Oracle Pl/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle 8I Features - Brossura

Feuerstein, Steven

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1565926757 ISBN 13: 9781565926752

Casa editrice: Oreilly & Associates Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Oracle8i, the long-awaited "Internet database" from Oracle Corporation, has hit the streets running--and you may find yourself struggling to keep up with Oracle's fast-moving technology. Oracle boasts that Oracle8i offers more than 150 new features, many of them designed to make its popular database programming language, PL/SQL, faster, more powerful, and easier to use.This concise and engaging book is both a companion to Oracle PL/SQL Programming (widely recognized as the "bible" for PL/SQL developers) and a guide designed to bring you up to speed as quickly as possible on the new PL/SQL features of Oracle8i. Following the style of Feuerstein's earlier books, the Guide to Oracle8i Features combines easy-to-understand descriptions of the new Oracle8i features with a wealth of interesting and informative examples.The major Oracle8i PL/SQL features include the following:

• Autonomous transactions--the ability to commit or roll back changes without affecting the "main" transaction in the rest of your session
• Invoker rights--At compilation time, you can now decide whether a program (or all programs in a package) should run under the authority of the definer or the invoker of that program
• Native dynamic SQL--A native implementation of dynamic SQL that's faster and easier than the DBMS_SQL built-in package
• Bulk binds and collects--A major performance improvement that lets you process multiple rows in a single operation
• System-level database triggers--With this feature and Advanced Queueing (AQ), you can take advantage of the publish/subscribe capabilities of Oracle8i
• Fine-grained access control--This feature lets you implement security policies with functions and then use those functions to implement row-level security on tables or views.
• Many new and enhanced built-in packages--New packages include DBMS_JAVA, DBMS_PROFILER, DBMS_TRACE, and more. DBMS_UTILITY, DBMS_AQ, and others have been enhanced as well.
• Calling Java methods from within PL/SQL--The book includes enough Java know-how to help you build simple Java classes, load them into the Oracle8i database, and leverage those classes from within your PL/SQL code.

Some PL/SQL developers are uneasy about what the introduction of Java means to their applications--and their programming future. But the two languages are expected to work well together in Oracle8i. You'll be able to take advantage of all the power of Java without giving up the performance and usability advantages of PL/SQL!Included with this book is a diskette containing an online tool developed by RevealNet, Inc., that provides point-and-click access to approximately 100 files of reusable source code and examples.The Guide to Oracle8i Features showcases all the powerful new features of Oracle8i designed especially for PL/SQL developers. You'll find it indispensable as you strive to take the fullest possible advantage of everything this exciting new version has to offer.Table of Contents:

1. Oracle8i: A Bounty for PL/SQL Developers
2. Choose Your Transaction!
3. Invoker Rights: Your Schema or Mine?
4. Native Dynamic SQL in Oracle8i
5. Bulking Up with PL/SQL 8.1
6. New Trigger Features in Oracle8i
7. New and Enhanced Built-in Packages in Oracle8i
8. Deploying Fine-Grained Access Control
9. Calling Java from PL/SQL
10. More Goodies for Oracle PL/SQL Developers

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Steven Feuerstein is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language. He is the author or coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Features, Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Workbook, Oracle Built-in Packages, Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages, and several pocket reference books (all from O'Reilly & Associates). Steven is a Senior Technology Advisor with Quest Software, has been developing software since 1980, and worked for Oracle Corporation from 1987 to 1992.

Contenuti:

Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Structure of This Book; About the Examples; About the Disk; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Oracle8i: A Bounty for PL/SQL Developers; 1.1 What's in Oracle8i Release 8.1?; 1.2 And Then There's Java; 1.3 New PL/SQL Features Roundup; Chapter 2: Choose Your Transaction!; 2.1 Transaction Management in PL/SQL; 2.2 Defining Autonomous Transactions; 2.3 When to Use Autonomous Transactions; 2.4 Rules and Restrictions; 2.5 Examples; Chapter 3: Invoker Rights: Your Schema or Mine?; 3.1 A Look at the Definer Rights Model; 3.2 The Invoker Rights Model; 3.3 One Program, Multiple Schemas; 3.4 Combining the Definer and Invoker Rights Models; Chapter 4: Native Dynamic SQL in Oracle8i; 4.1 DBMS_SQL Versus NDS; 4.2 NDS Statement Summary; 4.3 Multirow Queries with Cursor Variables; 4.4 Binding Variables; 4.5 Working with Objects and Collections; 4.6 Building Applications with NDS; 4.7 NDS Utility Package; Chapter 5: Bulking Up with PL/SQL 8.1; 5.1 Context-Switching Problem Scenarios; 5.2 Bulk DML with the FORALL Statement; 5.3 Bulk Querying with the BULK COLLECT Clause; 5.4 Using Cursor Attributes; 5.5 Analyzing the Impact of Bulk Operations; Chapter 6: New Trigger Features in Oracle8i; 6.1 Triggers on Nested Table View Columns; 6.2 Database-Level Event Triggers; 6.3 Schema-Level Event Triggers; Chapter 7: New and Enhanced Built-in Packages in Oracle8i; 7.1 DBMS_PROFILER: Providing Code Profiling; 7.2 DBMS_TRACE: Providing a PL/SQL Trace Facility; 7.3 DBMS_RLS: Implementing Fine-Grained Access Control; 7.4 UTL_COLL: Using Collection Locators; 7.5 LOB Enhancements; 7.6 New DBMS_AQ and DBMS_AQADM Features; 7.7 New DBMS_UTILITY Features; Chapter 8: Deploying Fine-Grained Access Control; 8.1 FGAC Components; 8.2 CREATE CONTEXT: Creating Contexts; 8.3 SET_CONTEXT: Setting Context and Attribute Values; 8.4 SYS_CONTEXT and LIST_CONTEXT: Obtaining Context Information; 8.5 A Complete FGAC Example; Chapter 9: Calling Java from PL/SQL; 9.1 Oracle8i and Java; 9.2 Getting Ready to Use Java in Oracle; 9.3 A Simple Demonstration; 9.4 Using loadjava; 9.5 Using dropjava; 9.6 Managing Java in the Database; 9.7 Using DBMS_JAVA and DBMS_JAVA_TEST; 9.8 Publishing and Using Java in PL/SQL; 9.9 Examples; Chapter 10: More Goodies for Oracle8i PL/SQL Developers; 10.1 The NOCOPY Parameter Mode Hint; 10.2 Calling Packaged Functions in SQL; 10.3 SQL99 Compliance; 10.4 SQL Operations on Collections; 10.5 Miscellaneous and Minor Improvements; Appendix A: Appendix: What's on the Companion Disk?; A.1 Installing the Reference; A.2 Using the Reference; Colophon;

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oreilly & Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1565926757
• ISBN 13: 9781565926752
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 248