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