For the past ten years, O"Reilly"s "Oracle PL/SQL Programming" has been the bestselling book on PL/SQL, Oracle"s powerful procedural language. Packed with examples and helpful recommendations, the book has helped everyone - from novices to experienced developers, and from Oracle Forms developers to database administrators - make the most of PL/SQL. The fourth edition is a comprehensive update, adding significant new content and extending coverage to include the very latest Oracle version, Oracle Database 10"g" Release 2. It describes such new features as the PL/SQL optimizing compiler, conditional compilation, compile-time warnings, regular expressions, set operators for nested tables, nonsequential collections in Forall, the programmer-defined quoting mechanism, the ability to backtrace an exception to a line number, a variety of new built-in packages, and support for IEEE 754 compliant floating-point numbers. The new edition adds brand-new chapters on security (including...