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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs
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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs

by Arup Nanda, Steven Feuerstein
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
454 pages
14h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About This Book

By reading and using the resources in this book, you will be better able to take advantage of the PL/SQL-based functionality in the Oracle database that is the most critical for DBAs.

We don’t attempt to provide comprehensive coverage of the Oracle PL/SQL language in this book. We provide a solid overview of PL/SQL in Chapter 1, but otherwise assume a basic working knowledge of the language. If you are new to PL/SQL, we suggest that you get started by reading Learning Oracle PL/SQL. From there, Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Fourth Edition, will serve as a comprehensive reference and user guide. That 1,200-page volume is the classic book on both language fundamentals and advanced features.

Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs consists of eight chapters and one appendix, as follows:

Chapter 1, Introduction to PL/SQL, provides a whirlwind tour of the PL/SQL language, touching on all of the topics DBAs will need to become familiar with, from the basics of the PL/SQL block structure, identifier construction, and program data declarations, to the use of control and error-handling statements, to the construction of procedures, functions, packages, and triggers in PL/SQL.

Chapter 2, Cursors, describes PL/SQL cursors and how you can improve database performance by taking advantage of such features as cursor reuse, cursor soft-parsing and soft-closing, and various characteristics of implicit and explicit cursors. It also describes the use of REF CURSORs, bulk fetching, cursor parameters, and ...

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