Oracle PL/SQL by Example Fourth Edition

Oracle 11g has introduced a number of new features and improvements for PL/SQL. This introduction briefly describes features not covered in this book and points you to specific chapters for features that are within scope of this book. The list of features described here is also available in the “What’s New in PL/SQL?” section of the PL/SQL Language Reference manual offered as part of Oracle help available online. The new PL/SQL features and enhancements are as follows:

. Enhancements to regular expression built-in SQL functions
. SIMPLE_INTEGER, SIMPLE_FLOAT, and SIMPLE_DOUBLE datatypes
. CONTINUE statement
. Sequences in PL/SQL expressions
. Dynamic SQL enhancements
. Named and mixed notation in PL/SQL subprogram invocations
. Cross-session PL/SQL function result cache
. More control over triggers
. Compound triggers
. Database resident connection pool
. Automatic subprogram inlining
. PL/Scope
. PL/SQL hierarchical profiler
. PL/SQL native compiler generates native code directly