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    Database Programming with PL/SQL


    2-4: Using Scalar Data Types
    Practice Activities
    Vocabulary
    Identify the vocabulary word for each definition below:

    A datatype that stores one of the three possible values used for
    Boolean
    logical calculations: TRUE, FALSE, or NULL.
    Attribute used to declare a variable according to another
    %type
    previously declared variable or database column.

    Try It / Solve It
    1. Declarations:

    A. Which of the following variable declarations are valid?

    Declaration Valid or Invalid


    a number_of_students PLS_INTEGER; Valid

    b STUDENT_NAME VARCHAR2(10) = Johnson; Invalid

    c stu_per_class CONSTANT NUMBER; Invalid

    d tomorrow DATE := SYSDATE+1; Valid

    B. For the invalid declarations above, describe why they are invalid.
    En la letra b debería der “:=” y en la letra c se debe de declarer un valor literal

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    respective owners.
    C. Write an anonymous block in which you declare and print (on the screen) each of
    the variables in 1A above, correcting the invalid declarations and adding
    information as needed.

    Declare
    Number_of_student pls_integer;
    Student_name varchar2(10) := ‘Johnson’
    Stu_per_class constant number := 1;
    Tomorrow date:=sysdate+1;
    Begin
    Dbms_output.put_line(number_of_student || student_name||
    stu_per_class11 tomorrow);
    End;

    2. Evaluate the variables in the following code. Answer the following questions about
    each variable. Is it named well? Why or why not? If it is not named well, what would
    be a better name and why?

    DECLARE
    country_name VARCHAR2(50); median_age NUMBER(6, 2);
    BEGIN
    SELECT country_name, median_age INTO country_name, median_age
    FROM countries
    WHERE country_name = 'Japan';
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('The median age in '|| country_name || ' is '
    || median_age || '.');
    END;

    Sería major poner un prefijo "v_"

    3. Change the declarations in #2 above so they use the % TYPE attribute.

    DECLARE
    V_country_name
    countries.county_name%TYPE;
    v_median_age
    countries.median_age%TYPE;
    BEGIN
    SELECT country_name, median_age INTO v_country_name, v_median_age
    FROM countries
    WHERE country_name = 'Japan';
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('The median age in '|| v_country_name || ' is '
    || v_median_age || '.');
    END;

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    respective owners.
    4. In your own words, describe why using the % TYPE attribute is better than hard-
    coding data types. Can you explain how you could run into problems in the future
    by hard-coding the data types of the country_name and median_age variables in
    question 2?

    Es importante porque si declara una variable que tendrá una referencia con una columna de
    una tabla, no necesita preocuparse si el tipo de columna o el rango cambian en un futuro

    5. Create the following anonymous block:

    BEGIN
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Hello World');
    END;

    A. Add a declarative section to this PL/SQL block. In the declarative section, declare
    the following variables:

    • A variable named TODAY of datatype DATE. Initialize TODAY with


    SYSDATE.
    • A variable named TOMORROW with the same datatype as TODAY. Use
    the % TYPE attribute to declare this variable.

    B. In the executable section, initialize the TOMORROW variable with an expression


    that calculates tomorrow’s date (add 1 to the value in TODAY). Print the value of
    TODAY and TOMORROW after printing ‘Hello World’.

    DECLARE
    v_today date := SYSDATE;
    v_tomorrow v_today%TYPE := v_today+1;
    BEGIN
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Hello World');
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(V_TODAY);
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(v_tomorrow);END;

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    respective owners.

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