What’s Next?

The next chapter begins the discussion of functions. A function is an Oracle object that returns a value. Oracle has a large variety of functions. The next chapter covers the character functions, which can be used to determine the length of a value, to change the characters to uppercase, or to extract a set of characters from a target value.

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