The latest edition of this classic reference has been updated to cover Oracle Database 10g. Among the Oracle 10g features examined include regular expression support, native compilation, and new datatypes. The book also includes discussions on language syntax, how to build real applications, and how to apply best practices. Written by the world's foremost PL/SQL authority, Steven Feuerstein.
The authors have revised and updated this bestseller to include both the Oracle8i and new Oracle9i Internet-savvy database products.
In this compact book, Steven Feuerstein, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, distills his many years of programming, teaching, and writing about PL/SQL into a set of best practices-recommendations for developing successful applications. Covering the latest Oracle release, Oracle Database 11gR2, Feuerstein has rewritten this new edition in the style of his bestselling Oracle PL/SQL Programming. The text is organized in a problem/solution format, and chronicles the programming exploits of developers at a mythical company called My Flimsy Excuse, Inc., as they write code, make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes-and each other. This book offers practical answers to some of the hardest questions faced by PL/SQL developers, including: What is the best way to write the SQL logic in my application code? How should I write my packages so they can be leveraged by my entire team of developers? How can I make sure that all my team's programs handle and record errors consistently? Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices summarizes PL/SQL best practices in nine major categories: overall PL/SQL application development; programming standards; program testing, tracing, and debugging; variables and data structures; control logic; error handling; the use of SQL in PL/SQL; building procedures, functions, packages, and triggers; and overall program performance. This book is a concise and entertaining guide that PL/SQL developers will turn to again and again as they seek out ways to write higher quality code and more successful applications. "This book presents ideas that make the difference between a successful project and one that never gets off the ground. It goes beyond just listing a set of rules, and provides realistic scenarios that help the reader understand where the rules come from. This book should be required reading for any team of Oracle database professionals." --Dwayne King, President, KRIDAN Consulting
Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, this text offers extensive exercises in all skill levels covering major features of the language. Also provides a primer to the PL/SQL language.
Die vierte Auflage dieser beliebten Taschenreferenz liefert Ihnen die wichtigsten Informationen, die Sie für die Arbeit mit Oracle PL/SQL benötigen, und deckt jetzt auch die neuen Features von Oracle Database 11g ab. Das Buch bietet eine Zusammenfassung der Sprachelemente und Funktionen von PL/SQL und behandelt unter anderem folgende Themen: * Blockstruktur, Bezeichner, Variablen, Datentypen und Deklarationen * Anweisungen zur Ablaufsteuerung, zur Cursor-Verwaltung und zum Exception-Handling * Aufruf von PL/SQL-Funktionen in SQL * Datensätze, Prozeduren, Funktionen, Trigger und Packages * Kompilationsoptionen, objektorientierte Features und Collections Die neue Auflage behandelt außerdem neue Oracle Database 11g-Features wie den Funktionsergebnis-Cache von PL/SQL, zusammengesetzte Trigger, die CONTINUE-Anweisung, den Datentyp SIMPLE_INTEGER sowie Verbesserungen im Bereich der nativen Kompilierung, bei regulären Ausdrücken und der Compiler-Optimierung (einschließlich der Einbettung von Funktionsaufrufen). Zusätzlich enthält das Buch jetzt umfangreiche neue Abschnitte zu Oracles eingebauten Funktionen und Packages.
A complete reference to all of the built-ins, including the new packages available with Oracle8, this book provides extensive examples and comes with a disk containing an online tool developed by RevealNet, Inc., that provides point-and-click access to the many files of source code and online documentation developed by the authors.
