Part III. PL/SQL Program Data
Just about every program you write will manipulate data—and much of that data is “local” to (i.e., defined in) your PL/SQL procedure or function. This part of the book concentrates on the various types of program data you can define in PL/SQL, such as numbers (including the datatypes introduced in Oracle Database 11g), strings, dates, timestamps, records, collections, XML datatypes, and user-defined datatypes. Chapters 7 through 13 also cover the various built-in functions provided by Oracle that allow you to manipulate and modify data.
| Chapter 7, Working with Program Data |
| Chapter 8, Strings |
| Chapter 9, Numbers |
| Chapter 10, Dates and Timestamps |
| Chapter 11, Records |
| Chapter 12, Collections |
| Chapter 13, Miscellaneous Datatypes |
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