An Introduction To Conditional Control Statements In PL/SQL

Conditional control statements are those which allow you to control the execution flow of the program depending on a condition. In other words the statements in the program are not necessarily executed in a sequence rather one or other group of statements are executed depending on the evaluation of a condition.

Types Of Conditional Control Statement in PL/SQL

In Oracle PL/SQL we have two types of conditional control statements which are

1. IF statements and
2. CASE statements

Both these statements can be further divided into different forms. For example IF statements has 3 different forms

1. IF THEN
2. IF THEN ELSE
3. IF THEN ELSEIF

And CASE statement has 2 different forms such as

1. SIMPLE CASE and
2. SEARCHED CASE

I have already done two different tutorials explaining both Simple and Searched Case statements. I highly recommend you to read them.

Also if you are like me and learn better by watching video then check out the video tutorial on Conditional Control Statements here.

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