Packages have subprograms (procedures and functions). Object types have methods. Object type methods are, still, procedures and functions. But there are also different types and characteristics of methods that only make sense in an object type, which supports inheritance and dynamic polymorphism. In this post, 3rd in my series on object types, I explore Static methods Member methods Non-instantiable methods Invoking methods of super types All the code you see below can be run in Oracle LiveSQL through this script . Member Methods Member methods are methods applied to an instance of the type. Almost all the methods you ever write for an object type will be a member method. Assuming you are already familiar with writing PL/SQL functions and procedures, the most important thing to come up to speed on is the SELF value. Member methods have a built-in (implicit) parameter named SELF that denotes the object instance currently invoking the method. We'll...
For the last twenty years, I have managed to transform an obsession with PL/SQL into a paying job. How cool is that?