Many people enjoyed reading my last blog post “10 Oracle SQL features you probably didn’t know”. So I decided to spice it up a little more and do something similar for plsql.

I hope you like that one too.

With our further ado, let’s get started with the list.

10. The first Oracle version to feature plsql was Oracle DB version 6 (1988)

And no. Steven Feuerstein did NOT invent it.

At that time PLSQL did not have stored procedures nor did it have proper exception handling. But it already had embedded SQL.

I learned that from the great Lewis Cunningham. One of the godfathers of development with SQL and PLSQL.

Stored Procedures were added in Oracle 7 (1992). 7.3 was the version when I started to work with an Oracle Database. At that point plsql was in version 2.x. However there never was a version 3. Plsql versioning…