Handbook for Writing Technical Proposals That Win Contracts - Hardcover

Helgeson, Donald V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133796868 ISBN 13: 9780133796865

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1985

Synopsis

Using PL/SQL for Oracle Database 12c, you can build solutions that deliver unprecedented performance and efficiency in any environment, including the cloud. Oracle® PL/SQL by Example, Fifth Edition, teaches all the PL/SQL skills you’ll need, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects. Now fully updated for the newest version of PL/SQL, it covers everything from basic syntax and program control through the latest optimization and security enhancements.

 

Step by step, you’ll walk through every key task, mastering today’s most valuable Oracle 12cPL/SQL programming techniques on your own. Start by downloading projects and exercises from informit.com/title/0133796787. Once you’ve done an exercise, the authors don’t just present the answer: They offer an in-depth discussion introducing deeper insights and modern best practices.

 

This book’s approach fully reflects the authors’ award-winning experience teaching PL/SQL to professionals at Columbia University. New database developers and DBAs can use it to get productive fast; experienced PL/SQL programmers will find it to be a superb Oracle Database 12csolutions reference.

 

New in This Edition

• Updated code examples throughout
• Result-caching of invoker’s right functions for better performance
• Extended support for PL/SQL-only data types in dynamic SQL, OCI, and JDBC
• Security enhancements, including ACCESSIBLE BY whitelists, improved privilege control, and Invisible Columns

 

Other topics covered

• Mastering basic PL/SQL concepts and language fundamentals, and understanding SQL’s role in PL/SQL
• Using conditional and iterative program control, including CONTINUE and CONTINUE WHEN
• Efficiently handling errors and exceptions
• Working with cursors and triggers, including compound triggers
• Using stored procedures, functions, and packages to write modular code that other programs can run
• Working with collections, object-relational features, native dynamic SQL, bulk SQL, and other advanced features

 

About this title

Product Description:

Like the previous edition, this tutorial is an integrated learning solution that teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects. Completely updated for Oracle 12c, it covers all the fundamentals, from PL/SQL syntax and program control through packages and optimization.

 

This book’s approach reflects the authors’ award-winning experience teaching PL/SQL programming to professionals.  Providing readers with the accompanying schema that can be used for practice allows the authors to explain PL/SQL concepts through examples.  Each concept is explained first, then illustrated via examples and interactive labs that introduce topics about Oracle PL/SQL. The topics are discussed briefly and then explored through exercises. Each exercise consists of a series of steps followed to perform a specific task, along with questions designed to help you discover the important things about PL/SQL programming on your own. The answers to the questions are then given with more in-depth discussion of the topics. In this way the answers are not just solutions to the exercises but a continuation of the learning process. The exercises are intended to act as your guide to walk you through a particular task.  Finally, at the end of each chapter there is a "Test Your Thinking" section made up of a series of projects designed to solidify all of the skills learned in the chapter.

 

Key topics covered include:

• Using conditional and iterative program control techniques, including the new CONTINUE and CONTINUE WHEN statements
• Efficiently handling errors and exceptions
• Using stored procedures, functions, and packages to write modular code that other programs can execute
• Working with collections, object-relational features, native dynamic SQL, bulk SQL, and other advanced PL/SQL capabilities
• Handy reference appendices: PL/SQL formatting guide, sample database schema, ANSI SQL standards reference

About the Author:

Benjamin Rosenzweig is a senior project manager at Misys Financial Software, where he has worked since 2002. Prior to that he was a principal consultant for more than three years at Oracle Corporation in the Custom Development Department. His computer experience ranges from creating an electronic Tibetan—English Dictionary in Kathmandu, Nepal, to supporting presentation centers at Goldman Sachs and managing a trading system at TIAA-CREF. Benjamin has been an instructor at the Columbia University Computer Technology and Application program in New York City since 1998. In 2002 he was awarded the “Outstanding Teaching Award” from the Chair and Director of the CTA program. He holds a B.A. from Reed College and a certificate in database development and design from Columbia University. His previous books with Prentice Hall are Oracle Forms Developer: The Complete Video Course (2000), and Oracle Web Application Programming for PL/SQL Developers (2003).

 

Elena Rakhimov has over 20 years of experience in database architecture and development in a wide spectrum of enterprise and business environments ranging from non-profit organizations to Wall Street to her current position with a prominent software company where she heads up the database team.  Her determination to stay "hands-on" notwithstanding, Elena managed to excel in the academic arena having taught relational database programming at Columbia University’s highly esteemed Computer Technology and Applications program. She was educated in database analysis and design at Columbia University and in applied mathematics at Baku State University in Azerbaijan. She currently resides in Vancouver, Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0133796868
• ISBN 13: 9780133796865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218