In this course, we will talk in detail about how transaction management occurs in Oracle. We will talk about transaction management commands like commits, rollbacks, and savepoints, as well as talk about naming transactions and initiating read-only transactions. Dynamic SQL helps us write extremely flexible SQL. We will talk extensively about native dynamic SQL and the DBMS_SQL package, along with the two ways to execute dynamic SQL in PL/SQL. Finally, we will dive deep into debugging methods for PL/SQL with an extensive look at the SQL Developer debugger. All of these are important concepts and skills which enable you to write efficient, accurate, and high-performing PL/SQL code.
Author Name: Pankaj Jain
Author Description:
Pankaj Jain is an experienced technologist, with expertise in various aspects of software development lifecycle, architecting software solutions and software development. He has worked on an array of technologies, with focus on Oracle at the database layer and Java at the web tier. He is a certified Oracle 11g DBA. He lives in Seattle with his wife Simita and boys Ronit and Rohak. When he is not playing with technology, he likes spending time with his kids, travelling and doing photography.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  6mins
• Transaction Management in PL/SQL
  50mins
• Autonomous Transactions
  27mins
• Native Dynamic SQL
  58mins
• Dynamic SQL Using DBMS_SQL
  61mins
• Debugging PL/SQL Code
  37mins