CS178 Database Management PL/SQL session 8 References: ORACLE 9i PROGRAMMING A Primer Rajshekhar Sunderraman

What is PL/SQL ? Oracle’s procedural extension to SQL superset of the SQL language, including high- level programming features such as: –structures, types –variables –constants –assignment statements –conditional statements –loops –customized error handling –structured data

Data types and variables all the sql data types –variables declaration: [not null] [:= ] ex. sid number(5) not null := 1111; sname varchar2(30); grade real(5,2) := 2.5; – constants declaration: constant := ex. maxcolumns constant integer(2) := 30; – anchor variables: %type [not null] [:= ] ex. cnum customers.sid%type; ctable customers%rowtype; -- creates a variable of type table that has the same fields as the customers table;

Comments Single line comments : “--” Block comments : C like “/* this is a comment */”

Assignments := ex. i:=i+1; sname := ‘Jones’; sales := price*qty;

Example In SQLPLUS run the following command: – set SERVEROUTPUT on DECLARE i INTEGER; sid NUMBER(5) NOT NULL := 1111; sname VARCHAR2(30); grade REAL(5) := 12.5; MAXCOLUMNS CONSTANT INTEGER(2) := 30; BEGIN i := 35; sname := 'Jones'; sid := 2000; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('i = ' || i); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('sid = ' || sid); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('sname = ' || sname); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('grade = ' || grade); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('MAXCOLUMNS = ' || MAXCOLUMNS); END; /

Conditional statements if-then –if then end if; ex. if (grade > 70) and (grade <90) then i:=i+1; end if; if-then-else –if then else end if; if-then-elseif –if then elseif then … elseif then else endif;

Loops Basic loop – loop end loop; ex. loop i:=i+1; if (i>10) then exit; end if; sum := sum + i; end loop; Alternatively we can have exited with “exit when i >10”

Loops For loop for in [reverse].. loop ; end loop; ex. for i in loop sum := sum + i; end loop; While loop while loop ; end loop; ex. while (i<10) loop sum := sum +i; i := i+1; end loop;

Program structure Anonymous programs declare --type and variable declarations begin --executable section null; exception -- exception handlers when others then null; --default handler for all untreated exceptions end; Procedures and functions procedure (,.., ) is [declarations] begin --executable section; exception --exception handlers; end; where “ has the following syntax: [in | out | in out]

Functions and procedures Procedure : will not return a result Function : will return a value after execution ex. function myfunc( param1 IN number) return number is grade number; begin grade:=param1 ; return (grade); end; procedure myproc( param1 IN number, param2 out number) is begin param2:=param1; end;

How to call the function ? declare function myfunc( param1 IN number) return number is grade number; begin grade:=param1 ; return (grade); end; begin DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('The function returned: ' || myfunc(10)); end; / Exercise : WRITE THE CODE FOR CALLING THE PROCEDURE

Use the select statement in PL/SQL (only if the select returns one single row as result ) declare name varchar2(100); id number; begin select sid, fname into id,name from students where sid = 1111; end; /

Cursors When the result of a select statement consists of more than one row the “select into” statement can not be used. A PL/SQL cursor allows a program to fetch and process information one row at a time Declaration: cursor is ;

Cursor example DECLARE CURSOR c1 IS select sid,fname from students; c1_rec c1%rowtype; BEGIN if not c1%isopen then open c1; end if; fetch c1 into c1_rec; while c1%found loop dbms_output.put_line('Row Number ' || c1%rowcount || '> ' || c1_rec.sid || ' ' || c1_rec.fname); fetch c1 into c1_rec; end loop; close c1; END; /

How to work with cursors declare the cursor declare a variable rec_name of type cursor%rowtype “open c_name” fetch row by row “fetch c_name into rec_name” “close cursor” –c_name%found – returns true if there are still records, false otherwise –c_name%isopen - returns true if the cursor is open, false otherwise

Cursor “for” example DECLARE CURSOR c1 IS select sid,fname from students; BEGIN for c1_rec in c1 loop dbms_output.put_line('Row Number ' || c1%rowcount || '> ' || c1_rec.sid || ' ' || c1_rec.fname); end loop; END; / When using “for loops” the cursor does not have to be explicitly opened and fetched from.

Stored Procedures Syntax create [or replace] procedure [( )] as begin --executable section [exception ] end

why needed ? most of the time the stored procedures contain the entire application logic Ex: create a report with all the courses on all the years, average grade of the curse, students enrolled in the course, their grades on all the components of the courses and their final grade.

Exceptions when an error occurs during the execution of a PL/SQL program a exception is raised program control is transferred to the exception section

Common exception NO_DATA_FOUND -- select into failed because the it resulted in no row TOO_MANY_ROWS -- select into failed because the it resulted more than one row INVALID_NUMBER -- to_number(string) has invalid input parameter ZERO_DEVIDE -- a division by 0 occured

Views A view is a named query, virtual table Views are created, dropped or granted access to, identical to a table.

How do views differ from tables? From :

Syntax create view as ; drop view ; ex. create view vCourses as select catalog.ctitle, courses.term, courses.lineno from catalog, courses where catalog.cno=courses.cno; select * from vCourses;

Sql Injection SELECT fieldlist FROM table WHERE field = '$ '; SELECT fieldlist FROM table WHERE field = 'anything' OR 'x'='x'; SELECT , passwd, login_id, full_name FROM members WHERE = 'x'; UPDATE members SET = WHERE = SELECT , passwd, login_id, full_name FROM members WHERE = 'x'; DROP TABLE members; - -';