PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference

Audience

Anyone developing applications for the Oracle Server will benefit from reading this guide. Written especially for programmers, this comprehensive treatment of PL/SQL will also be of value to systems analysts, project managers, and others interested in database applications. To use this guide effectively, you need a working knowledge of the following subjects:

a procedural programming language such as Ada, C, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, or PL/I

the SQL database language

Oracle concepts and terminology

Oracle application development tools

You will not find installation instructions or system-specific information in this guide. For that kind of information, see the Oracle installation or user's guide for your system.