Oracle Database 12c Program with PL SQL

This course is appropriate for:

• Developers
• Technical Consultants
• Database Administrators
• System Analysts.

Trainees will learn to

• Conditionally control code flow (loops, control structures)
• Create stored procedures and functions
•  Use PL/SQL packages to group and contain related constructs.
•  Create triggers to solve business challenges.
• Use some of the Oracle supplied PL/SQL packages to generate screen output and file output.
• Create custom packages for applications.
• Write Dynamic SQL code for applications.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• A thorough knowledge of the SQL language
• Work with SQL *Plus and SQL Developer or similar development environments.

Oracle requires and recommends that delegates have attended the following course prior to attending Oracle Database Program with PL/SQL.

• Required Course: D80174GC10 Oracle Database Introduction to SQL

• Introduction
• Course Objectives
• Course Agenda
• Describe the Human Resources (HR) Schema
• PL/SQL development environments available in this course
• Introduction to SQL Developer
• Introduction to PL/SQL
• Overview of PL/SQL
• Identify the benefits of PL/SQL Subprograms
• Overview of the types of PL/SQL blocks
• Create a Simple Anonymous Block
• How to generate output from a PL/SQL Block?
• List the different Types of Identifiers in a PL/SQL subprogram
• Use variables to store data
• Identify Scalar Data Types
• The %TYPE Attribute
• What are Bind Variables?
• Sequences in PL/SQL Expressions
• Write Executable Statements
• Describe Basic PL/SQL Block Syntax Guidelines
• Learn to Comment the Code
• Deployment of SQL Functions in PL/SQL
• How to convert Data Types?
• Describe Nested Blocks
• Identify the Operators in PL/SQL
• Interaction with the Oracle Server
• Invoke SELECT Statements in PL/SQL
• Retrieve Data in PL/SQL
• SQL Cursor concept
• Avoid Errors by using Naming Conventions when using Retrieval and DML Statements
• Data Manipulation in the Server using PL/SQL
• Understand the SQL Cursor concept
• Use SQL Cursor Attributes to Obtain Feedback on DML
• Save and Discard Transactions
• Control Structures
• Conditional processing using IF Statements
• Conditional processing using CASE Statements
• Describe simple Loop Statement
• Describe While Loop Statement
• Describe For Loop Statement
• Use the Continue Statement
• Composite Data Types
• Use PL/SQL Records
• The %ROWTYPE Attribute
• Insert and Update with PL/SQL Records
• INDEX BY Tables
• Examine INDEX BY Table Methods
• Use INDEX BY Table of Records
• Explicit Cursors
• What are Explicit Cursors?
• Open the Cursor
• Fetch data from the Cursor
• Close the Cursor
• Cursor FOR loop
• The %NOTFOUND and %ROWCOUNT Attributes
• Describe the FOR UPDATE Clause and WHERE CURRENT Clause
• Exception Handling
• Understand Exceptions
• Handle Exceptions with PL/SQL
• Trap Predefined Oracle Server Errors
• Trap Non-Predefined Oracle Server Errors
• Trap User-Defined Exceptions
• Propagate Exceptions
• RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR Procedure
• Stored Procedures
• Create a Modularized and Layered Subprogram Design
• Modularize Development With PL/SQL Blocks
• Understand the PL/SQL Execution Environment
• List the benefits of using PL/SQL Subprograms
• List the differences between Anonymous Blocks and Subprograms
• Create, Call, and Remove Stored Procedures
• Implement Procedures Parameters and Parameters Modes
• View Procedure Information
• Stored Functions and Debugging Subprograms
• Create, Call, and Remove a Stored Function
• Identify the advantages of using Stored Functions
• Identify the steps to create a stored function
• Invoke User-Defined Functions in SQL Statements
• Restrictions when calling Functions
• Control side effects when calling Functions
• View Functions Information
• How to debug Functions and Procedures?
• Packages
• Listing the advantages of Packages
• Describe Packages
• What are the components of a Package?
• Develop a Package
• How to enable visibility of a Package's Components?
• Create the Package Specification and Body using the SQL CREATE Statement and SQL Developer
• Invoke the Package Constructs
• View the PL/SQL Source Code using the Data Dictionary
• Deploying Packages
• Overloading Subprograms in PL/SQL
• Use the STANDARD Package
• Implement Package Functions in SQL and Restrictions
• Persistent State of Packages
• Persistent State of a Package Cursor
• Control side effects of PL/SQL Subprograms
• Invoke PL/SQL Tables of Records in Packages
• Implement Oracle-Supplied Packages in Application Development
• What are Oracle-Supplied Packages?
• Examples of some of the Oracle-Supplied Packages
• How does the DBMS_OUTPUT Package work?
• Use the UTL_FILE Package to Interact with Operating System Files
• Invoke the UTL_MAIL Package
• Write UTL_MAIL Subprograms
• Dynamic SQL
• The Execution Flow of SQL
• What is Dynamic SQL?
• Dynamically Exe