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A method of encapsulating and storing related procedures, functions, variables, and other package constructs together as a unit in the database or on the client. While packages provide the database administrator or application developer organizational benefits, they also offer increased functionality and database performance. The software provides several Built-in packages which contain PL/SQL constructs that can be referenced by client-side program units (e.g., TEXT_IO package). Several packages are also supplied with the Oracle database server for referencing by stored program units (e.g., DBMS_OUTPUT package).