Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs

http://www.apress.com/oracle/pl-sql/9781430234852

These authors are passionate about PL/SQL and the power it places at your disposal. They want you to succeed, to know all that PL/SQL can offer. Let Expert PL/SQL Practices open your eyes to the full power of Oracle’s world-class language for the database engine.

• Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practices
• Delivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experience
• Covers the functionality that distinguishes PL/SQL as a powerful and scalable programming language for deploying logic inside the database engine

What you’ll learn

• Learn when PL/SQL is best used, and when to avoid it
• Move data efficiently using bulk SQL operations
• Write code that scales through pipelining, parallelism, and profiling
• Choose the right PL/SQL cursor type for any given application
• Reduce coding errors through sound development practices such a