Oracle PL/SQL Programming 5th Edition

Description

This book is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available. Like its predecessors, this fifth edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using Oracle's powerful procedural language. Thoroughly updated for Oracle Database 11g Release 2, this edition reveals new PL/SQL features and provides extensive code samples, ranging from simple examples to complex and complete applications, in the book and on the companion website.

 This indispensable reference for both novices and experienced Oracle programmers will help you:

* Get PL/SQL programs up and running quickly, with clear instructions for executing, tracing, testing, debugging, and managing PL/SQL code
* Optimize PL/SQL performance with the aid of a brand-new chapter in the fifth edition
* Explore datatypes, conditional and sequential control statements, loops, exception handling, security features, globalization and localization issues, and the PL/SQL architecture
* Understand and use new Oracle Database 11g features, including the edition-based redefinition capability, the function result cache, the new CONTINUE statement, fine-grained dependency tracking, sequences in PL/SQL expressions, supertype invocation from subtypes, and enhancements to native compilation, triggers, and dynamic SQL
* Use new Oracle Database 11g tools and techniques such as PL/Scope, the PL/SQL hierarchical profiler, and the SecureFiles technology for large objects
* Build modular PL/SQL applications using procedures, functions, triggers, and packages

CONTENTS:

DedicationPrefaceProgramming in PL/SQL
* Chapter 1: Introduction to PL/SQL
* Chapter 2: Creating and Running PL/SQL Code
* Chapter 3: Language FundamentalsPL/SQL Program Structure
* Chapter 4: Conditional and Sequential Control
* Chapter 5: Iterative Processing with Loops
* Chapter 6: Exception HandlersPL/SQL Program Data
* Chapter 7: Working with Program Data
* Chapter 8: Strings
* Chapter 9: Numbers
* Chapter 10: Dates and Timestamps
* Chapter 11: Records
* Chapter 12: Collections
* Chapter 13: Miscellaneous DatatypesSQL in PL/SQL
* Chapter 14: DML and Transaction Management
* Chapter 15: Data Retrieval
* Chapter 16: Dynamic SQL and Dynamic PL/SQLPL/SQL Application Construction
* Chapter 17: Procedures, Functions, and Parameters
* Chapter 18: Packages
* Chapter 19: Triggers
* Chapter 20: Managing PL/SQL Code
* Chapter 21: Optimizing PL/SQL Performance
* Chapter 22: I/O and PL/SQLAdvanced PL/SQL Topics
* Chapter 23: Application Security and PL/SQL
* Chapter 24: PL/SQL Architecture
* Chapter 25: Globalization and Localization in PL/SQL
* Chapter 26: Object-Oriented Aspects of PL/SQL
* Chapter 27: Calling Java from PL/SQL
* Chapter 28: External ProceduresRegular Expression Metacharacters and Function ParametersNumber Format ModelsDate Format ModelsColophon