Thursday, September 15, 2011

PL/SQL CONTROL STRUCTURES

PL/SQL has a variety of control structures that allow you to control the behaviour of the block as it runs. These structures include conditional statements and loops.

Ø  If-then-else
Ø  Case
ü  Case with no else
ü  Labeled case
ü  Searched case
Ø  Simple loop
Ø  While loop
Ø  For loop
Ø  Goto and Labels

IF-THEN-ELSE

Syntax:
            If <condition1> then
                Sequence of statements;
            Elsif <condition1> then
                   Sequence of statements;
            ……
            Else
                  Sequence of statements;
            End if;

Ex:
DECLARE
       dno number(2);
BEGIN
       select deptno into dno from dept where dname = 'ACCOUNTING';
       if dno = 10 then
          dbms_output.put_line('Location is NEW YORK');
       elsif dno = 20 then
               dbms_output.put_line('Location is DALLAS');
       elsif dno = 30 then
               dbms_output.put_line('Location is CHICAGO');
       else
               dbms_output.put_line('Location is BOSTON');
       end if;
END;

Output:
                        Location is NEW YORK

CASE

Syntax:
            Case test-variable
                        When value1 then sequence of statements;
                        When value2 then sequence of statements;
                        ……
                        When valuen then sequence of statements;
                        Else sequence of statements;
            End case;
Ex:
DECLARE
      dno number(2);
BEGIN
       select deptno into dno from dept where dname = 'ACCOUNTING';
       case dno
               when 10 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is NEW YORK');
               when 20 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is DALLAS');
               when 30 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is CHICAGO');
               else
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is BOSTON');
        end case;
END;
Output:
                        Location is NEW YORK

CASE WITHOUT ELSE

Syntax:
            Case test-variable
                        When value1 then sequence of statements;
                        When value2 then sequence of statements;
                        ……
                        When valuen then sequence of statements;
            End case;
Ex:
DECLARE
       dno number(2);
BEGIN
       select deptno into dno from dept where dname = 'ACCOUNTING';
       case dno
               when 10 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is NEW YORK');
               when 20 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is DALLAS');
               when 30 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is CHICAGO');
               when 40 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is BOSTON');
               end case;
END;

Output:
                        Location is NEW YORK

LABELED CASE

Syntax:
            <<label>>
Case test-variable
                        When value1 then sequence of statements;
                        When value2 then sequence of statements;
                        ……
                        When valuen then sequence of statements;
            End case;
Ex:
DECLARE
       dno number(2);
BEGIN
       select deptno into dno from dept where dname = 'ACCOUNTING';
       <<my_case>>
       case dno
               when 10 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is NEW YORK');
               when 20 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is DALLAS');
               when 30 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is CHICAGO');
               when 40 then
                         dbms_output.put_line('Location is BOSTON');
        end case my_case;
END;

Output:
                        Location is NEW YORK

SEARCHED CASE

Syntax:
            Case
                        When <condition1> then sequence of statements;
                        When <condition2> then sequence of statements;
                        ……
                        When <conditionn> then sequence of statements;
            End case;
Ex:
DECLARE
        dno number(2);
BEGIN
        select deptno into dno from dept where dname = 'ACCOUNTING';
        case dno
                 when dno = 10 then
                           dbms_output.put_line('Location is NEW YORK');
                 when dno = 20 then
                           dbms_output.put_line('Location is DALLAS');
                 when dno = 30 then
                           dbms_output.put_line('Location is CHICAGO');
                 when dno = 40 then
                           dbms_output.put_line('Location is BOSTON');
        end case;
END;

Output:
                        Location is NEW YORK

SIMPLE LOOP

Syntax:
            Loop
            Sequence of statements;
            Exit when <condition>;
            End loop;

In the syntax exit when <condition> is equivalent to
            If <condition> then
                        Exit;
            End if;
Ex:
                        DECLARE
      i number := 1;
BEGIN
      loop
          dbms_output.put_line('i = ' || i);
          i := i + 1;
          exit when i > 5;
      end loop;
END;

Output:
                        i = 1
i = 2
i = 3
i = 4
i = 5

WHILE LOOP

Syntax:
            While <condition> loop
            Sequence of statements;
            End loop;
Ex:
                        DECLARE
     i number := 1;
BEGIN
     While i <= 5 loop
               dbms_output.put_line('i = ' || i);
               i := i + 1;
      end loop;
END;

Output:
                        i = 1
i = 2
i = 3
i = 4
i = 5
FOR LOOP

Syntax:
            For <loop_counter_variable> in low_bound..high_bound loop
            Sequence of statements;
            End loop;
Ex1:
BEGIN
     For i in 1..5 loop
            dbms_output.put_line('i = ' || i);
      end loop;
END;

Output:
                        i = 1
i = 2
i = 3
i = 4
i = 5

Ex2:
BEGIN
     For i in reverse 1..5 loop
            dbms_output.put_line('i = ' || i);
     end loop;
END;

Output:
                        i = 5
i = 4
i = 3
i = 2
i = 1

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