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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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Package Specification

CREATE [OR REPLACE] PACKAGE package_name 
[ AUTHID {CURRENT_USER | DEFINER} ] 
{IS | AS}
   [definitions of public TYPEs
                        ,declarations of public variables, types and objects
                        ,declarations of exceptions
                        ,pragmas
                        ,declarations of cursors, procedures and functions
                        ,headers of procedures and functions]

END [package_name];

Lists all the objects that are publicly available for use in applications. A package specification also provides all the information a developer needs in order to use objects in the package; essentially, it is the package’s Application Programming Interface (API.). The package specification is required. A package does not need a body if the specification or that package does not contain any procedures or functions and if no private code is needed.

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