Oracle and PL/SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

✍ Scribed by Josh Juneau, Matt Arena (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Oracle PL/SQL Recipes is your go to book for PL/SQL programming solutions. It takes a task-oriented approach to PL/SQL programming that lets you quickly look up a specific task and see the pattern for a solution. Then it's as simple as modifying the pattern for your specific application and implementing it. And you're done and home for dinner.

Oracle PL/SQL Recipes is another in Apress' ongoing series of recipe books aimed at Oracle practitioners. The recipe format is ideal for the busy professional who just needs to get the job done.

• Covers the most common PL/SQL programming problems
• Presents solutions in ready-to-use format
• Stays short and to-the-point

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxix
PL/SQL Fundamentals....Pages 1-14
Essential SQL....Pages 15-42
Looping and Logic....Pages 43-61
Functions, Packages, and Procedures....Pages 63-92
Triggers....Pages 93-117
Type Conversion....Pages 119-132
Numbers, Strings, and Dates....Pages 133-153
Dynamic SQL....Pages 155-186
Exceptions....Pages 187-213
PL/SQL Collections and Records....Pages 215-232
Automating Routine Tasks....Pages 233-245
Oracle SQL Developer....Pages 247-279
Analyzing and Improving Performance....Pages 281-290
Using PL/SQL on the Web....Pages 291-318
Java in the Database....Pages 319-344
Accessing PL/SQL from JDBC, HTTP, Groovy, and Jython....Pages 345-359
Unit Testing With utPLSQL....Pages 361-390
Back Matter....Pages 391-411

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Database Management