Part V: New PL/SQL8 Features

Part V of this tutorial contains the main discussion of the new features of Oracle8 that are relevant to PL/SQL.

• Object Types, describes the Oracle "object-relational model" and how the object features work.
• Nested Tables and VARRAYs, examines the two types of "collection" structures introduced in Oracle8.
• Object Views, describes object views, which let you use object features with conventional relational tables.
• External Procedures, discusses how you can call out to non-PL/SQL programs from within Oracle.