Re: How important is PL/SQL?

From: Jeremy Russell <jeremyr_at_no-spam-today-thanks.dircon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:25:42 GMT
Message-ID: <362accd2.1058478@news.dircon.co.uk>

Pretty important - it's used for two major purposes:

writing "stored code" that lives in the database and is executed where the database resides - benefits are the reuse of this code, sharing it between programs and programmers, performance (especially in a networked environment).
customising default behaviour in Forms, Reportwriter and other tools, giving a common machine portable programming tool (Java? what's that?)

Hope that helps
JR

timsteve_at_twerh.as.ca (Steve) wrote:

>
>I am new to learning Oracle. But, how important is PL/SQL?
>Is it needed for other Oracle applications?
>Thanks.
>
Received on Mon Oct 19 1998 - 00:25:42 CDT