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Differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT in Oracle
What Are the Differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT in Oracle? The main differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT are: NUMBER stores values as fixed-point numbers using 1 to 22 bytes. BINARY_FLOAT stores values as single precision floating-point numbers.   ⇒ Differences between DATE and TIMES...
2020-04-25, 3537🔥, 0💬

Transaction Rollback When Session Killed in Oracle
What Happens to the Current Transaction If the Session Is Killed in Oracle? If a session is killed by the DBA, the current transaction in that session will be rolled back and ended. All the database changes made in the current transaction will be removed. This is called an implicit rollback when ses...
2019-08-23, 3535🔥, 0💬

Assign a Tablespace to a User in Oracle
How To Assign a Tablespace to a Users in Oracle? When you create a new user, Oracle will assign the SYSTEM tablespace to the user by default. If you want to change this, you can assign a different table space to a user using the ALTER USER command. The following tutorial exercise changes user dev's ...
2019-06-29, 3535🔥, 0💬

Add a New Column to an Existing Table with a Default Value in Oracle
How To Add a New Column to an Existing Table with a Default Value in Oracle? If you want to add a new column to an existing table, and insert a default value in this column on all existing data rows, you can use the ALTER TABLE ... ADD statement with the DEFAULT clause. Here is an example script: SQ...
2019-05-25, 3527🔥, 0💬

Show Dropped Tables in Recycle Bin in Oracle
How To View the Dropped Tables in Your Recycle Bin in Oracle? You can look what's in your recycle bin through the predefined view called RECYCLEBIN. You can use the SELECT statement to list the dropped tables as shown in the following script: SQL&gt; connect HR/fyicenter Connected. SQL&gt; C...
2019-05-14, 3526🔥, 0💬

Built-in Tablespaces in a Database in Oracle
What Are the Predefined Tablespaces in a Database in Oracle? When you create a new database, Oracle server will create 4 required tablespaces for the new database: SYSTEM Tablespace - Every Oracle database contains a tablespace named SYSTEM, which Oracle creates automatically when the database is cr...
2019-01-20, 3521🔥, 0💬

Setup Autotrace for a User Account in Oracle
How To Set Up Autotrace for a User Account in Oracle? If an Oracle user wants to use the autotrace feature, you can use the tutorial as an example to create the required table PLAN_TABLE, the required security role PLUSTRACE, and grant the role to that user: SQL&gt; CONNECT HR/retneciyf SQL&...
2020-06-08, 3519🔥, 0💬

What Is a READ ONLY Transaction in Oracle
What Is a READ ONLY Transaction in Oracle? A READ ONLY transaction is a transaction in which the read consistency is set at the transaction level. In a READ ONLY transaction, a logical snapshot of the database is created at the beginning of the transaction and released at the end of the transaction....
2019-08-23, 3514🔥, 0💬

Use SYS Account to Connect to the Server in Oracle
How To Connect to the Server with User Account: SYS in Oracle? SYS is a very special user account. It has been associated with the highest privilege call SYSDBA. Normally, you should not connect to the server with SYS. But if you want to use it, you need to use a special connect command: &gt;cd ...
2019-07-21, 3514🔥, 0💬

Differences between CHAR and VARCHAR in Oracle
What Are the Differences between CHAR and VARCHAR2 in Oracle? The main differences between CHAR and VARCHAR2 are: CHAR stores values in fixed lengths. Values are padded with space characters to match the specified length. VARCHAR2 stores values in variable lengths. Values are not padded with any cha...
2020-04-25, 3511🔥, 0💬

Oracle Built-in Data Types in Oracle
What Are the Oracle Built-in Data Types in Oracle? There are 20 Oracle built-in data types, divided into 6 groups: Character Datatypes - CHAR, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, VARCHAR2 Number Datatypes - NUMBER, BINARY_FLOAT, BINARY_DOUBLE Long and Row Datatypes - LONG, LONG RAW, RAW Datetime Datatypes - DATE, TIM...
2020-05-29, 3505🔥, 0💬

Divide Query Output into Groups in Oracle
How To Divide Query Output into Groups in Oracle? You can divide query output into multiple groups with the GROUP BY clause. It allows you specify a column as the grouping criteria, so that rows with the same value in the column will be considered as a single group. When the GROUP BY clause is speci...
2019-11-21, 3505🔥, 0💬

