Group A

Assignment No: 5
Class: T.E. Computer Roll No:

Aim: Write a PL/SQL block to calculate the area of a circle for a value of radius
varying from 5 to 9.

Problem Statement:
Write a PL/SQL code block to calculate the area of a circle for a value of radius varying from 5 to 9.
Store the radius and the corresponding values of calculated area in an empty table named areas,
consisting of two columns, radius and area.
Objective:

1. To learn and understand PL/SQL in Oracle

Hardware requirements:
Any CPU with Pentium Processor or similar, 256 MB
RAM or more, 1 GB Hard Disk or more.
Software requirements:
Windows 7 Operating System, Oracle 11g, SQL developer
Theory:
PL/SQL stands for Procedural Language extension of SQL. PL/SQL is a combination of SQL along with
the procedural features of programming languages.It was developed by Oracle Corporation in the early
90’s to enhance the capabilities of SQL.

Architecture of PL/SQL:

The PL/SQL architecture mainly consists of following 3 components:

1. PL/SQL block
2. PL/SQL Engine
3. Database Server
PL/SQL block:

 This is the component which has the actual PL/SQL code.

 This consists of different sections to divide the code logically (declarative section for
declaring purpose, execution section for processing statements, exception handling section for
handling errors)
 It also contains the SQL instruction that used to interact with the database server.
 All the PL/SQL units are treated as PL/SQL blocks, and this is the starting stage of
the architecture which serves as the primary input.
 Following are the different type of PL/SQL units.
o Anonymous Block
o Function
o Library
o Procedure
o Package Body
 o Package Specification
o Trigger
o Type
o Type Body

PL/SQL Engine

 PL/SQL engine is the component where the actual processing of the codes takes place.
 PL/SQL engine separates PL/SQL units and SQL part in the input (as shown in the image below).
 The separated PL/SQL units will be handled with the PL/SQL engine itself.
 The SQL part will be sent to database server where the actual interaction with database
takes place.
 It can be installed in both database server and in the application server.

Database Server:

 This is the most important component of Pl/SQL unit which stores the data.
 The PL/SQL engine uses the SQL from PL/SQL units to interact with the database server.
 It consists of SQL executor which actually parses the input SQL statements and execute the same.

Advantage of Using PL/SQL

1. Better performance, as sql is executed in bulk rather than a single statement

2. High Productivity
3. Tight integration with SQL
4. Full Portability
5. Tight Security
6. Support Object Oriented Programming concepts.

Basic Difference between SQL and PL/SQL

PL/SQL Block Structure:

Basic Syntax of PL/SQL which is a block-structured language; this means that the PL/SQL programs are
divided and written in logical blocks of code. Each block consists of three sub-parts −

S.No Sections & Description

Declarations
1 This section starts with the keyword DECLARE. It is an optional section and defines all variables,
cursors, subprograms, and other elements to be used in the program.

Executable Commands

2 This section is enclosed between the keywords BEGIN and END and it is a mandatory section. It
consists of the executable PL/SQL statements of the program. It should have at least one executable line
of code, which may be just a NULL command to indicate that nothing should be executed.
 Exception Handling
3 This section starts with the keyword EXCEPTION. This optional section contains exception(s) that
handle errors in the program.
Every PL/SQL statement ends with a semicolon (;). PL/SQL blocks can be nested within other PL/SQL
blocks using BEGIN and END. Following is the basic structure of a PL/SQL block −

DECLARE

<declarations section>

BEGIN

<executable command(s)>

EXCEPTION

<exception handling>

END;

The 'Hello World' Example

DECLARE

message varchar2(20):= 'Hello, World!';

BEGIN

dbms_output.put_line(message);

END;

The end; line signals the end of the PL/SQL block.

PL/SQL Placeholders

Placeholders are temporary storage area. PL/SQL Placeholders can be any of Variables, Constants and
Records. Oracle defines placeholders to store data temporarily, which are used to manipulate data during
the execution of a PL SQL block.

 Define PL/SQL Placeholders

Depending on the kind of data you want to store, you can define placeholders with a
name and a datatype. Few of the datatypes used to define placeholders are as given below.
Number (n,m) , Char (n) , Varchar2 (n) , Date , Long , Long raw, Raw, Blob, Clob, Nclob, Bfile

 PL/SQL Variables

These are placeholders that store the values that can change through the PL/SQL Block.

General Syntax to declare a variable is

 variable_name datatype [NOT NULL := value ];

 variable_name is the name of the variable.

 datatype is a valid PL/SQL datatype.
 NOT NULL is an optional specification on the variable.
 value or DEFAULT valueis also an optional specification, where you can initialize a variable.
 Each variable declaration is a separate statement and must be terminated by a semicolon.

For example, if you want to store the current salary of an employee, you can use a variable.

DECLARE
salary number (6);

The below example declares two variables, one of which is a not null.

DECLARE

salary number(4);

dept varchar2(10) NOT NULL := “HR Dept”;

The below example declares two variables, one of which is a not null.

DECLARE

salary number(4);

dept varchar2(10) NOT NULL := “HR Dept”;

The below example declares two variables, one of which is a not null.

DECLARE

salary number(4);

dept varchar2(10) NOT NULL := “HR Dept”;

Conclusion:
Thus we have successfully implemented PL/SQL block to calculate the area of a circle for a
value of radius varying from 5 to 9.