PL/SQL Packages

Overview/Description
To create and work with Oracle 10g packages

Target Audience
Database administrators, application developers, and database operators

Prerequisites
Familiarity with Oracle Database 10g database technology; an understanding of the basic concepts of relational databases, the SQL programming language, and stored procedures; ability to write queries against single and multiple tables, manipulate data in tables, create database objects, and query metadata

Expected Duration (hours)
2.8

Lesson Objectives

PL/SQL Packages

recognize the structure of a package and outline the visibility of its components.

create a package in PL/SQL for a given scenario.

select the code required to invoke a package subprogram and view and remove packages in PL/SQL.

create, invoke, and view a package.

use PL/SQL overloading and the standard package to declare and access subprograms.

implement a forward declaration in a PL/SQL package and initialize package variables.

identify the functions of the PL/SQL wrapper and the features of the wrapped code.

overload a subprogram in a package, initialize package variables, and wrap PL/SQL code.

outline the role of package functions and identify the restrictions associated with calling package and stored functions from SQL expressions.