Expert Oracle Pl/Sql (Oracle Press) - Softcover

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Michael is a professor at BYU - Idaho in the Computer Information Technology Department of the Business and Communication School. He teaches courses on CIT management, databases and systems analysis and design. He is the author of Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming, Oracle Database 11g and Oracle MySQL 5.6, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition PHP Web Programming, and co-author of four other Oracle Press books. He's an Oracle ACE and speaker at Oracle User Group Meetings. He worked at Oracle Corporation for over eight years in Consulting, Development and Support, working with the database, tools and Oracle E-Business Suite. He left Oracle as the Senior Applications Upgrade Manger in E-Business Suite Release Engineering.

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Create and debug next-generation, feature-rich PL/SQL applications

Push your PL/SQL programming skills to the next level with the extensive information contained in this volume. You’ll learn how to write dynamic PL/SQL programs, interface with Oracle databases, execute complex calculations, and handle error conditions using advanced techniques. Plus, you’ll get the latest on the PL/SQL Toolkit, Java integration, code threading, and performance optimizing. Oracle professionals Ron Hardman and Michael McLaughlin cover all the bases, providing real-world examples, undocumented tricks, syntax samples, and unique solutions for every topic.

• Compile high performance PL/SQL scripts using procedures, functions, packages and triggers
• Trap, trace, identify, and eliminate compile-time and runtime errors
• Manage error propagation, stacks, regular expressions, and metacharacters
• Exploit definer’s-rights and invoker’s-rights architectures
• Extend PL/SQL functionality using server-side and internal Java class libraries
• Build and run parallel PL/SQL program units using DBMS_JOB and DBMS_PIPE
• Exploit definer’s-rights and invoker’s-rights architectures
• Tune performance using statistics gathering, the PL/SQL optimizer, SQL Trace, DBMS_STATS, and TKPROF
• Use Oracle Text with PL/SQL Server Pages to perform theme/gist extraction, highlighting, stemming, fuzzy, and wildcard searching
• Administer server-side PL/SQL Toolkit web pages and PL/SQL Server Pages
• Secure, encrypt, and transmit data using DBMS_CRYPTO, UTL_COMPRESS, DBMS_DATAPUMP, and DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER