why we go for package? what are the advantages of using instead of seperate pr

why we go for package? what are the advantages of using
instead of seperate procuderes or functions

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why we go for package? what are the advantages of using instead of seperate procuderes or function..

Answer / aravinda

package is collection of logically related pl/sql types
,items, subprograms. packages have following advantages over
procedures and functions.

Modularity, easy to design applications, information hiding,
added functionality and best performance.

we can declare global variables in packages which are valid
across application.

without invalidating the package we can modify the package body.

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why we go for package? what are the advantages of using instead of seperate procuderes or function..

Answer / dhiraj

Packages are bunch of procedures and functions instead of
granting one by one procedure and function DBA can grant
packge to user.

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why we go for package? what are the advantages of using instead of seperate procuderes or function..

Answer / ramakrishna

package is collection of logically related pl/sql types
,items, subprograms. packages have following advantages over
procedures and functions are

1.reduces number of acces to database.since, When you call
a packaged PL/SQL construct for the first time, the whole
package is loaded into memory. Thus, later calls to
constructs in the same package require no disk input/output
(I/O).

2.we can have overloading,public and private,encapsulation
features (like java) in package

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