Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Guide - Second Edition.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gupta, Saurabh K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited Feb. 2016.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Oracle (Computer file)
PL/SQL.
Database design.
Bases de données > Conception.
Database design
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Credits
  • About the Author
  • About the Reviewers
  • www.PacktPub.com
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Overview of PL/SQL Programming Concepts
  • Introduction to PL/SQL
  • PL/SQL program fundamentals
  • Cursors
  • an overview
  • The cursor execution cycle
  • Cursor attributes
  • Cursor FOR loop
  • Exception handling in PL/SQL
  • System-defined exceptions
  • User-defined exceptions
  • The RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR procedure
  • Exception propagation
  • Creating stored procedures
  • Executing a procedure
  • Functions
  • Functions
  • execution methods
  • Restrictions on calling functions from SQL expressions
  • A PL/SQL package
  • Oracle Database 12c enhancements to PL/SQL subprograms
  • Managing database dependencies
  • Displaying the direct and indirect dependencies
  • Dependency metadata
  • Dependency issues and enhancements
  • Reviewing Oracle-supplied packages
  • Oracle SQL Developer
  • Oracle SQL Developer for DBA, Developers, and Application Architects
  • SQL Developer 4.0
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise
  • Chapter 2: Oracle 12c SQL and PL/SQL New Features
  • Database consolidation and the new Multitenant architecture
  • The Oracle Database 12c Multitenant architecture
  • features
  • Multitenant for Consolidation
  • Plug/unplug
  • Manage Many as One
  • Rapid provisioning
  • CDB Resource Management
  • Common users and local users
  • Oracle 12c SQL and PL/SQL new features
  • IDENTITY columns
  • Default column value to a sequence in Oracle 12c
  • The DEFAULT ON NULL clause
  • Support for 32K VARCHAR2
  • Row limiting using FETCH FIRST
  • Invisible columns
  • Temporal databases
  • In-Database Archiving
  • Defining a PL/SQL subprogram in the SELECT query and PRAGMA UDF
  • Test setup
  • Comparative analysis
  • The PL/SQL program unit white listing
  • Granting roles to PL/SQL program units
  • Test setup.
  • Miscellaneous PL/SQL enhancements
  • The Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.2) In-Memory option
  • The challenge
  • The problem statement and Oracle Database 12c In-Memory
  • Oracle Database 12c In-Memory option features
  • The Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Architecture
  • Controlling the In-Memory column store
  • The INMEMORY clause
  • Performance optimizations
  • In-Memory Advisor
  • Oracle Database In-Memory benefits
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3: Designing PL/SQL Code
  • Cursor structures
  • Cursor execution cycle
  • Cursor attributes
  • Implicit cursors
  • Explicit cursors
  • Cursor variables
  • Strong and weak ref cursor types
  • Working with cursor variables
  • SYS_REFCURSOR
  • Cursor variables as arguments
  • Cursor variables
  • restrictions
  • Cursor design considerations
  • Cursor design-guidelines
  • Implicit statement results in Oracle Database 12c
  • Subtypes
  • Subtype classification
  • Type compatibility with subtypes
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise
  • Chapter 4: Using Collections
  • Introduction to collections
  • Collection types
  • Associative arrays
  • Nested tables
  • Modify and drop a nested table object type
  • Design considerations of a nested table
  • Nested table storage
  • Nested table in an index
  • organized table
  • Nested table locators
  • Nested table as the schema object
  • Operations on a nested table type column
  • Nested table collection type in PL/SQL
  • Querying the nested table metadata
  • Nested table comparison functions
  • Multiset operations on nested tables
  • Varray
  • Varray as a schema object
  • Operations on varray type columns
  • Varray in PL/SQL
  • Comparing the collection types
  • Selecting the appropriate collection type
  • Oracle 12c enhancements to collections
  • PL/SQL collection methods
  • EXISTS
  • COUNT
  • LIMIT
  • FIRST and LAST
  • PRIOR and NEXT
  • EXTEND
  • TRIM
  • DELETE
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise.
  • Chapter 5: Using Advanced Interface Methods
  • Overview of External Procedures
  • External Procedures
  • Components of external procedure execution flow
  • The extproc agent
  • The Library object
  • Callout and Callback
  • Call Specification
  • How an External Procedure executes
  • Environment setup
  • TNSNAMES.ora
  • EXTPROC.ora
  • Executing external C programs from PL/SQL
  • Securing External Procedures with Oracle Database 12c
  • Executing Java programs from PL/SQL
  • Loading a Java class into a database
  • Steps to execute a Java class from an Oracle PL/SQL unit
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise
  • Chapter 6: Virtual Private Database
  • Oracle Database Security overview
  • Fine-Grained Access Control
  • How FGAC works
  • Virtual Private Database
  • How does Virtual Private Database work?
