

Program that executes one or more statements and that directly returns a value.

Package

Container for procedures, functions, and data structures.

Triggers

Program that executes in response to database changes.

Object type

Oracle’s version of a class in an object-oriented language; object types can contain member procedures and functions. An object type can contain PL/SQL code in its methods.

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