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Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers, and Business Analysts
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Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers, and Business Analysts

by John Adolph Palinski
August 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
10h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 14. The Basics of PL/SQL

PL/SQL (Procedure Language SQL) is Oracle’s programming language and is a powerful programming tool. It is comparable to COBOL, Fortran, C, or Java. PL/SQL is used to tell the Oracle database how to process records. It is also used in Oracle’s development tools. Just as Visual Basic is the power behind Microsoft’s Visual Basic, PL/SQL is the power behind Oracle Forms and Reports. The language is used to define a form’s behavior, to perform special calculations in a report, and to process records.

As with COBOL, PL/SQL allows the developer to define local variables, cursors, IF-THEN-ELSE constructs, and several different types of looping procedures. Cursors allow the developer to process records one at a time. ...

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