Oracle Training : Oracle Database 10g: Program With PL/SQL

Oracle Database 10g: Program With PL/SQL – Part I

Oracle Training Overview

This Oracle 10g courseware training guide book will consider the grammar, syntax and benefits of using the PL/SQL language within an Oracle database environment. The Oracle PL/SQL language provides for programming logic features not contained within SQL.

Oracle Training Prerequisites

The course ORACLE DATABASE 10G: INTRODUCTION TO SQL – COMPLETE LIBRARY

Oracle Training Audience

Target audience for this course is all Oracle professionals. Among the specific groups for whom this course will be helpful are:

Application designers and developers.
Database administrators

Oracle Training Objectives

The primary objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the PL/SQL database programming language, based upon the latest features available with the Oracle10g Release 2 (R2) revision. Major subject areas to be explored are:

Understand the environment and context in which PL/SQL operates.
Consider the advantages and benefits of PL/SQL within a database environment.
Declaring program variables and complex data types.
Developing logic within PL/SQL program blocks.
Fetching data from the database into program variables.
Returning program output to users.
Handling program exceptions.
Using explicit and implicit database cursors.
Using the advanced features of nested blocks and subprograms.
How to take advantage of new features such as regular expression support and the handling of string literals within program code.

Oracle Training Certification

This course considers subjects included within the Oracle Certification Examination 1Z0-147 entitled "Program With PL/SQL". This examination is part of the following Oracle certification tracks:

Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate (OCA)
Oracle Forms Developer Certified Professional (OCP)

Oracle Training Course duration

2 Days

Oracle Training Course outline

LANGUAGE FEATURES
• UNDERSTANDING PL/SQL
• STRUCTURE OF A PL/SQL PROGRAM BLOCK
• PL/SQL FROM INTERACTIVE TOOLS
• GENERATING OUTPUT WITHIN SQL*PLUS

DECLARE CLAUSE
• ABOUT THE DECLARE CLAUSE
• DECLARE SIMPLE TYPES
• COMPLEX TYPES
• TYPE ... TABLE
• TYPE ... RECORD

BEGIN CLAUSE
• ABOUT THE BEGIN CLAUSE
• PERFORMING DATA MANIPULATION
• LOGIC CONTROL & BRANCHING
• IF-THEN-ELSE
• CASE

EXCEPTION CLAUSE
• ABOUT THE EXCEPTION CLAUSE
• ISOLATING THE SPECIFIC EXCEPTION
• PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT
• SQL%ROWCOUNT & SELECT...INTO

EXPLICIT CURSORS
• ABOUT EXPLICIT CURSORS
• ADVANCED CURSOR TECHNIQUES

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING: NESTED BLOCKS

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING: DECLARED SUBPROGRAMS