Oracle PL/SQL ebook
Learn PL/SQL from database basics to professional practice.
One guide for students, graduates and working developers. Clear explanations, code with expected output, exercises with solutions, real business projects and interview questions.
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Career
Mastery Complete beginner-to-professional guide Pranaba Binod Sahu
- Format
- Digital ebook
- Level
- Beginner to professional
- Database
- Oracle PL/SQL
- Includes
- Projects and interview prep
Written for people building a database career.
Whether you are learning, switching roles or getting ready for an interview, the guide meets you where you are.
Computer science students
See how real database programs are written, beyond classroom SQL.
Fresh graduates
Build job-ready PL/SQL skills before your first technical interview.
SQL developers moving to PL/SQL
Take the step from queries to procedures, packages and triggers.
Production support professionals
Read, debug and fix PL/SQL code with confidence.
Oracle PL/SQL interview candidates
Practise with questions on the topics interviewers ask about.
What's inside
The topics follow a learning path, from first principles to the habits professionals rely on.
Foundations
- Database basics
- RDBMS and Oracle architecture
- PL/SQL block structure and data types
Core PL/SQL
- Control flow and loops
- Cursors and collections
- Exception handling
Database programming
- Stored procedures and functions
- Packages and triggers
- Dynamic SQL
- Bulk operations
- Transactions
Professional practice
- Performance tuning
- Security and SQL injection prevention
- Debugging
- Practical projects
- Interview preparation
Every topic is built to be practised, not just read.
Explanations are only the start. Each idea comes with something to run, something to solve and something to check against.
Clear explanations
Technical concepts in plain language, starting from the basics.
Code with expected output
Compare your results with what each example should produce.
Exercises and coding challenges
Solutions are included, so you can check your work.
Business scenarios
Problems modelled on the work database teams do every day.
Interview questions
Practise the questions Oracle PL/SQL interviews are built around.
Finish by building five practical projects.
Put the concepts together on the kind of tasks you will meet in a real PL/SQL role.
- Employee management
- Banking transactions
- Audit logging
- Data validation
- Batch processing
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE transfer_funds (
p_from IN accounts.id%TYPE,
p_to IN accounts.id%TYPE,
p_amt IN NUMBER
) AS
BEGIN
UPDATE accounts
SET balance = balance - p_amt
WHERE id = p_from;
UPDATE accounts
SET balance = balance + p_amt
WHERE id = p_to;
COMMIT;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
ROLLBACK;
RAISE;
END transfer_funds;Illustrative example of the style of code you will write.
Questions before you start
Short answers about who the ebook is for and how to get it.
Do I need to know PL/SQL already?
No. The guide starts with database fundamentals and builds up to professional-level PL/SQL, so you can begin as a complete beginner.
Which database does it cover?
Oracle. You learn RDBMS and Oracle architecture first, then write PL/SQL for Oracle databases.
Do the exercises come with answers?
Yes. Exercises and coding challenges include solutions, so you can check your work after every attempt.
Will it help me prepare for interviews?
Yes. It includes interview questions and a section on interview preparation, alongside the practical projects.
Is this a course or a book?
It is a digital ebook. You read it and work through the examples at your own pace.
How do I get the ebook?
Select the button on this page. It opens the SuperProfile checkout page in a new tab, where you complete your order and receive the ebook.
Start building your PL/SQL skills today.
Open the guide, work through the examples and check your answers against the solutions.