PL/SQL Basic Concepts you should Know

Pl/SQL which is known as Procedural Language of SQL is an extension of Oracle relational database schema. This article will discuss the basics of Pl/SQL.

Oracle Corporation created the PL/SQL programming language in the late 1980s as a procedural extension language for SQL and the Oracle relational database. It has a wide range of capabilities compared to normal SQL. PL/SQL language consider as a high-performance transaction-processing language. since the performance and accuracy of the transactions are more important in databases. therefore PL/SQL has a special place when it comes to performance.

Why PL/SQL?

• Better performance
• PL/SQL provides a built-in, interpreted, and OS- Independent programming environment.
• The SQL*Plus command-line interface can also invoke PL/SQL directly.
• External programming languages can also make direct calls to the database.
• The general syntax of PL/SQL is similar to that of the ADA and Pascal computer languages.
• PL/SQL is also accessible in the TimesTen in-memory database and IBM DB2.
• Access to predefined packages makes your life easy.