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A scalar function returns only one value (or NULL), whereas a table function returns a (relational) table comprising zero or more rows, each row with one or more columns. Functions must return a value (using the RETURN keyword), but for stored procedures this is not mandatory. Stored procedures can use RETURN keyword but with no value being passed.
The first version of SQL Plus was called UFI ("User Friendly Interface"). UFI appeared in Oracle database releases up to Version 4. After Oracle programmers had added new features to UFI, its name became Advanced UFI. The name "Advanced UFI" changed to "SQL Plus" with the release of the version 5 of Oracle. [2]
PL/SQL refers to a class as an "Abstract Data Type" (ADT) or "User Defined Type" (UDT), and defines it as an Oracle SQL data-type as opposed to a PL/SQL user-defined type, allowing its use in both the Oracle SQL Engine and the Oracle PL/SQL engine. The constructor and methods of an Abstract Data Type are written in PL/SQL.
Oracle SQL Developer versions [11] Version Release Date Description Releases prior to 1.0 Prior to version 1.0, Oracle Corporation labeled the product "Raptor" 1.0 March 2006 The first release 1.1 December 2006 1.2.1 August 2007 1.5 April 2008 1.5.1 June 2008 1.5.3 December 2008 1.5.4 March 2009 1.5.5 July 2009 2.1 RC1 December 2009 2.1 Patch 1
PL/SQL Developer, an Integrated Development Environment for developing software in the Oracle database environment, [2] focuses on the development of PL/SQL stored-program units. Allround Automations, based in Enschede in the Netherlands , markets the software.
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The arrival of Microsoft Windows 3 and competitive products running under Windows forced Oracle to release this GUI version of Forms for commercial reasons. Forms 4.0 accompanied Oracle database version 6 with support for Microsoft Windows and X Windows. A new IDE was introduced in this version. Each type of object had an editor window that was ...
In computing, the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) consists of a set of C-language software APIs which provide an interface to the Oracle database. OCI offers a procedural API for not only performing certain database administration tasks (such as system startup and shutdown), but also for using PL/SQL or SQL to query, access, and manipulate data.