Integrated learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL / SQL skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects! One step at a time, you? Will walk through every key task, discovering the most important PL / SQL programming techniques on your own. Books? The approach fully reflects the author? Coverage includes ? Mastering basic PL / SQL concepts and fundamentals of programming languages in general, and understanding SQL's role? In PL / SQL ? Working with collections, object-relational features, native dynamic SQL, bulk SQL, and other advanced PL / SQL capabilities ? Handy reference attachment: PL / SQL formatting guide, sample database schema, ANSI SQL standards reference, and more Benjamin Rosenzweig is a Software Development Manager at Misys. Silvestrova Elena Rakhimov is Senior Developer and Team Lead at Alea Software. He has taught database programming at Columbia University. Content Acknowledgments xiv About the Authors xv Introduction xvii CHAPTER 1 PL / SQL Concepts 1 LAB 1.1 PL / SQL in Client / Server Architecture 2 1.1.1 Use PL / SQL Anonymous Blocks 8 1.1.2 Understand How PL / SQL Gets Executed 10 LAB 1.2 PL / SQL in SQL * Plus 12 1.2.1 Use Substitution Variables 16 1.2.2 Use the DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE Statement 17 Chapter 1 Try 19 Yourself CHAPTER 2 General Programming Language Fundamental 21 LAB 2.1 PL / SQL Programming Fundamentals 22 2.1.1 Creating a Component Using Language PL / SQL 23 2.1.2 Make Use of PL / SQL Variables 24 2.1.3 Handle PL / SQL Reserved Words 26 2.1.4 Make Use of Identifiers in PL / SQL 27 2.1.5 Make Use of Anchored Datatypes 28 2.1.6 Declare and Initialize Variables 31 2.1.7 Understand the Scope Block, Nested Blocks, and Labels 34 Chapter 2 Try it Yourself 37 CHAPTER 3 SQL in PL / SQL 39 LAB 3.1 Making Use DML in a PL / SQL 40 3.1.1 Use the Select INTO Syntax for Variable Initialization 41 3.1.2 Use DML in Block / PL SQL 42 3.1.3 Making Use of Block Sequence / PL SQL 44 LAB 3.2 Making Use of SAVEPOINT 45 3.2.1 Make Use of COMMIT, ROLLBACK, and SAVEPOINT in Block / PL SQL 48 51 Chapter 3 Try it Yourself CHAPTER 4 Conditional Control: IF Statements 53 LAB 1.4 IF Statements 54 4.1.1 Use the IF-THEN Statement 58 4.1.2 Use the IF-THEN Statement 62-OTHER LAB 4.2 ELSIF Statements 65 4.2.1 Use the ELSIF Statement 69 LAB 4.3 Nested IF Statements 74 4.3.1 Use Nested IF Statements 76 Chapter 4 Try it Yourself 80 CHAPTER 5 Conditional Control: CASE Statements 81 LAB 5.1 CASE Statements 82 5.1.1 Use the CASE Statement 89 5.1.2 Use the Searched CASE Statement 91 LAB 5.2 CASE Expressions 96 5.2.1 Use the CASE Expression 100 LAB 5.3 NULLIF and merge function 103 5.3.1 The NULLIF Function 107 5.3.2 Use the function merge 109 Chapter 5 Try it Yourself 112 ARGIN: 0px "> CHAPTER 6 Design of Control: Part I 113 LAB 6.1 Simple Loops 114 6.1.1 Use Simple Loops with EXIT 118 Conditions 6.1.2 Use Simple Loops with EXIT WHEN Conditions 120 LAB 6.2 WHILE Loops 124 6.2.1 Use WHILE Loops 128 LAB 6.3 Numeric FOR Loops 132 6.3.1 Use Numeric FOR Loops with the IN Option 137 6.3.2 Use Numeric FOR Loops with the REVERSE Option 139 Chapter 6 Try it Yourself 142 Design of Control Chapter 7: Part II 143 LAB 7.1 CONTINUE Statement 144 7.1.1 Use t. ..