Re: PL/SQL syntax

Carlos Porras wrote:

> > Hi. Is there a COMPLETE book about PL/SQL formal syntax? Thanx.

I'm not aware of any book whose main topic is PL/SQL's formal syntax. For that, you'd probably have to have a friend on the inside at Oracle. If you can tolerate an old version, the site
http://cui.unige.ch/db-research/Enseignement/analyseinfo/PLSQL21/BNFindex.html has BNF for PL/SQL 2.1

There are a lot of third-party books on the market which provide syntax in their presentation of examples, but the supplement it quite a bit, and it's not strictly presented like BNF. I think one that stays near to the language syntax without a lot of pages is O'Reilly's "Oracle PL/SQL Pocket Reference" (full disclosure: I am a co-author).

Just curious, why do you want the complete, formal syntax? Are you writing a PL/SQL compiler <g>?

Thanks,
Bill Pribyl

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