Oracle

PL/SQL

PL/SQL stands for “Procedural Language extensions to the Structured Query Language”. 
SQL is a popular language for both querying and updating data in the relational database management systems (RDBMS). 
PL/SQL adds many procedural constructs to SQL language to overcome some limitations of SQL. 
Besides, PL/SQL provides a more comprehensive programming language solution for building mission-critical applications on Oracle Databases.

What is PL/SQL

PL/SQL is an embedded language. PL/SQL only can execute in an Oracle Database.
Platform Independence

- Oracle Forms

PL/SQL ENGINE
Procedural Statment Executor

Architecture
- Cooperates with SQL Engine
- Enables Subprograms
- Dynamic Queries
- Case Insensitivity
- Oracle Style
- Optimizer
- Enables Object-Orinted Programming(OO Programmierung mit abstrakten Datentypen)
- Web Development
  - PL/SQL gateway
  - PL/SQL Web Toolkit

SQL ENGINE
SQL Statement Executor
3 Schritte:
Parsing
Fetching
Executing
Bei der Ausführung optimiert der SQL-Optimierer 

Pluggable Database

Pluggable Database = Multitenant Architecture

Methoden wie "Bulk Insert"

About DML Statements and Transactions

PL/SQL - Arrays