Expert Oracle PL/SQL

Part I: PL/SQL Advanced Concepts, Internals, and Debugging

Chapter 1: Introduction to Advanced Concepts, Patterns, and Techniques

Chapter 2: PL/SQL Internals

Chapter 3: Debugging PL/SQL Applications

Part II: Invoker Rights, Java Libraries, and Object Patterns

Chapter 4: Invoker's-Rights Architecture

Chapter 5: Extending PL/SQL with Java Libraries

Chapter 6: Implementing PL/SQL Objects

Part III: Optimizing PL/SQL Solutions

Chapter 7: Threading PL/SQL Execution

Chapter 8: High Performance PL/SQL

Part IV: Text Management Using PL/SQL

Chapter 9: Introduction to Information Retrieval

Chapter 10: Introduction to Regular Expressions

Part V: PL/SQL Server Pages and Database Management

Chapter 11: Leveraging the PL/SQL Toolkit

Chapter 12: Managing the Database

Appendix A: REGULAR EXPRESSION METACHARACTERS AND FUNCTIONS

Appendix B: ORACLE TEXT SUPPLIED PACKAGES

Appendix C: PL/SQL TOOLKIT PACKAGES

Appendix D: BASIC PRIMER ON JAVA AND JAVA DATABASE CONNECTIVITY (JDBC)

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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

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