Exam 1Z0-144: Oracle Database – Program with PL/SQL

Oracle Database 11g: PL/SQL Fundamentals

• Introduction to PL/SQL
• Explain the need for PL/SQL
• Explain the benefits of PL/SQL
• Identify the different types of PL/SQL blocks
• Output messages in PL/SQL
• Declaring PL/SQL Variables
• Recognize valid and invalid identifiers
• List the uses of variables, declare and initialize variables, use bind variables
• List and describe various data types using the %TYPE attribute
• Writing Executable Statements
• Identify lexical units in a PL/SQL block
• Use built-in SQL functions in PL/SQL and sequences in PL/SQL expressions
• Describe when implicit conversions take place and when explicit conversions have to be dealt with
• Write nested blocks and qualify variables with labels
• Write readable code with appropriate indentation
• Interacting with the Oracle Database Server
• Create PL/SQL executable blocks using DML and transaction control statements
• Make use of the INTO clause to hold the values returned by a SQL statement
• Writing Control Structures
• Identify the uses and types of control structures (IF, CASE statements and expressions)
• Construct and identify loop statements
• Apply guidelines when using conditional control structures
• Working with Composite Data Types
• Create user-defined PL/SQL records
• Create a record with the %ROWTYPE attribute
• Create an INDEX BY table and INDEX BY table of records
• Describe the differences among records, tables, and tables of records
• Using Explicit Cursors
• Distinguish between usage of implicit and explicit cursors, use SQL cursor attributes
• Declare and control explicit cursors, use simple loops and cursor FOR loops to fetch data
• Declare and use cursors with parameters
• Lock rows with the FOR UPDATE clause and reference the current row with the WHERE CURRENT OF clause
• Handling Exceptions
• Define PL/SQL exceptions
• Recognize unhandled exceptions
• Handle different types of exceptions (pre-defined exceptions, non-predefined exceptions and user-defined exceptions)
• Propagate exceptions in nested blocks and call applications
• Creating Stored Procedures and Functions
• Differentiate between anonymous blocks and subprograms
• Create a simple procedure and invoke it from an anonymous block
• Create a simple function
• Create a simple function that accepts a parameter
• Differentiate between procedures and functions

Oracle Database 11g: Develop PL/SQL Program Units

• Creating Procedures
• Differentiate between anonymous blocks and subprograms, use a modularized and layered subprogram design, and identify the benefits of subprograms
• Create a simple procedure and invoke it from an anonymous block
• Work with procedures
• Handle exceptions in procedures, remove a procedure, and display a procedure’s information
• Creating Functions
• Differentiate between a procedure and a function
• Describe the uses of functions
• Work with functions (create, invoke and remove functions)
• Creating Packages
• Identify the benefits and the components of packages
• Work with packages (create package specification and body, invoke package subprograms, remove a package and display package information)
• Working with Packages
• Overload package subp rograms, use forward declarations
• Create an initialization block in a package body
• Manage persistent package data states for the life of a session and use PL/SQL tables and records in packages
• Using Oracle-Supplied Packages in Application Development
• Describe how the DBMS_OUTPUT package works
• Use UTL_FILE to direct output to operating system files
• Describe the main features of UTL_MAIL
• Using Dynamic SQL
• Describe the execution flow of SQL statements
• Use Native Dynamic SQL (NDS)
• Use the DBMS_SQL package
• Design Considerations for PL/SQL Code
• Create standard constants and exceptions
• Write and call local subprograms
• Control the run-time privileges of a subprogram
• Perform autonomous transactions
• Use NOCOPY hint, PARALLEL ENABLE hint and DETERMINISTIC clause
• Use bulk binding and the RETURNING clause with DML
• Creating Triggers
• Describe different types of triggers and their uses
• Create database triggers
• Manage triggers
• Creating Compound, DDL, and Event Database Triggers
• Create triggers on DDL statements
• Create triggers on system events
• Using the PL/SQL Compiler
• Describe the new PL/SQL compiler and features
• Use the new PL/SQL compiler initialization parameters
• Use the new PL/SQL compile time warnings
• Managing PL/SQL Code
• Describe and use conditional compilation
• Hide PL/SQL source code using dynamic obfuscation and the Wrap utility
• Managing Dependencies
• Track and manage procedural dependencies