Program Units
The PL/SQL programming language allows you to create a variety of named program units (containers for code). They include:
- Procedure
Program that executes one or more statements.
- Function
Program that executes one or more statements and that directly returns a value.
- Package
Container for procedures, functions, and data structures.
- Triggers
Program that executes in response to database changes.
- Object type
Oracle’s version of a class in an object-oriented language; object types can contain member procedures and functions. An object type can contain PL/SQL code in its methods.
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