Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to catch ...

This fifth edition of a well-known title has been updated for Oracle 12c. As with previous editions, the book is very hands-on; you’re introduced to a concept, shown an example, then asked to work ...

At the inception of relational database systems and into the 1980s, the only portable interface for applications was embedded SQL. At that time, there was no common function API such as a ...

A clear delegation of work exists between the HTML and PL/SQL in your company's Web pages: PL/SQL code fetches and manipulates data from SQL databases, and HTML code formats the results of PL/SQL ...

Have you noticed that dynamic SQL is more popular today than ever before? There are a number of factors contributing to the success of dynamic SQL. Commercial off-the-shelf applications, such as SAP, ...

This is the sixth edition of a well established title that has been updated for the latest version of PL/SQL (21c). The book opens with a checklist of the new features in Oracle 21c before the actual ...