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Overflow Errors on Converting Big Values to NUMERIC in SQL Server
What Happens When Converting Big Values to NUMERIC Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you are converting a numeric expression to a NUMERIC data type and the value is too big for the storage size, you will get an arithmetic overflow error as shown in the following examples: -- Overflow error o... 2017-03-22, 3492🔥, 0💬

"sp_help" - Getting a List of Columns in a Table in SQL Server
How To Get a List of Columns using the "sp_help" Stored Procedure in SQL Server? Another way to get a list of columns from a table is to use the "sp_help" stored procedure. "sp_help" returns more than just a list of columns. It returns: the table information, the column information, the identity col... 2016-11-17, 3492🔥, 0💬

Indexes for the PRIMARY KEY Column in Oracle
What Is an Index Associated with a Constraint in Oracle? An index associated with a constraint because this constraint is required to have an index. There are two types of constraints are required to have indexes: UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY. When you defines a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint in a table... 2019-05-01, 3488🔥, 0💬

What Is a Connect Identifier in Oracle
What Is a Connect Identifier in Oracle? A "connect identifier" is an identification string of a single set of connection information to a specific target database instance on a specific Oracle server. Connect identifiers are defined and stored in a file called tnsnames.ora located in $ORACLE_HOME/ne... 2020-08-13, 3485🔥, 0💬

What Are Logical/Boolean Operations in SQL Server
What Are Logical/Boolean Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Logical (Boolean) operations are performed on Boolean values with logical operators like 'AND', 'OR', or 'NOT'. Logical operations return Boolean values. SQL Server 2005 supports the following logical operations: AND - Returns TRUE if b... 2017-01-11, 3476🔥, 0💬

What Is SQL*Loader in Oracle
What Is SQL*Loader in Oracle? SQL*Loader is a database tool that allows to load data from external files into database tables. SQL*Loader is available as part of the free Oracle 10g Expression Edition. It has some interesting features as: Can load data from multiple data files into multiple tables i... 2018-06-12, 3475🔥, 0💬

Testing New User Account and Password in MySQL
How To Test a New User Account and Password in MySQL? If you have new user created with a password, you test it using "mysql" program with the "-u" and "-p" options. The following tutorial exercise shows you some interesting use cases of connecting to the server with user names and passwords: &g... 2017-09-08, 3470🔥, 0💬

"sys.objects" - Listing All Objects in a Given Schema in SQL Server
How To List All Objects in a Given Schema in SQL Server? If you are wonder what objects are stored in a given schema as an object container, you can use view "sys.objects" to get a list of all objects in a schema. The tutorial exercise shows you how to list all objects in schema "fyi" and "dbo": -- ... 2016-10-22, 3470🔥, 0💬

BREAK of Loop Statement in SQL Server Transact-SQL
How to break a WHILE look statement in SQL Server Transact-SQL? How to use BREAK statements? You can use the BREAK statement to break a WHILE loop inside the statement block in Transact-SQL using this syntax: WHILE condition BEGIN statement_1 statement_2 ... BREAK; statement_n ... END When a BREAK s... 2017-01-11, 3468🔥, 0💬

Differences between BLOB and CLOB in Oracle
What Are the Differences between BLOB and CLOB in Oracle? The main differences between BLOB and CLOB are: BLOB stores values as LOB (Large OBject) in bitstreams. CLOB stores values as LOB (Large OBject) in character steams.   ⇒ ANSI Data Types in Oracle ⇐ Differences between INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH ... 2020-04-14, 3463🔥, 0💬

User Role: Group of Privileges in Oracle
What Is a User Role in Oracle? A user role is a group of privileges. Privileges are assigned to users through user roles. You create new roles, grant privileges to the roles, and then grant roles to users.   ⇒ System Defined User Roles in Oracle ⇐ User Account and Schema: One-to-One Relation in Ora... 2019-07-30, 3462🔥, 0💬

Verifying SQL Server Running Status in SQL Server
How do you know if SQL Server is running on your local system in SQL Server? After installing SQL Server 2006 Express Edition, it will be running on your local system quietly as a background process. If you want to see this process is running, run Windows Task Manager. You should see a process calle... 2016-12-08, 3456🔥, 0💬

"SELECT ... INTO" - Creating New Tables With Queries in SQL Server
How to create new tables with "SELECT ... INTO" statements in SQL Server? 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 "SELECT ... INTO" statement. The tutorial script below gives you a good exampl... 2016-11-17, 3450🔥, 0💬

Start 10g XE Server from Command Line in Oracle
How To Start Your 10g XE Server from Command Line in Oracle? You can start your 10g XE server from command line by: Open a command line window. Change directory to \oraclexe\app\oracle\product\1 0.2.0\server\BIN\.Run StartDB.bat. The batch file StartDB.bat contains: net start OracleXETNSListener net... 2020-10-10, 3447🔥, 0💬

Run PL/SQL Statements in SQL*Plus in Oracle
How To Run PL/SQL Statements in SQL*Plus in Oracle? If you want to run a single PL/SQL statement in SQL*Plus, you need to use the EXECUTE command as shown in the following tutorial example: SQL&gt; SET SERVEROUTPUT ON SQL&gt; EXECUTE DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Welcome to FYIcenter!') Welcome to F... 2020-07-22, 3447🔥, 0💬

Converting Character Strings to Numeric Values in MySQL
How To Convert Character Strings to Numeric Values in MySQL? You can convert character strings to numeric values by using the CAST(string AS DECIMAL) or CAST(string AS SIGNED INTEGER) function as shown in the following examples: SELECT CAST('4123.45700' AS DECIMAL) FROM DUAL; 4123.46 -- Very poor co... 2018-03-28, 3447🔥, 0💬

Call Procedure or Function Recursively in Oracle
Can Sub Procedure/Function Be Called Recursively in Oracle? PL/SQL allows sub procedures or functions to be called recursively. The tutorial example below shows you how to calculate factorial values with a recursive sub function: SQL&gt; CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE FACTORIAL_TEST AS 2 FUNCTION F... 2018-03-18, 3447🔥, 0💬

What Is System Global Area in Oracle
What Is System Global Area (SGA) in Oracle? The System Global Area (SGA) is a memory area that contains data shared between all database users such as buffer cache and a shared pool of SQL statements. The SGA is allocated in memory when an Oracle database instance is started, and any change in the v... 2020-07-07, 3442🔥, 0💬

Converting Binary Strings into Character Strings in SQL Server
Can Binary Strings Be Converted into Character Strings in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Binary strings and character strings are convertible. But there are several rules you need to remember: Binary strings can be converted implicitly to character strings by assignment operations. Binary strings can not ... 2017-02-28, 3435🔥, 0💬

Running "mysql" Commands from a Batch File in MySQL
How To Run "mysql" Commands from a Batch File in MySQL? If you have group of "mysql" commands that need to be executed repeatedly, you can put them into a file, and run them from the file in "mysql" batch mode. Here is a batch file, \temp\links.sql, contains following commands: USE test; INSERT INTO... 2018-02-08, 3432🔥, 0💬

CHARSET() - Detecting Character Set Name
How to detect the character set name associated to a given character string using the CHARSET() function? CHARSET(str) is a MySQL built-in function that returns the character set name associated to a given character string. A character set name refers to a set of rules to encode a set of characters ... 2025-10-24, 3424🔥, 0💬

Assign Query Results to Variables in Oracle
How To Assign Query Results to Variables in Oracle? If you want to assign results from SELECT statements to variables, you can use the INTO clause, which an extension of SELECT statements for PL/SQL. The sample code below shows some good example on INTO clause: DECLARE total NUMBER; now DATE; fname ... 2018-09-24, 3420🔥, 0💬

Create a Stored Function in Oracle
How To Create a Stored Function in Oracle? A stored function is a function with a specified name and stored into the current database. If you want to create a stored function, you can use the CREATE FUNCTION statement. The example script below creates a stored procedure: SQL&gt; CREATE OR REPLAC... 2018-11-11, 3415🔥, 0💬

"sys.columns" - Getting a List of Columns in a Table in SQL Server
How To Get a List of Columns using the "sys.columns" View in SQL Server? If you have an existing table, but you don't remember what are the columns defined in the table, you can use the "sys.columns" system view to get a list of all columns of all tables in the current database. In order to a list o... 2016-11-17, 3414🔥, 0💬

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