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Practical Oracle SQL: Mastering the Full Power of Oracle Database
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Practical Oracle SQL: Mastering the Full Power of Oracle Database

by Kim Berg Hansen
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
467 pages
8h 30m
English
Apress
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© Kim Berg Hansen 2020
K. Berg HansenPractical Oracle SQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5617-6_3

3. Divide and Conquer with Subquery Factoring

Kim Berg Hansen1 
(1)
Middelfart, Denmark
 

Every programmer has at some point learned about modularization – splitting the code into smaller units each solving a distinct part of the whole, typically used in procedural languages as functions and procedures, like in PL/SQL. In SQL there are views to help reduce complexity and provide reusability.

But modularization does not necessarily mean globally accessible and reusable units. For example, in PL/SQL I can create local functions and procedures in the declaration section of another function or procedure. These code units have only local scope and do not exist ...

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