Oracle Built−in Packages- P3: Ah, for the good old days of Version of PL /SQL! Life was so simple then. No stored procedures or functions and certainly no packages. You had your set of built−in functions, like SUBSTR and TO_DATE. You had the IF statement and various kinds of loops. With these tools at hand, you built your batch−processing scripts for execution in SQL*Plus, and you coded your triggers in SQL*Forms , and you went home at night content with a good day's work done. | Oracle Built-in Packages SEARCH PREVIOUS Appendix A NEXT 1 A. What s on the Companion Disk Contents Installing the Guide Using the Guide The content of the companion Windows disk that accompanies this book has been included on this CD in the bipack disk directory. It contains the Oracle Built-in Packages Companion Guide an online tool designed by RevealnNet Inc. to help you find additional resources. The guide offers point-and-click access to approximately 175 files of source code and documentation prepared by the authors. The goal of providing this material in electronic form is to give you a leg up on the development of your own PL SQL programs. Providing material on disk also helps us keep the size of this book under some control. Installing the Guide In a Microsoft Windows environment you begin installation by double-clicking on the file to run the installation program. If you are working in a non-Windows environment please visit the RevealNet PL SQL Pipeline Archives http plsql-pipeline to obtain a compressed file containing the examples on this disk. The installation script will lead you through the necessary steps. The first screen you will see is the install screen shown in Figure A-1. Figure Installing the Companion Guide You can change the default directory in which the files will be placed. Once this step is complete and the software has been copied to your drive an icon will appear in the folder you specified. Double-click on the icon to start using the Companion Guide. You will then see the main menu shown in Figure A-2. Figure The main menu PREVIOUS HOME NEXT IV. Distributed Database book index Using the Guide Packages . Orode PL SOL Orode PL SQL Orode Advanced PL SQL Orode Wei Applications Orode PL SQL Oracle PL SQL I Programming Programming I Budt-in I Programming I PL SQL Developer s I Language I Bait-ins MM Second Edition Guide to Orndo8i Features Packages witk Packages Introduction Pocket Reference .
