why we go for package? what are the advantages of using
instead of seperate procuderes or functions
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Answer / aravinda
package is collection of logically related pl/sql types
,items, subprograms. packages have following advantages over
procedures and functions.
Modularity, easy to design applications, information hiding,
added functionality and best performance.
we can declare global variables in packages which are valid
across application.
without invalidating the package we can modify the package body.
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Answer / ramakrishna
package is collection of logically related pl/sql types
,items, subprograms. packages have following advantages over
procedures and functions are
1.reduces number of acces to database.since, When you call
a packaged PL/SQL construct for the first time, the whole
package is loaded into memory. Thus, later calls to
constructs in the same package require no disk input/output
(I/O).
2.we can have overloading,public and private,encapsulation
features (like java) in package
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