This Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial course teaches you how to use basics of PL/SQL programming language.
PL/SQL is the procedural extension of SQL language.

PL/SQL Tutorial Introduction

PL/SQL (Procedural Language / Structured Query Language) is the procedural extension of SQL language.
PL/SQL is a programming language that provides accessing data from a relational database-oriented objects.
PL/SQL is a language with block structure.

PL/SQL Advantages

Supports the basic SQL commands
Defining and managing blocks of instructions
Management of variables, constants and cursors
Allow implementation and use complex procedures, functions and triggers
Detection and handling execution errors, exceptions

PL/SQL Blocks

PL/SQL is a language focused on blocks. These blocks are composed of procedures, functions and anonymous blocks.
A PL/SQL block is composed of three parts:
Declaration – all block objects like variable must be declared
Execution – is the place where pl/sql or sql statements are defined for the data processing
Exceptions – the place where you can catch the errors

DECLARE
	Declare Variables
BEGIN
	Execution Programs
EXCEPTION
	Errors handling
END;

PL/SQL Tutorial

1. Introduction to PL/SQL

• What is PL/SQL – introduction to PL/SQL programming language and its basic SQL commands.
• PL/SQL Blocks – shows you how to create and use PL/SQL anonymous blocks.
• PL/SQL Variables – shows you the types of variables and how to declare variables.
• Oracle PL/SQL Data Types – in this section are presented the main types of data used like number, varchar2, date, blob.
• PL/SQL Functions – a list with built-in SQL functions in Oracle Database.

2. Conditional and Loop Statements

• PL/SQL If-Then-Else Statement – learn how to use conditional statements.
• PL/SQL For Loop – example with the basic FOR LOOP statement.
• PL/SQL While Loop – syntax and example of the WHILE-LOOP statement.
• PL/SQL Case – shows you how to use the CASE statement.

3. Cursors

• PL/SQL Cursors – uses implicit and explicit cursors.

4. Exception Handling

• PL/SQL Exception Handling – learn how to set the exception to catch errors.

5. Collections and Records

• PL/SQL Collections and Records – learn how use compound data types like array, record or table.

6. Stored Procedures, Functions and Packages

• PL/SQL Stored Procedures – shows you how to create a stored procedure.
• PL/SQL Function – create function to return a value from the database.
• PL/SQL Packages – learn how to create the package specification and the package body.

7. PL/SQL Triggers

• PL/SQL Triggers – syntax and example of trigger for database.

8. PL/SQL Tutorial

• PL/SQL Tutorial – learn more about PL/SQL language.