  • Column-level Virtual Private Database
  • Virtual Private Database with Oracle Database 12c Multitenant
  • Virtual Private Database components
  • Application Context
  • Virtual Private Database policy function
  • Policy types
  • The DBMS_RLS package
  • Demonstration
  • Virtual Private Database features and best practices
  • Virtual Private Database metadata
  • Policy utilities-refresh and drop
  • Oracle Database 12c Security enhancements
  • Oracle Database 12c Data Redaction
  • Data Redaction exemptions and miscellaneous features
  • Data Redaction function types
  • Demonstration
  • The Data Redaction metadata
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise
  • Chapter 7: Oracle SecureFiles
  • Introduction to Large Objects
  • Classification of Large Object datatypes
  • Internal LOB
  • External LOB
  • LOB restrictions
  • LOB data types in Oracle
  • BLOB and CLOB
  • BFILE
  • Some more related stuff
  • The LOB locator
  • LOB instance initialization
  • The DBMS_LOB package
  • LOB usage notes
  • Oracle SecureFiles
  • Deduplication and compression
  • Encryption
  • File System Logging.
  • Write Gather Cache
  • Free space management
  • BasicFiles and SecureFiles
  • The db_securefile parameter
  • Working with LOBs
  • LOB metadata
  • Enabling the advanced features of a SecureFile
  • Populating the LOB data
  • Temporary LOB operations
  • Managing temporary LOBs
  • Working with a temporary LOB
  • Migrating LONG to LOBs
  • Use the ALTER TABLE command
  • Using the TO_LOB function
  • Online Table Redefinition
  • Migrating BasicFiles to SecureFiles
  • Oracle Database 12c enhancements to SecureFiles
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise
  • Chapter 8: Tuning PL/SQL Code
  • The PL/SQL Compiler
  • Subprogram inlining in PL/SQL
  • PRAGMA INLINE
  • PLSQL_OPTIMIZE_LEVEL
  • Native and interpreted compilation techniques
  • Oracle Database 11g Real Native Compilation
  • Selecting the appropriate compilation mode
  • Setting the compilation mode
  • Querying the compilation settings
  • Compiling a program unit for native or interpreted compilation
  • Recompiling a database for a PL/SQL native or interpreted compilation
  • Tuning PL/SQL code
  • Build secure applications using bind variables
  • Call parameters by reference
  • Avoiding an implicit data type conversion
  • Understanding the NOT NULL constraint
  • Selection of an appropriate numeric data type
  • Bulk processing in PL/SQL
  • BULK COLLECT
  • FORALL
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise
  • Chapter 9: Result Cache
  • Oracle Database 11g Result Cache
  • What is the Server Result Cache?
  • Configuring the Server Result Cache
  • Result Cache versus Buffer Cache
  • Result Cache versus Oracle 12c Database In-Memory
  • Result Cache versus In-Memory Database Cache
  • SQL query Result Cache
  • Monitoring the SQL Result Cache
  • Invalidation of the SQL Result Cache
  • Read consistency of the SQL Result Cache
  • Limitations
  • PL/SQL Function Result Cache
  • Does it sound similar to deterministic functions?
  • Differences between Result Cache and other caching techniques
  • Illustration
  • Monitoring the PL/SQL Result Cache
  • Invalidation of the PL/SQL Result Cache
  • Limitation
  • OCI Client results cache
  • The DBMS_RESULT_CACHE package
  • Displaying the result cache memory report
  • Oracle Database 12c enhancements to the PL/SQL function Result Cache
  • Result cache in Real Application Clusters
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise
  • Chapter 10: Analyzing, Profiling, and Tracing PL/SQL Code
  • A sample PL/SQL program
  • Tracking PL/SQL coding information
  • USER_ARGUMENTS
  • USER_OBJECTS
  • USER_OBJECT_SIZE
  • USER_SOURCE
  • USER_PROCEDURES
  • USER_PLSQL_OBJECT_SETTINGS and USER_STORED_SETTINGS
  • USER_DEPENDENCIES
  • The DBMS_DESCRIBE package
  • Tracking the program execution subprogram call stack
  • Tracking propagating exceptions in PL/SQL code
  • Determining identifier types and usages
  • USER_IDENTIFIERS
  • The PL/Scope tool
  • The PLSCOPE_SETTINGS parameter
  • The DBMS_METADATA package
  • DBMS_METADATA data types and subprograms
  • Parameter requirements
  • The DBMS_METADATA transformation parameters and filters
  • Demonstration
  • Tracing PL/SQL programs using DBMS_TRACE
  • Installing the DBMS_TRACE package
  • DBMS_TRACE subprograms
  • Compiling a PL/SQL program for debugging
  • Viewing the PL/SQL trace information
  • Steps to trace PL/SQL program execution
  • Profiling PL/SQL code
  • The DBMS_HPROF package
  • Differences between DBMS_PROFILER and DBMS_HPROF
  • DBMS_HPROF subprograms
  • Collecting raw profile data
  • Interpreting the raw profiler data
  • Analyzing profiler data
  • Creating the profiler tables
  • Analyzing the profiler output
  • Querying the profiler tables
  • The plshprof utility
  • What do these reports reveal?
  • Summary
  • Practice exercise
  • Chapter 11: Safeguarding PL/SQL Code against SQL injection
  • What is SQL injection?

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