This is a companion to Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl's bestselling Oracle PL / SQL Programming. Quick start leads to the most important PL / SQL information into an accessible summary: Fundamental elements of language (eg, block structure, data types, declarations) Statements of program control, management of the cursor, and handlingRecords exceptions, procedures, functions, triggers, and packagesCalling PL / SQL function in a choice SQLCompilation, object-oriented features, collections, and Java Integration new edition describes such Oracle Database 11g elements as PL / SQL function result cache 's, compound triggers, CONTINUE statement, the datatype SIMPLE_INTEGER, and repair the original compilation, regular expressions, and compiler optimization (including intra-unit inlining).