Stored Procedures in PL/SQL Many modern databases support a more procedural approach to databases—they allow youto write procedural code to work with data. Usually, it takes the form of SQL interweavedwith the more familiar IF statements, etc. Note that this has nothing to do with accessing the database. You can access any database from virtually any language. What we’re talking about is the code that is executed by thedatabase server. While there are many various ‘database’ languages, we will only talk about the primary two: T-SQL, which is supported by SQL Server and Sybase, and PL/SQL, which is supportedby Oracle. Many other languages may be supported. For example, Oracle allows you to write stored procedures and triggers in Java, etc. 1.1 Oracle Users Before you start working within this section, it’s a good idea to create a user to play with.You can do that (in Oracle) via the ‘create user’ statement, ie: SQL> create user blah identified by glah;