Oracle PL/SQL Programming Class
Oracle PL/SQL Programming Courses in Cape Town
2KO presents Oracle courses in Cape Town by means of full time instructor-led training; as well as internet-accessible online training, which are aimed at International IT Certification exams. 2KO is an IT consulting and training company, offering both business services and training across multiple platforms. 2KO Africa's various courses are available as full time classes, or as online e-learning..
Overview:
2KO International proudly offers Oracle PL/SQL training in Cape Town, South Africa. This course introduces students to PL/SQL and helps them understand the benefits of this powerful programming language. Students learn to create PL/SQL blocks of application code that can be shared by multiple forms, reports, and data management applications. Students learn to create anonymous PL/SQL blocks as well as stored procedures and functions. Students learn to develop, execute, and manage PL\SQL stored program units such as procedures, functions, packages, and database triggers. Students also learn to manage PL/SQL subprograms, triggers, declaring identifiers and trapping exceptions. Students are introduced to the utilization of some of the Oracle-supplied packages.
Target Audience:
Programmers and others working with PL/SQL.
Pre-requisites:
Database administrators, developers with data management responsibilities and others involved in the management or deployment of Oracle 11g databases. Oracle Database 11g basics, or equivalent experience will be of advantage.
Outline:
Introduction and Overview
PL/SQL fundamentals
Declaring variables
Anchoring variables to database definitions
Flow control constructs
Oracle10g and 11g PL/SQL features
PL/Scope in Oracle 11g
CASE statement process flow
Referencing PL/SQL records in DML
Improving performance with native compilation
Handling regular expressions with Oracle 10g functions
Compound triggers in Oracle 11g
Multiset operators for collections
Data Manipulation
Techniques
Maintaining data
with DML statements
Employing the RETURNING INTO clause
Solving the fetch-across-commit problem
Managing data retrieval with cursors
Implications of explicit and implicit cursors
Cursor attributes
Simplifying cursor processing with cursor FOR LOOPs
Embedding cursor expressions in SELECT statements
Cursor variables
Strong vs. weak cursor variables
Passing cursor variables to other programs
Defining REF CURSORS in packages
Developing Well-Structured
and Error-Free Code
Error
handling using EXCEPTIONS
Predefined and user EXCEPTIONs
Propagation and scope
"Retrying" problem transactions with EXCEPTION processing
Debugging PL/SQL blocks
Simplifying testing and debugging with conditional compilation
Interpreting compiler messages
Applying structured testing techniques
Achieving Maximum
Reusability
Writing stored
procedures and functions
Calling and invoking server-side logic
Passing input and output parameters
Implementing an autonomous transaction
Definer rights vs. invoker rights
Coding user-written functions
Calling PL/SQL functions from SQL
Building table-valued functions
Developing safe triggers
Employing :OLD and :NEW bind variables in row-level triggers
Implementing complex business rules
Avoiding unreliable trigger constructs
Exploiting schema and database triggers
Exploiting Complex
Datatypes
Collection types
PL/SQL tables, nested tables, VARRAYs
Stepping through dense and non-consecutive collections
Bulk binding for high performance
Moving data into and out of PL/SQL blocks
BULK COLLECT INTO
FORALL
BULK cursor attributes
BULK EXCEPTION handling
Invoking Native Dynamic
SQL
Finessing the
compiler
The EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statement
The RETURNING INTO clause
Types of dynamic SQL
Building SQL statements during runtime
Auto-generating standard code
Package Tips and Techniques
Package structure: SPEC and BODY
Eliminating dependency problems
Overloading for polymorphic effects
Evaluating application frameworks
Bodiless packages for all application definitions
Declaring and using persistent global variables