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You create a package specification using the CREATE PACKAGE statement.

The simplified syntax for the CREATE PACKAGE statement is as follows:

CREATE [OR REPLACE] PACKAGE package_name
{IS | AS}
  package_specification
END package_name;

package_specification specifies the list of procedures and functions (along with any variables, type definitions, and cursors) that are available to your package's users.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE employee_package AS
  2    TYPE t_ref_cursor IS REF CURSOR;
  3    FUNCTION get_employee_ref_cursor RETURN t_ref_cursor;
  4    PROCEDURE update_salary (
  5      p_id IN VARCHAR2,
  6      p_factor IN NUMBER
  7    );
  8  END employee_package;
  9  /

Package created.

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27.10.Packages
27.10.1.Packages
27.10.2.Private Versus Public Package Objects
27.10.3.Package State
27.10.4.Recompiling Packages
27.10.5.All packages can be recompiled by using the Oracle utility dbms_utility:
27.10.6.Creating a Package Specification
27.10.7.Creating a Package Body
27.10.8.Creating Packages and call its functions
27.10.9.Calling Functions and Procedures in a Package
27.10.10.A Package Specification and its body
27.10.11.Overloading Packaged Subprograms
27.10.12.Calls procedure in a package
27.10.13.Dropping a Package
27.10.14.Calling a Cursor Declared in a Different Package
27.10.15.Reference fields and methods in package
27.10.16.Controlling access to packages
27.10.17.Globals Stored in a Package
27.10.18.A Subtypes Example
27.10.19.Generate Random number
27.10.20.Crosss reference between two packages
27.10.21.package RECURSION
27.10.22.Using RESTRICT_REFERENCES in a Package
27.10.23.PLS-00452: Subprogram 'GETNAME' violates its associated pragma
27.10.24.Dynamically create packages