A package in Oracle is a schema object that groups a collection of PL/SQL objects together to form a meta-block/pseudo-object. You can place cursors, variables, constants, exception names, PL/SQL table and record types, functions, procedures etc in a package.
So, you can abstract the implementation details of your schema and formulate an application-neutral API to your data (i.e. a facade).
And by the way, that's what they are called in Oracle lingo; packages.
Kleanthis
On Apr 26, 2005, at 15:41, Cliff Meyers wrote:
Can you explain what you mean by "packages" with respect to Oracle?
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