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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, 5394👍, 0💬

What Privilege Is Needed for a User to Connect to Oracle Server
What Privilege Is Needed for a User to Connect to Oracle Server? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle User Accounts, Schema and Privileges Oracle deny connection to users who has no CREATE SESSION privilege. Try the following tutorial exercise, you will find out how Oracle denies connection: >.\bin\sq...
2007-05-02, 5391👍, 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, 5391👍, 0💬

How To Write a Query with a Full Outer Join
How To Write a Query with a Full Outer Join? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL SELECT Query Statements If you want to query from two tables with a full outer join, you can use the FULL OUTER JOIN ... ON clause in the FROM clause. The following query returns output with a full outer join from two ...
2007-04-19, 5389👍, 0💬

What Happens to the Current Transaction If the Session Is Killed
What Happens to the Current Transaction If the Session Is Killed? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Transaction Management 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 rem...
2007-04-18, 5387👍, 0💬

How To Call a Stored Function with Parameters
How To Call a Stored Function with Parameters? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Creating Your Own PL/SQL Procedures and Functions You can define a function that takes parameters, provide values to those parameters when calling the function. Here is a good example of a function with a parameter: SQL> CREATE OR REP...
2007-04-25, 5385👍, 0💬

What Is NULL in PL/SQL
What Is NULL in PL/SQL? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics NULL is a reserved key word and it stands for two things in PL/SQL: NULL is an executable statement, and means doing nothing. NULL is a data balue, and means no value. The following sample script shows you examples of us...
2007-04-29, 5384👍, 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, 5382👍, 0💬

How To Use Attributes of the Implicit Cursor
How To Use Attributes of the Implicit Cursor? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL Right after executing a DML statement, you retrieve any attribute of the implicit cursor by using SQL%attribute_name, as shown in the following tutorial exercise: CREATE TABLE student (id NUMBER(5) PRIMAR...
2007-04-29, 5382👍, 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, 5379👍, 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, 5379👍, 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, 5378👍, 0💬

How Data Locks Are Respected
How Data Locks Are Respected? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Transaction Management Here are the rules on how data locks are respected: All statements ignore data locks owned its own transaction. SELECT query statements ignores data locks owned by any transactions. INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE s...
2007-04-17, 5378👍, 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, 5377👍, 0💬

What Is Oracle Server Autotrace
What Is Oracle Server Autotrace? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Command-Line SQL*Plus Client Tool Autotrace is Oracle server feature that generates two statement execution reports very useful for performance tuning: Statement execution path - Shows you the execution loop logic of a DML statement...
2007-04-29, 5376👍, 0💬

How To Retrieve Data from an Cursor to a RECORD
How To Retrieve Data from an Cursor to a RECORD? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL 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 PROCEDU...
2007-04-29, 5376👍, 0💬

What To Do If DBA Lost the SYSTEM Password
What To Do If DBA Lost the SYSTEM Password? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Command-Line SQL*Plus Client Tool If the DBA lost the password of the SYSTEM user account, he/she can go to the Oracle server machine, and run SQL*Plus on server locally with the operating system authentication method to ...
2007-04-28, 5375👍, 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, 5374👍, 0💬

How To Assign Data of the Deleted Row to Variables
How To Assign Data of the Deleted Row to Variables? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL If a DELETE statement is deleting a single row, you can assign column values of the deleted row to variables by using the RETURNING clause, which an extension of DELETE statements for PL/SQ...
2007-04-27, 5373👍, 0💬

How To Use Group Functions in the SELECT Clause
How To Use Group Functions in the SELECT Clause? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL SELECT Query Statements If group functions are used in the SELECT clause, they will be used on the rows that meet the query selection criteria, the output of group functions will be returned as output of the query....
2007-04-20, 5362👍, 0💬

What Is a Data Lock
What Is a Data Lock? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Transaction Management 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 loc...
2007-04-17, 5360👍, 0💬

How To Recover a Dropped Table
How To Recover a Dropped Table? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Database Tables 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 f...
2007-05-03, 5359👍, 0💬

How To Update Values in a Table
How To Update Values in a Table? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL DML Statements If you want to update some values in one row or multiple rows in a table, you can use the UPDATE statement. The script below shows a good example: UPDATE fyi_links SET counts = 999, notes = 'Good site.' WHERE id = 1...
2007-04-21, 5359👍, 0💬

What To Do If the StartBD.bat Failed to Start the XE Instance
What To Do If the StartBD.bat Failed to Start the XE Instance? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Oracle Database 10g Express Edition If StartBD.bat failed to start the XE instance, you need to try to start the instance with other approaches to get detail error messages on why the instance can not b...
2007-04-24, 5355👍, 0💬

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