Introduction

Oracle Database is one of the most advanced relational databases available. It includes technologies that empower you to work with your data in ways that no other database offers. In the early days of Oracle Database, Structured Query Language (SQL) was used to work directly with the data, but as time went on, people turned to other languages outside the database for performing more sophisticated tasks with data. Although these procedural languages offered a powerful way to harness data, developers and database administrators wanted a language that was easier to use and bound more closely to the data. Oracle Corporation addressed that need by introducing Procedural Language/Structured Query Language (PL/SQL) into Oracle Database ...

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