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Data Types Supported in PL/SQL in Oracle
How Many Data Types Are Supported in Oracle? PL/SQL supports two groups of data types: SQL Data Types - All data types used for table columns. PL/SQL Special Data Types - Like BOOLEAN or PLS_INTEGER. The script below shows some data type examples: SQL&gt; set serveroutput on; SQL&gt; DECLARE...
2019-03-20, 2981🔥, 0💬

Run Stored Procedures Interactively in Oracle
How To Run a Stored Procedure Interactively in Oracle? If have an existing stored procedure and you want to run it interactively, the tutorial steps listed below will help you out: Open you connection name, like Local_XE. Open Procedures. Right-click the procedure name: HELLO. Select Run. The Run PL...
2019-01-12, 2979🔥, 0💬

Use Subqueries with the IN Operator in Oracle
How To Use Subqueries with the IN Operator in Oracle? A subquery can be used with the IN operator as "expression IN (subquery)". The subquery should return a single column with one or more rows to form a list of values to be used by the IN operation. The following tutorial exercise shows you how to ...
2019-09-27, 2978🔥, 0💬

Convert Character Types to Numeric Types in Oracle
How To Convert Character Types to Numeric Types in Oracle? You can convert character types to numeric types in two ways: Explicitly by using TO_NUMBER() function. Implicitly by putting character data in a numeric operation. The sample script below shows you how to convert character types to numeric ...
2018-11-17, 2976🔥, 0💬

Run SQL Statements with SQL Developer in Oracle
How To Run SQL Statements with Oracle SQL Developer in Oracle? Once a connection is established with an Oracle server, you can enter any SQL statements in the SQL Statement area. Try yourself with the following steps: Go to the SQL Statement area Enter SELECT username, default_tablespace FROM USER_U...
2018-10-08, 2976🔥, 0💬

Sort the Query Output in Oracle
How To Sort the Query Output in Oracle? If you want the returning rows to be sorted, you can specify a sorting expression in the ORDER BY clause. The following select statement returns rows sorted by the values in the "manager_id" column: SQL&gt; SELECT * FROM departments ORDER BY manager_id; DE...
2019-12-19, 2975🔥, 0💬

in Oracle
How To Delete All Rows from a Table in Oracle? If you want to delete all rows from a table, you have two options: Use the DELETE statement with no WHERE clause. Use the TRUNCATE TABLE statement. The TRUNCATE statement is more efficient the DELETE statement. The tutorial exercise shows you a good exa...
2020-01-04, 2971🔥, 0💬

Recover a Dropped Table in Oracle
How To Recover a Dropped Table in Oracle? If you accidentally dropped a table, can you recover it back? The answer is yes, if you have the recycle bin feature turned on. You can use the FLASHBACK TABLE ... TO BEFORE DROP statement to recover a dropped table from the recycle bin as shown in the follo...
2019-05-14, 2971🔥, 0💬

Create a New Table by Selecting Rows from Another Table in Oracle
How To Create a New Table by Selecting Rows from Another Table in Oracle? Let's say you have a table with many data rows, now you want to create a backup copy of this table of all rows or a subset of them, you can use the CREATE TABLE...AS SELECT statement to do this. Here is an example script: &...
2019-06-01, 2967🔥, 0💬

DROP TABLE Statement in Oracle
How To Drop an Existing Table in Oracle? If you want to delete an existing table and its data rows, you can use the DROP TABLE statement as shown in this script: SQL&gt; connect HR/fyicenter Connected. SQL&gt; CREATE TABLE emp_dept_10 2 AS SELECT * FROM employees WHERE department_id=10; Tabl...
2020-02-20, 2965🔥, 0💬

Apply Filtering Criteria at Group Level in Oracle
How To Apply Filtering Criteria at Group Level in Oracle? If you want to return only specific groups from the query, you can apply filtering criteria at the group level by using the HAVING clause inside the GROUP BY clause. The following script gives you a good HAVING example: SQL&gt; SELECT dep...
2019-11-21, 2964🔥, 0💬

Numeric Comparison Operations in Oracle
What Are the Numeric Comparison Operations in Oracle? PL/SQL supports 6 basic numeric comparison operations as shown in the following sample script: PROCEDURE proc_comparison AS res BOOLEAN; BEGIN res := 1 = 2; res := 1 &lt; 2; res := 1 &gt; 2; res := 1 &lt;= 2; res := 1 &gt;= 2; res...
2018-08-06, 2964🔥, 0💬