Perform a Full Database Export in Oracle
How To Do a Full Database Export in Oracle? If you are ready to do a full database export, you can use the FULL=y parameter on the expdp command, as shown in the following tutorial exercise: &gt;expdp SYSTEM/fyicenter FULL=y ESTIMATE_ONLY=y Starting "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_FULL_01": SYSTEM/**** FUL...
2016-10-15, 3505🔥, 0💬

Numeric Literals in Oracle
How To Write Numeric Literals in Oracle? Numeric literals can coded as shown in the following samples: SELECT 255 FROM DUAL -- An integer 255 SELECT -6.34 FROM DUAL -- A regular number -6.34 SELECT 2.14F FROM DUAL -- A single-precision floating point 2.14 SELECT -0.5D FROM DUAL -- A double-precision...
2020-04-14, 3504🔥, 0💬

ALTER TABLE - Add a New Column in Oracle
How To Add a New Column to an Existing Table in Oracle? If you have an existing table with existing data rows, and want to add a new column to that table, you can use the ALTER TABLE ... ADD statement to do this. Here is an example script: SQL&gt; connect HR/fyicenter Connected. SQL&gt; CREA...
2020-02-29, 3504🔥, 0💬

Delete a Column in an Existing Table in Oracle
How To Delete a Column in an Existing Table in Oracle? If you have an existing column in a table and you need that column any more, you can delete it with ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN statement. Here is an example SQL script: SQL&gt; CREATE TABLE emp_dept_90 2 AS SELECT * FROM employees WHERE dep...
2019-05-25, 3502🔥, 0💬

What Is SQL Standard in Oracle
What Is SQL Standard in Oracle? SQL, SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), is a language for RDBMS (Relational Database Management Systems). SQL was developed by IBM Corporation. SQL became an ANSI standard, called SQL-87, in 1986. ISO made a major revision, called SQL-92, in 1992. The latest ...
2020-05-29, 3497🔥, 0💬

Use Windows User to Connect to the Server in Oracle
How To Use Windows User to Connect to the Server in Oracle? During the installation process, 10g XE will create a special Windows user group called ORA_DBA, and put your Windows user into this group. Any Windows users in this group can be connected to Oracle server with SYSDBA privilege without any ...
2019-07-21, 3496🔥, 0💬

Help at the SQL Prompt in Oracle
How To Get Help at the SQL Prompt in Oracle? Once SQL*Plus is started, you will get a SQL prompt like this: SQL&gt;. This where you can enter commands for SQL*Plus to run. To get help information at the SQL prompt, you can use the HELP command as shown in the following tutorial example: SQL&...
2020-08-25, 3492🔥, 0💬

Use LIKE Conditions in Oracle
How To Use LIKE Conditions in Oracle? LIKE condition is also called pattern patch. There 3 main rules on using LIKE condition: '_' is used in the pattern to match any one character. '%' is used in the pattern to match any zero or more characters. ESCAPE clause is used to provide the escape character...
2020-03-15, 3478🔥, 0💬

Change Settings in Binary SPFile in Oracle
What To Do If the Binary SPFile Is Wrong for the Default Instance in Oracle? Let's say the SPFile for the default instance is a binary file, and some settings are wrong in the SPFile, like SGA setting is bellow 20MB, how do you change a setting in the binary file? This seems to be a hard task, becau...
2020-09-15, 3476🔥, 0💬

What Is a Subquery in Oracle
What Is a Subquery in Oracle? A subquery is a SELECT statement used as part of the selection criteria of the main SELECT statement. The subquery specified in the WHERE clause will be evaluated repeated on each row of the selection base table. The output of the subquery will be used in the final eval...
2019-09-27, 3476🔥, 0💬

Date and Time Literals in Oracle
How To Write Date and Time Literals in Oracle? Date and time literals can coded as shown in the following samples: SELECT DATE '2002-10-03' FROM DUAL -- ANSI date format 03-OCT-02 SELECT TIMESTAMP '1997-01-31 09:26:50.124' FROM DUAL 31-JAN-97 09.26.50.124000000 AM -- This is ANSI format   ⇒ Date and...
2020-04-14, 3472🔥, 0💬

Create a Stored Procedure in Oracle
How To Create a Stored Procedure in Oracle? A stored procedure is a procedure with a specified name and stored into the current database. If you want to create a stored procedure, you can use the CREATE PROCEDURE statement. The example script below creates a stored procedure: SQL&gt; CREATE PROC...
2018-11-11, 3472🔥, 0💬

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