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Create dynamic client/server applications using PL/SQL and the comprehensive information contained in this authoritative volume. Expert Oracle insiders cover the features of PL/SQL, explain scripting semantics and syntax, and fully detail the PL/SQL functionality of Oracle Database 10g. You’ll learn how to write powerful PL/SQL programs, interact with Oracle databases, perform complex calculations, and handle error conditions.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #395817 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 896 pages

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Write Robust PL/SQL Applications

Create dynamic client/server applications using PL/SQL and the comprehensive information contained in this authoritative volume. Expert Oracle insiders cover the features of PL/SQL, explain scripting semantics and syntax, and fully detail the PL/SQL functionality of Oracle Database 10g. You’ll learn how to write powerful PL/SQL programs, interact with Oracle databases, perform complex calculations, and handle error conditions. Plus, you’ll get insider programming tips and techniques and real-world examples from the Oracle community.

• Develop, tune, and debug PL/SQL programs that access Oracle databases from a wide variety of environments
• Use PL/SQL block structures, variables, datatypes, expressions, operators, and statements
• Regulate and recover from errors using exceptions and exception handlers
• Deploy subprograms, procedures, functions, packages, and triggers
• Accomplish intersession communication with DBMS_PIPE and DBMS_ALERT
• Write object-oriented PL/SQL applications
• Manage large sets of data using PL/SQL records and objects
• Work with Oracle Net Services, external procedures, Java libraries, and C shared libraries
• Perform object-oriented programming using transient objects, inheritance, type evolution, and attribute chaining
• Automate database tasks with DBMS_JOB and DBMS_SCHEDULER and add e-mail functionality with UTL_SMTP and UTL_MAIL

About the Author
Scott Urman (Foster City, CA) is a senior member of the diagnostic and defect technical staff in the Language Group of Oracle Support Services, where he aids users of Oracle's various language products (PL/SQL, OCI, and the Oracle precompilers). In addition, he reviews Oracle technical documentation, writes white papers on Oracle languages, and makes technical presentations both inside Oracle and at meetings of Oracle User's Groups. Scott is the best-selling author of Oracle Press' Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle8 PL/SQL Programming.