Oracle® PL/SQL Training

Course 493

  • Duration: 5 days
  • Labs: Yes
  • Language: English
  • Level: Intermediate

This Oracle® PL/SQL training course will teach you to increase the productivity, performance, scalability, portability, and security of your Oracle database. With this training, you will learn how to execute PL/SQL programmes in Oracle, build stored procedures, design and execute modular applications, and increase the efficiency of data movement — essential skills for any Oracle developer.

Oracle PL/SQL Programming Training Delivery Methods

  • In-Person

  • Online

Oracle PL/SQL Programming Training Course Information

In this Oracle PL/SQL Programming training, you will learn how to:

  • Develop efficient PL/SQL programmes to access Oracle databases. 
  • Create stored procedures and functions for reuse and maintenance. 
  • Design modular applications using packages. 
  • Manage data retrieval for front-end applications. 
  • Invoke native dynamic SQL to develop high-level abstract code. 

Oracle PL/SQL Programming Training Course Prerequisites

Students taking this course should have basic knowledge of SQL as taught in Learning Tree course 925, Introduction to SQL Course.

Oracle PL/SQL Course Outline

PL/SQL fundamentals

  • Declaring and anchoring variables to database definitions
  • Flow control constructs

Oracle 11g and 12c PL/SQL features

  • PL/Scope in Oracle 11g
  • Returning implicit cursor results from stored procedures in Oracle 12c
  • Declaring local functions within SELECT statements in Oracle 12c

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
  • 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 programmes
  • Defining REF CURSORS in packages

Error handling using 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
  • Building and applying a test bed
  • Leveraging the debugging facilities in SQL Developer

Writing stored procedures and functions

  • Calling and invoking server-side logic
  • Passing input and output parameters
  • Implementing an autonomous transaction

Coding user-written functions

  • Calling PL/SQL functions from SQL
  • Building table-valued functions

Developing safe triggers

  • Employing :OLD and :NEW variables
  • Avoiding unreliable trigger constructs
  • Exploiting schema and database triggers

Collection types

  • PL/SQL tables, nested tables, VARRAYs
  • Stepping through dense and nonconsecutive collections

Bulk binding for high performance

  • Moving data into and out of PL/SQL blocks
  • BULK COLLECT INTO and FORALL
  • BULK cursor attributes
  • BULK EXCEPTION handling

Finessing the compiler

  • The EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statement
  • The RETURNING INTO clause

Types of dynamic SQL

  • Building SQL statements during runtime
  • Autogenerating standard code
  • Package structure: SPEC and BODY
  • Eliminating dependency problems
  • Overloading for polymorphic effects
  • Evaluating application frameworks
  • Declaring and using persistent global variables

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Course FAQs

This course is currently running on Oracle 12c.

Yes! We know your busy work schedule may prevent you from getting to one of our classrooms, which is why we offer convenient online training to meet your needs wherever you want, including online training.