PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is Oracle's proprietary extension of SQL. It allows you to combine SQL statements with procedural constructs like loops, conditional statements, ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an algorithm to convert SQL and procedural languages into each other. The algorithm converts features of SQL, a declarative programming language, that are not ...

In some dialects, user-defined functions can contain SQL only content, in case of which inlining such a function into a calling query is much simpler for the ...