The target audience for this course is all Oracle professionals. Among the specific groups for whom
this course will be helpful are:
- Application designers and database developers
- Database administrators
- Web server administrators
Oracle Training Prerequisites
Either of the course Oracle Database 12c: SQL Fundamentals (Levels I & II) or Oracle
Database 12c: SQL Complete Library (Levels I, II, & III) are recommended prerequisites for this
course.
Oracle Training Certification
This course considers subjects applicable to certification as both an Oracle PL/SQL Developer
Certified Associate (OCA) and an Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional (OCP). The
topics considered are included within "Exam 1Z0-144: Program With PL/SQL".
Oracle Training Objectives
This course begins with an explanation of the intent and usage of the PL/SQL programming
language for database applications. Important reasons why one should incorporate PL/SQL modules
within the application architecture right from the initial design and planning phase are presented.
Next one learns how to begin building executable PL/SQL program units. One learns about each of the
major segments of a working program and how these interact with each other during program
execution, including the important error or exception handling capabilities of the language. The final
section goes beyond the basics and begins to explore advanced topics that will be useful later in the
Oracle PL/SQL developer course series. One learns techniques and features that allow
modular and reusable programs to be developed, increasing productivity and maintainability of
database applications.
Course duration
2-3 Days
Oracle Training Course outline
SELECTION & SETUP OF THE DATABASE INTERFACE
- CONSIDERING AVAILABLE TOOLS
- SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE TOOL
- ORACLE NET DATABASE CONNECTIONS
- ORACLE PAAS DATABASE CONNECTIONS
- SETUP SQL DEVELOPER
- SETUP SQL*PLUS
- SETUP JDEVELOPER
ABOUT BIND & SUBSTITUTION VARIABLES
- USING SQL DEVELOPER
- USING SQL*PLUS
CHOOSING A DATABASE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
- WHAT IS DATABASE PROGRAMMING?
- PL/SQL PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGES
- INTEGRATION WITH OTHER LANGUAGES
PL/SQL LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS
- PL/SQL PROGRAM STRUCTURE
- LANGUAGE SYNTAX RULES
- EMBEDDING SQL
- WRITING READABLE CODE
- GENERATING DATABASE OUTPUT
- SQL*PLUS INPUT OF A PROGRAM BLOCK
DECLARE SECTION
- ABOUT THE DECLARE SECTION
- DECLARE PRIMITIVE TYPES
- DECLARATION OPTIONS
- NOT NULL
- CONSTANT
- DATA DICTIONARY INTEGRATION
- %TYPE
- DECLARE SIMPLE USER-DEFINED TYPES
- TYPE ... TABLE
- TYPE ... RECORD
- EXTENDED USER-DEFINED TYPES
BEGIN SECTION
- ABOUT THE BEGIN SECTION
- MANIPULATING PROGRAM DATA
- LOGIC CONTROL & BRANCHING
- GOTO
- LOOP
- IF-THEN-ELSE
- CASE
EXCEPTION SECTION
- ABOUT THE EXCEPTION SECTION
- ISOLATING THE SPECIFIC EXCEPTION
- PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT
- SQLCODE & SQLERRM Example
- SQL%ROWCOUNT & SELECT...INTO
BEYOND THE BASICS: EXPLICIT CURSORS
- ABOUT EXPLICIT CURSORS
- EXTENDED CURSOR TECHNIQUES
- FOR UPDATE OF Clause
- WHERE CURRENT OF Clause
- Using FOR…LOOP Cursors
BEYOND THE BASICS: NESTED BLOCKS
BEYOND THE BASICS: DECLARED SUBPROGRAMS
- USING DECLARED SUBPROGRAMS
- DECLARED PROCEDURE
- DECLARED FUNCTION
