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Create and debug next-generation, feature-rich PL/SQL applications
Push your PL/SQL programming skills to the next level with the extensive information contained in this volume. You’ll learn how to write dynamic PL/SQL programs, interface with Oracle databases, execute complex calculations, and handle error conditions using advanced techniques. Plus, you’ll get the latest on the PL/SQL Toolkit, Java integration, code threading, and performance optimizing. Oracle professionals Ron Hardman and Michael McLaughlin cover all the bases, providing real-world examples, undocumented tricks, syntax samples, and unique solutions for every topic.
Compile high performance PL/SQL scripts using procedures, functions, packages and triggers
Trap, trace, identify, and eliminate compile-time and runtime errors
Manage error propagation, stacks, regular expressions, and metacharacters
Exploit definer’s-rights and invoker’s-rights architectures
Extend PL/SQL functionality using server-side and internal Java class libraries
Build and run parallel PL/SQL program units using DBMS_JOB and DBMS_PIPE
Tune performance using statistics gathering, the PL/SQL optimizer, SQL Trace, DBMS_STATS, and TKPROF
Use Oracle Text with PL/SQL Server Pages to perform theme/gist extraction, highlighting, stemming, fuzzy, and wildcard searching
Administer server-side PL/SQL Toolkit web pages and PL/SQL Server Pages
Secure, encrypt, and transmit data using DBMS_CRYPTO, UTL_COMPRESS, DBMS_DATAPUMP, and DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER