Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 5th Edition

Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference

Introduction

The Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference is a quick reference guide to the PL/SQL programming language, which provides procedural extensions to the SQL relational database language.

The purpose of this pocket reference is to help PL/SQL users find the syntax of specific language elements. It is not a self-contained user guide; basic knowledge of the PL/SQL programming language is assumed. For more information, see the following O’Reilly books:

• Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Sixth Edition, by Steven Feuerstein with Bill Pribyl
• Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, Second Edition, by Steven Feuerstein 
• Oracle Essentials, Fifth Edition, by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, and Jonathan Stern

Wherever a package, program, or function is supported only for a particular version of the Oracle database (e.g., Oracle Database 12c), we indicate this in the text.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to all those who helped in the preparation of this book. In particular, thanks to Patrick Barel, Indu Janardanan, and Prachi Sharma for their technical reviews (though all mistakes and omissions remain the responsibility of the authors). Bryn Llewellyn gave us thorough and thoroughly helpful feedback on  previous editions. Thanks as well to first-edition reviewers Eric J. Givler and Stephen Nelson and to second- and third-edition reviewer Jonathan Gennick. In addition, we appreciate all the good work by the O’Reilly crew, especially editor Tim McGovern, in ...