Certificate Authentication

Create stored subroutines

• Compilation, object status, source codes
• Code encryption (wrap)
• Object dependency model
• Parameterization

Permissions and schemas in PL/SQL

• Owner and caller model
• Direct and role permissions
• Whitelist
• Assigning roles to procedures and inheriting permissions

Advanced Cursors

• Comparison of explicit cursors and cursor loops
• Pointers for weak and strong cursors
• Support for dynamic cursors
• FOR UPDATE cursors

Collections

• Associative tables (index by), nested tables and varrays
• Attributes, handling, initialization, memory allocation
• Bulk queries (BULK COLLECT) and bulk DML (FORALL)
• Bulk operations in dynamic SQL
• Exception handling in bulk operations
• Array and stream functions

Packages

• Package structure: specification and body
• Benefits of using packages
• Initialization section and global variables, memory management, package instance

Triggers

• DML triggers
• View triggers (INSTEAD OF)
• System Triggers
• Composite triggers

Application context and VPD

• Using built-in context
• Create your own private and global contexts
• Saving and reading context values
• Policies and Virtual Private Database

Appendix A - Examples of using embedded packages

• File handling (utl_file)
• Job scheduling (dbms_job and dbms_scheduler

Suggested pre-training
ORA_S1, ORA_P1
Suggested complementary training
ORA_SP3