Literals as variable values : Introduction « PL SQL Programming « Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial






  1. Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial
  2. PL SQL Programming
  3. Introduction

Literals are explicit numeric, character, string, or Boolean values not represented by an identifier.

Two types of numeric literals exist:

  1. Integer literals represent optionally signed numeric values without decimal points.
  2. Real literals represent optionally signed whole or fractional numbers with decimal points.








24.1.Introduction
24.1.1.Writing a simple program
24.1.2.Each complete line of the PL/SQL code must end with a semicolon (;).
24.1.3.Anonymous Block Structure
24.1.4.An example of an anonymous block.
24.1.5.Anonymous blocks can be nested in the procedure and exception blocks in as many levels as you want
24.1.6.The Lexical Set of Elements
24.1.7.Delimiters
24.1.8.Comments
24.1.9.Multi-line comments start with /* and end with */.
24.1.10.Declaring variables
24.1.11.Declaring a Variable by Reference
24.1.12.There are some restrictions on the declaration of variables:
24.1.13.Assigning values to variables
24.1.14.Assign SQL query results to PL/SQL variables
24.1.15.Literals as variable values
24.1.16.Examples of Integer and Real Literals
24.1.17.Numeric literals cannot contain dollar signs or commas, but they can be written in scientific notation
24.1.18.Character and string literals in the Oracle world are enclosed by single quotes