Obsessed with Oracle PL/SQL

PL/SQL offers a number of options when it comes to writing conditional logic, as in variations on "If this then that". This post reviews them, and provides examples. You can choose from the following: IF statement - IF, IF-THEN, IF-ELSE, IF-ELSIF-ELSE CASE statement - simple and searched CASE CASE expression - the expression "version" of the statement (and one of my favorite elements of PL/SQL) IF Statement It's hard to imagine a programming language without a version of IF, and PL/SQL is no exception.  The IF statement either runs or skips a sequence of one or more statements, depending on a condition. The IF statement can take one of three forms, but they all have this in common: they start with "IF" and then end with "END IF;". IF THEN The simplest IF statement: if the boolean expression evaluates to TRUE then execute the statements between THEN and END IF. Example: BEGIN IF l_hire_date < SYSDATE THEN ...

By "Oracle Database development", I mean, more or less, writing SQL and PL/SQL. I assume in this post that you have access to Oracle Database (which you can get via Cloud services, Docker , GitHub and OTN ). A. Use a powerful IDE, designed with database programming in mind. There are lots of editors out there, and many IDEs that work with Oracle Database. Sure, you could use Notepad, but OMG the productivity loss. You could also use a popular editor like Sublime, and then it get it working with Oracle. I suggest, however, that you  download  and install Oracle's own own, free, powerful IDE: SQL Developer . If you like to complement your graphical IDE with a command line tool (or OMG if you actually prefer  a command line tool to a graphical interface), you should also check out the relatively new and generating-lots-of-excitement SQLcl . B. Enable compile-time warnings and PL/Scope. The database has tons of useful functionality burned right into it, ready for...

Copyright @2017 CodeNewsWire "News coders can use", dateline 1 April 2017 Wikileaks dumped its latest batch of revelations on the world on April 1, 2017, this time focusing on the world of software programming. From dishing out the dirt on the origins of the Internet (think: Area 51) to emails candidly deriding JSON as nothing more than the latest attempt (XML being the last one) to avoid carefully designing your database, this trove of previously secret secrets is sure to keep Silicon Valley gossiping for months. But buried deep within the 2.5 trillion byte download is evidence of a conspiracy so vast, so unbelievable, so extraordinary, that it is hard, well, to believe. But if it came from Wikileaks it must be true. And that conspiracy was built around - and is maintained around - this incredible bit: All modern programming languages, from Java to JavaScript, Scala to Go, are actually all implemented in the Oracle PL/SQL language. Oh, and Linux, too. You are probab...