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What’s the difference between PL/SQL and SQL?

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What’s the difference between PL/SQL and SQL?

If you’ve been doing some work on Oracle databases or just learning more about the RDMS, at some point you’re going to stumble across PL/SQL, or “Procedural Language/SQL“. Most programming curriculum I have seen never touches on anything like PL/SQL so it often comes as a complete surprise – so what exactly is PL/SQL, and how does it differ from SQL?

A Straight Forward Explanation of PL/SQL for Beginners

PL/SQL is basically a programming language that exists on Oracle SQL Servers. It can be viewed as an extension of SQL, offering much greater control over the data in the database and how you interact with it. Other RDMS tend to have their own, similar but very different procedural programming languages like Microsoft SQL Server’s T-SQL and Posgres’ PL/pgSQL.

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Code School Review: Quality Courses Outweigh Cost

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Code School Review: Quality Courses Outweigh Cost

About Code School

Code School is an “online learning destination for existing and aspiring developers” based in Orlando, FL, and owned by parent company and fellow online-learning website, Pluralsight. Code School uses theme-based story lines and game mechanics within each course to effectively engage users as they learn programming. They offer quite a few free courses and projects so you can test drive their platform before subscribing to a monthly plan (which is actually a great price for how impressive their course quality is). We did a full Coding School review by going through their Python courses, keep reading to see our findings!
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Best Books for Learning Ruby on Rails

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Best Books for Learning Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a very popular and relatively young web framework that allows developers to spin up web apps extremely quickly. As a result, it’s become extremely popular with startups and the market for Rails developers has exploded over the last several years.

If you found your way here, you likely already know a bit about Rails and why you want to learn it. Before we go any further though, it’s worth quickly mentioning the difference between Ruby and Ruby on Rails for those unaware.

Ruby is a programming language first released in the mid-90’s that most people find to be extremely easy to learn and fun to code with. Ruby on Rails (sometimes just called Rails) is a web framework that is built upon Ruby that adds a lot of functionality for building a web app. It’s important to keep in mind these are two separate things.

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