Create a Table Interactively in Oracle
How To Create a Table Interactively in Oracle? If you don't want to use SQL statements to create a new table, you use SQL Developer to create one interactively. Follow the steps below to create a new table called: TIP Right-click on the Tables in the object tree area. Select Create TABLE. Create Tab...
2018-10-08, 2963🔥, 0💬

PL/SQL Procedure in Oracle
What Is a Procedure in Oracle? A procedure is a named program unit. It consists of three parts: Declaration Part - Defining the procedure name, calling parameters, local variables and local procedures. Declaration part is required. Execution Part - Defining execution logic with executable statements...
2018-11-29, 2962🔥, 0💬

What Is Oracle SQL Developer in Oracle
What Is Oracle SQL Developer in Oracle? Oracle SQL Developer is a new, free graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies database development tasks. With SQL Developer, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. You can also...
2019-02-18, 2961🔥, 0💬

Pass a Parameter to a Cursor in Oracle
How To Pass a Parameter to a Cursor in Oracle? When you define a cursor, you can set a formal parameter in the cursor. The formal parameter will be replaced by an actual parameter in the OPEN cursor statement. Here is a good example of a cursor with two parameters: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE FYI_CE...
2018-07-18, 2961🔥, 0💬

System Defined User Roles in Oracle
What Are the System Predefined User Roles in Oracle? Oracle 10g XE comes with 3 predefined roles: CONNECT - Enables a user to connect to the database. Grant this role to any user or application that needs database access. RESOURCE - Enables a user to create certain types of schema objects in his own...
2019-07-30, 2960🔥, 0💬

Simplest Tool to Run Commands on Oracle Server in Oracle
What Is the Simplest Tool to Run Commands on Oracle Servers in Oracle? The simplest tool to connect to an Oracle server and run commands to manage data is SQL*Plus. It is an Oracle database client tool that works as a command-line user interface to the database server. SQL*Plus allows you: Format, p...
2018-06-27, 2950🔥, 0💬

Use Existing Column Values in SET Clause in Oracle
How To Use Existing Values in UPDATE Statements in Oracle? If a row matches the WHERE clause in a UPDATE statement, existing values in this row can be used in expressions to provide new values in the SET clause. Existing values are represented by columns in the expressions. The tutorial exercise bel...
2020-01-21, 2947🔥, 0💬

What Is an External Table in Oracle
What Is an External Table in Oracle? An external table is a table defined in the database with data stored outside the database. Data of an external table is stored in files on the operating systems. Accessing data of external tables are done through data access drivers. Currently, Oracle supports t...
2016-11-27, 2946🔥, 0💬

Add Another Datafile to a Tablespace in Oracle
How To Add Another Datafile to a Tablespace in Oracle? If you created a tablespace with a data file a month ago, now 80% of the data file is used, you should add another data file to the tablespace. This can be done by using the ALTER TABLESPACE ... ADD DATAFILE statement. See the following sample s...
2019-04-09, 2945🔥, 0💬

Loop through a Cursor Variable in Oracle
How To Loop through a Cursor Variable in Oracle? Once a cursor variable is opened with a query statement, it will have the same attributes as a normal cursor and it can be used in the same way a normal cursor too. The following sample script shows you how to loop through a cursor variable: CREATE OR...
2018-07-18, 2943🔥, 0💬

Date and Time Differences in Oracle
How To Calculate Date and Time Differences in Oracle? If you want to know how many years, months, days and seconds are there between two dates or times, you can use the date and time interval expressions: YEAR ... TO MONTH and DAY ... TO SECOND. The tutorial exercise below gives you some good exampl...
2020-03-15, 2941🔥, 0💬

Define an Explicit Cursor in Oracle
How To Define an Explicit Cursor in Oracle? An explicit cursor must be defined in the declaration part of a procedure or function with the CURSOR ... IS statement as shown in the following sample script: DECLARE CURSOR c_list IS SELECT * FROM countries; CURSOR t_list IS SELECT * FROM employees WHERE...
2018-07-22, 2940🔥, 0💬

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