Oracle PL/SQL by Example (Prentice Hall Professional Oracle Series)

Oracle PL/SQL by Example (Prentice Hall Professional Oracle Series)

<p style="margin:0px;">This integrated learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects! Completely updated for Oracle 11g,<i> <b> Oracle PL/SQL by Example</b> </i>, Fourth Edition covers all the fundamentals, from PL/SQL syntax and program control through packages and Oracle 11g’s significantly improved triggers. </p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin:0px;">One step at a time, you’ll walk through every key task, discovering the most important PL/SQL programming techniques on your own. Building on your hands-on learning, the authors share solutions that offer deeper insights and proven best practices. End-of-chapter projects bring together all the techniques you’ve learned, strengthening your understanding through real-world practice. </p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin:0px;">This book’s approach fully reflects the authors’ award-winning experience teaching PL/SQL programming to professionals at Columbia University. New database developers and DBAs can use its step-by-step instructions to get productive fast; experienced PL/SQL programmers can use this book as a practical solutions reference. Coverage includes </p> <p style="margin:0px;">        • Mastering basic PL/SQL concepts and general programming language fundamentals, and understanding SQL’s role in</p> <p style="margin:0px;">          PL/SQL</p> <p style="margin:0px;">        • Using conditional and iterative program control techniques, including the new CONTINUE and CONTINUE WHEN statements</p> <p style="margin:0px;">        • Efficiently handling errors and exceptions</p> <p style="margin:0px;">        • Working with cursors and triggers, including Oracle 11g’s powerful new compound triggers</p> <p style="margin:0px;">        • Using stored procedures, functions, and packages to write modular code that other programs can execute</p> <p style="margin:0px;">        • Working with collections, object-relational features, native dynamic SQL, bulk SQL, and other advanced PL/SQL capabilities</p> <p style="margin:0px;">        • Handy reference appendices: PL/SQL formatting guide, sample database schema, ANSI SQL standards reference, and </p> <p style="margin:0px;">          more</p>