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How To Assign a Table Row to a RECORD Variable
How To Assign a Table Row to a RECORD Variable? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL If you have a table, and want to assign a data row of that table to a RECORD variable, you need to define this RECORD variable to match the table column structure, then use the SELECT ... INTO ... 2007-04-27, 5214👍, 0💬

How To Specify Default Values in INSERT Statement
How To Specify Default Values in INSERT Statement? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL DML Statements If a column is defined with a default value in a table, you can use the key word DEFAULT in the INSERT statement to take the default value for that column. The following tutorial exercise gives a g... 2007-04-21, 5210👍, 0💬

How To Retrieve Values from Data Fields in RECORD Variables
How To Retrieve Values from Data Fields in RECORD Variables? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL If a variable is a RECORD variable with data fields assigned values, you can retrieve those values out of its data fields by using fields names prefixed with variable name as "vari... 2007-04-27, 5208👍, 0💬

How To Use Regular Expression in Pattern Match Conditions
How To Use Regular Expression in Pattern Match Conditions? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics 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 ... 2007-04-22, 5207👍, 0💬

Can Group Functions Be Mixed with Non-group Selection Fields
Can Group Functions Be Mixed with Non-group Selection Fields? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL SELECT Query Statements If a group function is used in the SELECT clause, all other selection fields must be group level fields. Non-group fields can not be mixed with group fields in the SELECT clause... 2007-04-20, 5205👍, 0💬

How To Assign a Tablespace to a Users
How To Assign a Tablespace to a Users? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle User Accounts, Schema and Privileges 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 USE... 2007-05-01, 5203👍, 0💬

Can DDL Statements Be Used in PL/SQL
Can DDL Statements Be Used in PL/SQL? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL 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 D... 2007-04-28, 5201👍, 0💬

What Is a RECORD in PL/SQL
What Is a RECORD in PL/SQL? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL RECORD is a composite data type in PL/SQL. It can have many fields representing data elements with different data types. Variables of RECORD type can be designed to hold data from database table rows. To use RECOR... 2007-04-27, 5194👍, 0💬

How To Open a Cursor Variable
How To Open a Cursor Variable? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL A cursor variable must be opened with a specific query statement before you can fetch data fields from its data rows. To open a cursor variable, you can use the OPEN ... FOR statement as shown in the following tutorial ... 2007-04-28, 5192👍, 0💬

What Are the Oracle Built-in Data Types
What Are the Oracle Built-in Data Types? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics 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, ... 2007-04-24, 5186👍, 0💬

What Is a Parameter File
What Is a Parameter File? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Oracle Basic Concepts A parameter file is a file that contains a list of initialization parameters and a value for each parameter. You specify initialization parameters in a parameter file that reflect your particular installation. Oracle supports the fol... 2007-04-21, 5186👍, 0💬

How To Execute a Stored Program Unit
How To Execute a Stored Program Unit? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to PL/SQL If you want to execute a stored program unit, you can use the EXECUTE statement. The example script below shows how to executes a stored program unit: SQL> set serveroutput on; SQL> CREATE PROCEDURE Hello AS 2 BEGIN 3 DB... 2007-04-25, 5185👍, 0💬

How To Pass a Cursor Variable to a Procedure
How To Pass a Cursor Variable to a Procedure? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL A cursor variable can be passed into a procedure like a normal variable. The sample script below gives you a good example: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE FYI_CENTER AS sys_cur SYS_REFCURSOR; PROCEDURE emp_pr... 2007-04-28, 5184👍, 0💬

Why Cursor Variables Are Easier to Use than Cursors
Why Cursor Variables Are Easier to Use than Cursors? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL Cursor variables are easier to use than cursors because: Cursor variables are easier to define. No need to give a specific query statement. Cursor variables are easier to open. You can specify the ... 2007-04-28, 5183👍, 0💬

How To Pass Parameters to Procedures
How To Pass Parameters to Procedures? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Creating Your Own PL/SQL Procedures and Functions Store procedures or functions can take parameters. You need to define parameters while defining the procedure, and providing values to parameters while calling the procedure. The script below s... 2007-04-26, 5183👍, 0💬

How To Select Some Rows from a Table
How To Select Some Rows from a Table? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL SELECT Query Statements If you don't want select all rows from a table, you can specify a WHERE clause to tell the query to return only the rows that meets the condition defined in the WHERE clause. The following select state... 2007-04-21, 5182👍, 0💬

What Is the Implicit Cursor
What Is the Implicit Cursor? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL The implicit cursor is the cursor automatically defined by PL/SQL for you. Whenever a SQL statement is executed, this cursor will be assigned to represent the execution of this statement. This implicit cursor is ... 2007-04-27, 5181👍, 0💬

What Is a Database Table
What Is a Database Table? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Database Tables A database table is a basic unit of data logical storage in an Oracle database. Data is stored in rows and columns. You define a table with a table name, such as employees, and a set of columns. You give each column a colum... 2007-05-03, 5178👍, 0💬

What Is a Recycle Bin
What Is a Recycle Bin? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Database Tables Recycle bin is a logical storage to hold the tables that have been dropped from the database, in case it was dropped in error. Tables in recycle bin can be recovered back into database by the Flashback Drop action. Oracle data... 2007-05-04, 5177👍, 0💬

How Does Oracle Handle Read Consistency
How Does Oracle Handle Read Consistency? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Transaction Management Oracle supports two options for you on how to maintain read consistency: READ WRITE (the default option), also called statement-level read consistency. READ ONLY, also called transaction-level read c... 2007-04-18, 5176👍, 0💬

How To Use Existing Values in UPDATE Statements
How To Use Existing Values in UPDATE Statements? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL DML Statements 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 ... 2007-04-21, 5175👍, 0💬

How To List All Indexes in Your Schema
How To List All Indexes in Your Schema? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Table Indexes If you log in with your Oracle account, and you want to get a list of all indexes in your schema, you can get it through the USER_INDEXES view with a SELECT statement, as shown in the following SQL script: SELEC... 2007-05-02, 5174👍, 0💬

What Is a Cursor
What Is a Cursor? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL A cursor looks like a variable, but it is not a variable. A cursor looks like a procedure, but it is not a procedure. A cursor is a cursor. It is a logical representation of a resource connects to a set of data rows related to a DML... 2007-04-29, 5174👍, 0💬

How To Define a Cursor Variable
How To Define a Cursor Variable? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL 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 yo... 2007-04-28, 5172👍, 0💬

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