What is PL/SQL?

PL/SQL stands for Procedural Language extension of SQL.

 

PL/SQL is a combination of SQL along with the procedural features of programming languages.

It was developed by Oracle Corporation in the early 90’s to enhance the capabilities of SQL.

The PL/SQL Engine:

Oracle uses a PL/SQL engine to processes the PL/SQL statements. A PL/SQL code can be stored in the client system (client-side) or in the database (server-side).

About This PL SQL Programming Tutorial

This Oracle PL SQL tutorial teaches you the basics of database programming in PL/SQL with appropriate PL/SQL tutorials with examples. You can use these free online tutorials as your guide to practice, learn, for training, or reference while programming with PL SQL. I will be making more Oracle PL SQL programming tutorials as often as possible to share my knowledge in PL SQL and help you in learning PL SQL language and syntax better.
Even though the programming concepts discussed in this tutorial are specific to Oracle PL SQL. The concepts like cursors, functions and stored procedures can be used in other database systems like Sybase , Microsoft SQL server etc, with some change in SQL syntax. This PL/SQL tutorial will be growing regularly; let us know if any topic related to PL SQL needs to be added or you can also share your knowledge on PL SQL with us. Lets share our knowledge about PL SQL with others.