Oracle PL/SQL Programming Developer's Workbook

Description

However excellent they are, most computer books are inherently passive--readers simply take in text without having any opportunity to react to it. The Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook is a different kind of animal! It's designed to engage you actively, to get you solving programming problems immediately, and to help you apply what you've learned about PL/SQL--and in the process deepen your knowledge of the language. By tackling the exercises in this workbook, you'll find yourself moving more rapidly along the learning curve to join the growing ranks of PL/SQL experts.

The Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook is a companion to Steven Feuerstein's bestselling Oracle PL/SQL Programming and his other PL/SQL books from O'Reilly. It contains a carefully constructed set of problems and solutions that will test your language skills and help you become a better developer--both with PL/SQL and with other languages. Exercises are provided at three levels: beginner, intermediate, and expert. The workbook exercises cover all the major features of PL/SQL, including those new to Oracle8i (e.g., Java and web features, autonomous transactions, and bulk binds).

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CONTENTS:

Preface
 I. Problems 1
1. Declaring Variables and Naming Elements
2. Loops
3. Conditional and Sequential Logic
4. Exception Handling
5. Records
6. Index-by Tables
7. Nested Tables
8. Variable Arrays
9. Object Technology
10. Cursors
11. DML and Transaction Management
12. Cursor Variables
13. Native Dynamic SQL
14. Procedures, Functions, and Blocks
15. Packages
16. Triggers
17. Calling Functions in SQL
18. Character Functions
19. Date Functions
20. Conversion, Numeric, and Miscellaneous Functions
21. DBMS_SQL Built-in Package
22. DBMS_PIPE Built-in Package
23. DBMS_OUTPUT Built-in Package
24. UTL_FILE Built-in Package
25. DBMS_ JOB Built-in Package
26. Using Java with PL/SQL
27. External Procedures
28. PL/SQL Web Development
29. Tuning PL/SQL
30. PL/SQL for DBAs
 II. Solutions 239
1. Declaring Variables and Naming Elements
2. Loops
3. Conditional and Sequential Logic
4. Exception Handling
5. Records
6. Index-by Tables
7. Nested Tables
8. Variable Arrays
9. Object Technology
10. Cursors
11. DML and Transaction Management
12. Cursor Variables
13. Native Dynamic SQL
14. Procedures, Functions, and Blocks
15. Packages
16. Triggers
17. Calling Functions in SQL
18. Character Functions
19. Date Functions
20. Conversion, Numeric, and Miscellaneous Functions
21. DBMS_SQL Built-in Package
22. DBMS_PIPE Built-in Package
23. DBMS_OUTPUT Built-in Package
24. UTL_FILE Built-in Package
25. DBMS_ JOB Built-in Package
26. Using Java with PL/SQL
27. External Procedures
28. PL/SQL Web Development
29. Tuning PL/SQL
30. PL/SQL for DBAs