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Scope of Local Variables in Oracle
What Is the Scope of a Local Variable in Oracle? The scope of a variable can be described with these rules: A variable is valid within the procedure or function where it is defined. A variable is also valid inside a sub procedure or function defined. If a variable name is collided with another varia...
2018-10-13, 2589🔥, 0💬

Show Existing Locks on the Database in Oracle
How To View Existing Locks on the Database in Oracle? As can see from the pervious tutorial exercise, performance of the second session is greatly affected by the data lock created on the database. To maintain a good performance level for all sessions, you need to monitor the number of data locks on...
2019-08-08, 2583🔥, 0💬

Export Data with Field Delimiters in Oracle
How To Export Data with a Field Delimiter in Oracle? The previous exercise allows you to export data with fixed field lengths. If you want export data with variable field lengths and field delimiters, you can concatenate your fields with an expression in the SELECT clause as shown in the tutorial ex...
2018-06-27, 2578🔥, 0💬

Update a Table Row with a RECORD in Oracle
How To Update a Table Row with a RECORD in Oracle? If you have a RECORD variable with data fields matching a table structure, you can update a row in this table with this RECORD variable using the UPDATE ... SET ROW statement as shown in the sample script below: CREATE TABLE emp_temp AS SELECT * FRO...
2018-08-14, 2576🔥, 0💬

Drop an Existing Index in Oracle
How To Drop an Existing Index in Oracle? If you don't need an existing index any more, you should delete it with the DROP INDEX statement. Here is an example SQL script: CREATE TABLE student (id NUMBER(5) PRIMARY KEY, first_name VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL, last_name VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL, birth_date DATE N...
2020-02-20, 2573🔥, 0💬

Types of Cursors Supported in PL/SQL in Oracle
How Many Types of Cursors Supported in PL/SQL in Oracle? PL/SQL supports two types of cursors: The implicit cursor - A single default cursor that automatically connects to the last DML statement executed. Explicit cursors - User defined cursors with specific DML statements and execution statuses.   ...
2018-02-01, 2572🔥, 0💬

What Is a Transaction in Oracle
What Is a Transaction in Oracle? A transaction is a logical unit of work requested by a user to be applied to the database objects. Oracle server introduces the transaction concept to allow users to group one or more SQL statements into a single transaction, so that the effects of all the SQL statem...
2019-09-16, 2570🔥, 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, 2567🔥, 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, 2567🔥, 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, 2567🔥, 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, 2564🔥, 0💬

Insert a RECORD into a Table in Oracle
How To Insert a RECORD into a Table in Oracle? If you have a RECORD variable with data fields matching a table structure, you can insert a row to this table with this RECORD variable using the INSERT statement as shown in the example below: CREATE TABLE emp_temp AS SELECT * FROM employees; CREATE OR...
2018-08-14, 2564🔥, 0💬

Drop an Existing View in Oracle
How To Drop an Existing View in Oracle? If you have an existing view, and you don't want it anymore, you can delete it by using the DROP VIEW statement as shown in the following script: DROP VIEW employee_department; View dropped.   ⇒ Understanding SQL DML Statements for Oracle ⇐ Create a New View ...
2020-02-07, 2562🔥, 0💬

Types of Tables Supported by Oracle in Oracle
How Many Types of Tables Supported by Oracle in Oracle? Oracle supports 4 types of tables based on how data is organized in storage: Ordinary (heap-organized) table - This is the basic, general purpose type of table. Its data is stored as an unordered collection (heap) Clustered table - A clustered ...
2019-06-01, 2562🔥, 0💬

Supported Transaction Isolation Levels in Oracle
What Are Transaction Isolation Levels Supported by Oracle in Oracle? Oracle supports two transaction isolation levels: READ COMMITTED (the default option). If the transaction contains DML that requires row locks held by another transaction, then the DML statement waits until the row locks are releas...
2019-08-19, 2560🔥, 0💬

Query with a Right Outer Join in Oracle
How To Write a Query with a Right Outer Join in Oracle? If you want to query from two tables with a right outer join, you can use the RIGHT OUTER JOIN ... ON clause in the FROM clause. The following query returns output with a right outer join from two tables: departments and employees. The join con...
2019-10-18, 2559🔥, 0💬

General Rules on Data Consistency in Oracle
What Are the General Rules on Data Consistency in Oracle? Here is a list of general rules on data consistency: All SQL statements always work with a snapshot of the database to provide data consistency. For READ WRITE transactions, the snapshot is taken when each statement starts. For READ ONLY tran...
2019-08-19, 2559🔥, 0💬

Show All User Accounts in the Database in Oracle
How To Get a List of All User Accounts in the Database in Oracle? If you don't like to use a SELECT statement to get a list of all user accounts in the current database, you can use the Reports view to do this as shown in the following tutorial example. You need to connect to the server as SYSTEM to...
2019-01-26, 2555🔥, 0💬

Use an Explicit Cursor without OPEN Statements in Oracle
How To Use an Explicit Cursor without OPEN Statements in Oracle? If you want to open a cursor and loop through its data rows in quick way, you can use the FOR ... IN ... LOOP statement in the same way as the implicit cursor. The following tutorial exercise gives you a good example: CREATE OR REPLACE...
2018-04-07, 2553🔥, 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, 2550🔥, 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, 2549🔥, 0💬

Rollback the Current Transaction in Oracle
How To Rollback the Current Transaction in Oracle? If you have used some DML statements updated some data objects, you find a problem with those updates, and you don't want those updates to be permanently recorded in the database, you can use the ROLLBACK statement. It will remove all the database c...
2019-09-04, 2548🔥, 0💬

What Is a SELECT Query Statement in Oracle
What Is a SELECT Query Statement in Oracle? The SELECT statement is also called the query statement. It is the most frequently used SQL statement in any database application. A SELECT statement allows you to retrieve data from one or more tables, or views, with different selection criteria, grouping...
2020-01-04, 2546🔥, 0💬

Retrieve Data from an Explicit Cursor in Oracle
How To Retrieve Data from an Explicit Cursor in Oracle? If you have a cursor opened ready to use, you can use the FETCH ... INTO statement to retrieve data from the cursor into variables. FETCH statement will: Retrieve all the fields from the row pointed by the current cursor pointer and assign them...
2018-07-22, 2546🔥, 0💬

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