This is absolutely comprehensive reference (and also a rather extensive tutorial) elements in PL / SQL, ideally suited to answer your questions about how to perform some programming tasks and reminding you about the characteristics of functions, triggers, and the other from a database programmer toolkit. This new edition covers calls to Java methods from within PL / SQL programs, autonomous transactions, object type inheritance, and the new Timestamp and XMLType data types. There is also more information about the internal server - the way PL / SQL program is run - than before, better enabling readers to optimize their code for fast and safe implementation. Steven Feuerstein takes care to explain, with prose and example code, the characteristics of PL / SQL elements. Fundamentals of program structure (loops, cases, exceptions, etc.) and execution get attention, as well as data types, transaction management, triggers, and object-oriented aspects of language.