The concatenation operator || appends one string operand to another.
SQL> SQL> DECLARE-- from www. j a v a 2 s. c om 2 x VARCHAR2(4) := '1234'; 3 y VARCHAR2(4) := '5678'; 4 BEGIN 5 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (x || y); 6 END; 7 / 12345678 PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL>