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Retrieve Data from a Cursor to a RECORD in Oracle
How To Retrieve Data from a Cursor to a RECORD in Oracle? If you have a cursor opened ready to use, you can also use the FETCH statement to retrieve data from the cursor into a RECORD variable as shown in the tutorial exercise below: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE FYI_CENTER AS CURSOR t_list IS SELECT ...
2018-07-22, 2616🔥, 0💬

What Is a Data Lock in Oracle
What Is a Data Lock in Oracle? A data lock is logical flag the Oracle server is placed on data objects to give an exclusive right to a transaction. Statements in other transactions needs to respect data locks based on certain rules. Rules on data locks are: SELECT query statements do not create any ...
2019-08-19, 2613🔥, 0💬

Define a Cursor Variable in Oracle
How To Define a Cursor Variable in Oracle? To define cursor variable, you must decide which REF CURSOR data type to use. There are 3 ways to select a REF CURSOR data type: Define your own specific REF CURSOR types using the TYPE ... RETURN statement. Define your own generic REF CURSOR type using the...
2018-07-18, 2612🔥, 0💬

Run-Away Recursive Calls in Oracle
What Happens If Recursive Calls Get Out of Control in Oracle? What happens if your code has bug on recursive procedure calls, which causes an infinite number nested procedure calls? The answer is not so good. Oracle server seems to offer no protection calling stack limit. The script below shows you ...
2018-03-18, 2611🔥, 0💬

Delete an Existing Row from a Table in Oracle
How To Delete an Existing Row from a Table in Oracle? If you want to delete an existing row from a table, you can use the DELETE statement with a WHERE clause to identify that row. Here is good sample of DELETE statements: INSERT INTO fyi_links (url, id) VALUES ('http://www.myspace.com', 301); 1 row...
2020-01-04, 2610🔥, 0💬

Recovered Tables with Indexes in Oracle
What Happens to the Indexes If a Table Is Recovered in Oracle? If you dropped a table, and recovered it back from the recycle bin, what happens to its indexes? Are all indexes recovered back automatically? The answer is that all indexes will be recovered, if you recover a dropped table from the recy...
2019-04-22, 2609🔥, 0💬

Use Multiple Columns in GROUP BY in Oracle
Can Multiple Columns Be Used in GROUP BY in Oracle? You can use multiple columns in the GROUP BY clause as shown in the following example. It returns how many employees are having the same salary in each department: SQL&gt; SELECT department_id, salary, count(*) 2 FROM employees GROUP BY departm...
2019-10-27, 2606🔥, 0💬

Query with an Inner Join in Oracle
How To Write a Query with an Inner Join in Oracle? If you want to query from two tables with an inner join, you can use the INNER JOIN ... ON clause in the FROM clause. The following query returns output with an inner join from two tables: employees and departments. The join condition is that the de...
2019-10-27, 2605🔥, 0💬

Data Pump Export Utility in Oracle
What Is the Data Pump Export Utility in Oracle? Oracle Data Pump Export utility is a standalone programs that allows you to export data objects from Oracle database to operating system files called dump file set, which can be imported back to Oracle database only by Oracle Data Pump Import utility. ...
2016-10-15, 2601🔥, 0💬

Connect to Local 10g XE Server in Oracle
How To Connect to a Local Oracle 10g XE Server in Oracle? If you have your Oracle 10g XE server running on your local machine, you can connect your Oracle SQL Developer to the server with the following steps: Start Oracle SQL Developer Right-click on Connections Select New Database Connection Enter ...
2019-02-05, 2600🔥, 0💬

Connect to Local 10g XE Server in Oracle
How To Connect to a Local Oracle 10g XE Server in Oracle? If you have your Oracle 10g XE server running on your local machine, you can connect your Oracle SQL Developer to the server with the following steps: Start Oracle SQL Developer Right-click on Connections Select New Database Connection Enter ...
2019-02-05, 2600🔥, 0💬

Cannot Use DDL Statements in PL/SQL in Oracle
Can DDL Statements Be Used in PL/SQL in Oracle? No, you can not run any DDL statements is PL/SQL directly. If you try to use the DROP TABLE statement inside PL/SQL, you will get a compilation error as shown below: (Connect to XE with SQL*Plus) BEGIN DROP TABLE student; -- compilation error END; /   ...
2018-10-13, 2597🔥, 0💬

Grant CREATE SESSION Privilege in Oracle
How To Grant CREATE SESSION Privilege to a User in Oracle? If you want give a user the CREATE SESSION privilege, you can use the GRANT command. The following tutorial exercise shows you how to grant DEV the privilege to connect to the server: &gt;.\bin\sqlplus /nolog SQL&gt; connect SYSTEM/f...
2019-07-09, 2596🔥, 0💬

Rebuild an Index in Oracle
How To Rebuild an Index in Oracle? If you want to rebuild an index, you can use the "ALTER INDEX ... REBUILD statement as shown in the following SQL script: SELECT index_name, table_name, uniqueness FROM USER_INDEXES WHERE table_name = 'EMPLOYEES'; INDEX_NAME TABLE_NAME UNIQUENES -------------------...
2019-04-17, 2596🔥, 0💬

What Is a Cursor Variable in Oracle
What Is a Cursor Variable in Oracle? A cursor variable is a variable of a specific REF CURSOR data type, which is a pointer to a data structure resource connects to query statement result, similar to the CURSOR data type.. The advantage of using cursor variables is that cursor variables can be used ...
2018-04-07, 2596🔥, 0💬

Drop a Tablespace in Oracle
How To Drop a Tablespace in Oracle? If you have an existing tablespace and you don't want it anymore. You can delete a tablespace by using the DROP TABLESPACE statement as shown in the example below: SQL&gt; CREATE TABLESPACE my_space 2 DATAFILE '/temp/my_space.dbf' SIZE 10M; Tablespace created....
2019-04-13, 2595🔥, 0💬

Understanding SQL DDL Statements for Oracle
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on SQL DDL Statements for Oracle? I want to start creating tables. Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on SQL DDL Statements for Oracle. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercise...
2020-02-29, 2593🔥, 0💬

Delete a User Account in Oracle
How To Delete a User Account in Oracle? If you want to delete a user account and its associated schema, you can log in as SYSTEM and use the DROP USER command as shown in the following example: &gt;.\bin\sqlplus /nolog SQL&gt; connect SYSTEM/fyicenter Connected. SQL&gt; DROP USER DEV CAS...
2019-07-09, 2587🔥, 0💬

Clean Up When CREATE DATABASE Failed in Oracle
How To Do Clean Up If CREATE DATABASE Failed in Oracle? To better organize data files, you should create a dedicated directory for each Oracle database. This can be done by using Windows file explorer to create the \oraclexe\oradata\fyi\ directory. Try the CREATE DATABASE statement again, when you h...
2019-03-27, 2586🔥, 0💬

Rename an Index in Oracle
How To Rename an Index in Oracle? Let's say you have an existing index, and you don't like its name anymore for some reason, you can rename it with the ALTER INDEX ... RENAME TO statement. Here is an example script on how to rename an index: CREATE TABLE student (id NUMBER(5) PRIMARY KEY, first_name...
2019-05-01, 2583🔥, 0💬

Remove Data Files before Opening a Database in Oracle
How Remove Data Files before Opening a Database in Oracle? Let's say you have a corrupted data file or lost a data file. Oracle can mount the database. But it will not open the database. What you can do is to set the bad data file as offline before opening the database. The tutorial exercise shows y...
2019-04-09, 2581🔥, 0💬

Categories of Data Types in PL/SQL in Oracle
How Many Categories of Data Types in Oracle? PL/SQL data types are grouped into 4 categories: Scalar Data Types: A scalar data type holds a single value. Composite Data Types: A composite data type has internal components, such as the elements of an array. LOB Data Types: A LOB data type holds a lob...
2018-11-17, 2579🔥, 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, 2578🔥, 0💬

Use of Regular Expression in Oracle
How To Use Regular Expression in Pattern Match Conditions in Oracle? If you have a pattern that is too complex for LIKE to handle, you can use the regular expression pattern patch function: REGEXP_LIKE(). The following script provides you some good examples: SELECT CASE WHEN REGEXP_LIKE ('FYICenter....
2020-03-15, 2578🔥, 0💬

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