PL/SQL (Procedural Language for SQL) is Oracle's proprietary extension to standard SQL. It combines the data manipulation power of SQL with the procedural capabilities of a programming language. PL/SQL allows developers to write complex database-centric applications by incorporating variables, conditions, loops, error handling, and modular programming constructs like procedures and functions. This language is tightly integrated with Oracle databases, enabling efficient data processing and transaction management.
This tutorial will teach you how to integrate DUO Two Factor Authentication using PL/SQL in the Oracle database. What is Two Factor Authentication? Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a method by which users can verify their identity by using two different…
In this Oracle tutorial, you will learn how to run a stored procedure in the background using DBMS_SCHEDULER. Running a procedure in the background means that the stored procedure will run asynchronously. You can run multiple procedures in the background,…
This Oracle tutorial shows how to create Pipelined function. Follow these steps: 1. Create a Type Object For Oracle pipelined function, we must have a type object through which we can send the rows. Create one as below: CREATE OR…
In Oracle, the BFILE column is a locator or reference for the external file. It has the directory and filename information. Here I am giving an example of PL/SQL code to get BLOB from the BFILE locator column in Oracle.…
In Oracle 12c onwards, on which the Oracle Apex is by default installed, you can use APEX_ZIP PL/SQL package to zip the files. So here I am giving a few Oracle APEX_ZIP examples: Oracle APEX_ZIP Example The following PL/SQL code…
Here I am giving an example to send JSON and a Zip file to the REST web service using Oracle UTL_HTTP post multipart Initially, I took the example code from Nick Buytaert's blog and then modified it to incorporate the…
Learn how to use the UTL_FILE package to export data from a table to the CSV file in Oracle PL In Oracle, the package UTL_FILE contains many procedures and functions for writing a text file. Below are the syntax details…
In Oracle PL/SQL, to check if BLOB or CLOB is empty or not, use the dbms_lob.getlength() function or dbms_lob.compare() function. Here are the examples: 1. Using dbms_lob.getlength() Function declare vblob blob; Cursor c_blob is select content into vblob from employee_docs…
Recently I got the task to build a kind of mail client system in Oracle Apex. The requirement was to show the messages of mail Inbox on a page for a particular account so that the user can view the…
In Oracle, you can convert number to string using the TO_CHAR() function, however, you can simply assign a numeric value to a string variable without using any function in Oracle. Below are the examples. 1. Convert Number to String using…
Send a mail with Attachment using Oracle UTL_SMTP and Oracle Wallet Authentication example. The following is the example of Oracle Wallet configuration information: Wallet Path: 'file:/usr1/oracle/wallets/mywallet' Wallet Password: YourPasword Send Mail with Attachment using Oracle UTL_SMTP and Oracle Wallet PL/SQL…
In this tutorial, I am giving an example to merge/combine multiple PDF files into one PDF file in Oracle using PLPDF_TOOLKIT PL/SQL package. Assume you have a table for employees having a BLOB field and for each employee this table…
In this tutorial, I am giving an Oracle PL/SQL program example to demonstrate Dynamic SQL using EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statement. Oracle PL/SQL EXECUTE IMMEDIATE Dynamic SQL Example The following PL/SQL procedure will update the record in the Employees table for an…
In this tutorial, I am giving an Oracle dynamic SQL example to insert a record using the DBMS_SQL package. Through dynamic SQL, you can parse any DML and DDL statement using PL/SQL to execute to perform a particular task in…
Below I am giving an example of Oracle stored function to convert currency amount in words using PL For example, the amount of $123.45 would translate as One Hundred Twenty-Three Dollar and Forty-Five Cents. Also, you can change the currency…
In Oracle, an autonomous transaction can commit or rollback the data in the same session without committing or rolling back in the main transaction. PRAGMA (compiler directive) statement is used to define autonomous transaction in Oracle. The following is an…
Here I am giving an example to encrypt the password in Oracle using the DBMS_CRYPTO package. To demonstrate this, I have created the following table to store user ID (USER_ID) varchar2 data type and to store the encrypted password (ENC_PSW)…
In my previous posts, I have given examples for Bulk Collect operations in Oracle. Here is an example of Bulk Collect with Save Exceptions to handle errors during bulk collect processing. PL/SQL Bulk Collect With Save Exceptions Example In the…