Oracle PL/SQL Interactive Workbook

Build Oracle PL/SQL applications-now. Fully updated for Oracle 9i No Oracle PL/SQL experience necessary. Real-life labs and "Test Your Thinking" Q&As Start developing applications with Oracle PL/SQL-fast. This integrated book-and-Web learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands on, through real-world labs, exercises, projects, and a complete Web-based training site. Completely updated for Oracle 9i, it covers all the fundamentals-and a whole lot more. Master PL/SQL syntax, iterative and conditional control, scoping, anchored datatypes, cursors, triggers, security, tables, and packaging-plus powerful new techniques for working with exceptions, cursors, collections, and records. Your free Web-based training module includes a Virtual Study Lounge where you can interact with other learners, work on new projects, and get updates. Totally integrated with a FREE, state-of-the-art Oracle 9i learning Web site.Every Prentice Hall Oracle Interactive Workbook is fully integrated with its own exclusive Web site, giving you all this and more: "Test Your Thinking" project solutions and detailed explanations Additional self-review exercises with instant feedback and explanations An exclusive Virtual Study Lounge where you can interact with other students. Just the facts. No endless, boring discussions here. You'll learn hands on through practical exercises, self-review questions, and real-world answers. Exclusive "Test Your Thinking" projects guarantee you'll go beyond rote knowledge to really master the subject. It's an integrated learning system that's proven to work. Dozens of exercises cover the real-world tasks that matter most.Hundreds of self-review questions and answers make sure you understand.

BENJAMIN ROSENZWEIG is an Integration Specialist at IQ Financial Systems. Prior to that he was a principal consultant for more than 3 years at Oracle Corporation in the Custom Development Department. His computer experience ranges from creating an electronic Tibetan-English Dictionary in Kathmandu, Nepal, to supporting presentations centers at Goldman Sachs and managing a trading system at TIAA-CREF. His previous Prentice Hall PTR publications include Oracle PL/SQL: The Complete Video Course and Oracle Forms Developer: The Complete Video Course.

ELENA SILVESTROVA, a senior software engineer for a prominent New York brokerage firm and securities dealer, has taught relational database programming in Columbia University's CTA program during the past four years. She studied analysis and design at Columbia University and applied mathematics at Baku State University in Azerbaijan.

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Test Your Thinking, except chapter 15.)
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.
Introduction.
1. Programming Concepts.
LAB 1.1 The Nature of a Computer Program and Programming Languages. LAB 1.2 Good Programming Practices.

2. PL/SQL Concepts.
LAB 2.1 PL/SQL in Client-Server Architecture. LAB 2.2 PL/SQL in SQL*Plus.

3. General Programming Language Fundamentals.
LAB 3.1 PL/SQL Programming Fundamentals.

4. SQL in PL/SQL.
LAB 4.1 Making Use of DML in PL/SQL. LAB 4.2 Making Use of SAVEPOINT.

5. Conditional Control: IF Statements.
LAB 5.1 IF Statements. LAB 5.2 ELSIF Statements. LAB 5.3 Nested IF Statements.

6. Conditional Control: Case Statements.
LAB 6.1 CASE Statements. LAB 6.2 CASE Expressions. LAB 6.3 NULLIF and COALESCE Functions. CHAPTER 7 Error Handling and Built-In Exceptions.
LAB 7.1 Handling Errors. LAB 7.2 Built-In Exceptions.

8. Iterative Control.
LAB 8.1 Simple Loops. LAB 8.2 WHILE Loops. LAB 8.3 Numeric FOR Loops. LAB 8.4 Nested Loops.

9. Introduction to Cursors.
LAB 9.1 Cursor Manipulation. LAB 9.2 Using Cursor FOR Loops and Nesting Cursors.

10. Exceptions.
LAB 10.1 Exception Scope. LAB 10.2 User-Defined Exceptions. LAB 10.3 Exception Propagation.

11. Exceptions: Advanced Concepts.
LAB 11.1 RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR. LAB 11.2 EXCEPTION_INIT Pragma. LAB 11.3 SQLCODE and SQLERRM.

12. Procedures.
LAB 12.1 Creating Procedures. LAB 12.2 Passing Parameters In and Out of Procedures.

13. Functions.
LAB 13.1 Creating and Using Functions.

14. Packages.
LAB 14.1 The Benefits of Utilizing Packages.

15. Advanced Cursors.
LAB 15.1 Using Parameters with Cursors and FOR UPDATE Cursors. LAB 15.2 Cursor Variables.

16. Stored Code.
LAB 16.1 Gathering Stored Code Information.

17. Triggers.
LAB 17.1 What Triggers Are. LAB 17.2 Types of Triggers. LAB 17.3 Mutating Table Issues.

18. Collections.
LAB 18.1 PL/SQL Tables. LAB 18.2 Varrays. LAB 18.3 Multilevel Collections.

19. Records.
LAB 19.1 Records. LAB 19.2 Nested Records. LAB 19.3 Collections of Records.

Appendix A. Answers to Self-Review Questions.
Appendix B. PL/SQL Formatting Guide.
Appendix C. Student Database Schema.
Appendix D. Answers to Test Your Thinking Sections.
Appendix E. Oracle 9i SQL New Features.
Index.

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