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What Happens If You Lost a Data File
What Happens If You Lost a Data File? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Tablespaces and Data Files After you shuting down an Oracle database, you accidently deleted a data file from the operating system. If you try to start the database again you will get error when Oracle tries to open the databas... 2007-05-03, 6371👍, 0💬

How To Declare a Local Variable
How To Declare a Local Variable? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics A local variable can be defined in the declaration part with a declaration statement, which is a variable name followed a data type identifier. Below are some examples of declaration statements: PROCEDURE proc_v... 2007-04-30, 6324👍, 0💬

How To Set Up Autotrace for a User Account
How To Set Up Autotrace for a User Account? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Command-Line SQL*Plus Client Tool If an Oracle user wants to use the autotrace feature, you can use the tutorial as an example to create the required table PLAN_TABLE, the required security role PLUSTRACE, and grant the r... 2007-04-30, 6308👍, 0💬

How To Estimate Disk Space Needed for an Export Job
How To Estimate Disk Space Needed for an Export Job? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Loading and Exporting Data If you just want to know how much disk space for the dump without actually exporting any data, you can use the ESTIMATE_ONLY=y parameter on the expdp command. The following tutorial exercise shows you ... 2007-05-01, 6304👍, 0💬

How To Convert Character Types to Numeric Types
How To Convert Character Types to Numeric Types? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics You can convert character types to numeric types in two ways: Explicitly by using TO_NUMBER() function. Implicitly by putting character data in a numeric operation. The sample script below shows ... 2007-04-30, 6288👍, 0💬

How Many Categories of Data Types
How Many Categories of Data Types? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics 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 arra... 2007-04-30, 6287👍, 0💬

Can one bypass the Oracle login screen?
Can one bypass the Oracle login screen? The first thing that the user sees when using runform is the Oracle logon prompt asking them for their username, password, and database to connect to. You can bypass this screen or customise it by displaying your own logon screen. Eg: -- ON-LOGON Trigger decla... 2011-03-22, 6264👍, 0💬

What Is an Anonymous Block
What Is an Anonymous Block? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics An anonymous block is a PL/SQL code block with no name. It consists of three parts: Declaration Part - Defining local variables and local procedures. Declaration part is optional. Execution Part - Defining execution ... 2007-04-30, 6197👍, 0💬

How To Calculate Date and Time Differences
How To Calculate Date and Time Differences? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics If you want to know how many years, months, days and seconds are there between two dates or times, you can use the date and time interval expressions: YEAR ... TO MONTH and DAY ... TO SECOND. The tutorial exercis... 2007-04-23, 6190👍, 0💬

How To Initialize Variables with Default Values
How To Initialize Variables with Default Values? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics There are two ways to assign default values to variables at the time of declaration: Using key word DEFAULT - Appending "DEFAULT value" to the end of declaration statements. Using assignment oper... 2007-04-30, 6162👍, 0💬

What is Oracle Forms and what is it used for?
What is Oracle Forms and what is it used for? Oracle Forms is a 4GL Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment. Forms Builder is used to create applications to enter, access, change, or delete data from Oracle (and other) databases. The Forms Runtime environment is required to execute compiled ... 2011-03-15, 6130👍, 0💬

How To Test NULL Values
How To Test NULL Values? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics There ate two special comparison operators you can use on NULL values: "variable IS NULL" - Returns TRUE if the variable value is NULL. "variable IS NOT NULL" - Return TRUE if the variable value is not NULL. The followi... 2007-04-29, 6114👍, 0💬

How To Drop a Stored Procedure
How To Drop a Stored Procedure? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Creating Your Own PL/SQL Procedures and Functions If there is an existing stored procedure and you don't want it any more, you can remove it from the database by using the DROP PROCEDURE statement as shown in the following script example: SQL> CREAT... 2007-04-26, 6098👍, 0💬

Can one issue DDL statements from Forms?
Can one issue DDL statements from Forms? DDL (Data Definition Language) commands like CREATE, DROP and ALTER are not directly supported from Forms because your Forms are not suppose to manipulate the database structure. A statement like CREATE TABLE X (A DATE); will result in error: Encountered the ... 2011-04-05, 6055👍, 0💬

How To Run a Stored Procedure Interactively
How To Run a Stored Procedure Interactively? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Oracle SQL Developer If have an existing stored procedure and you want to run it interactively, the tutorial steps listed below will help you out: Open you connection name, like Local_XE. Open Procedures. Right-click the... 2007-04-28, 6015👍, 0💬

What Is a Named Program Unit
What Is a Named Program Unit? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics A named program unit is a PL/SQL code block with an name. It consists of three parts: Declaration Part - Defining the program unit name, calling parameters, local variables and local procedures. Declaration part is... 2007-04-30, 5995👍, 0💬

What Is a Procedure
What Is a Procedure? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics 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 - Defin... 2007-04-30, 5968👍, 0💬

What Is the Scope of a Local Variable
What Is the Scope of a Local Variable? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Creating Your Own PL/SQL Procedures and Functions 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... 2007-04-21, 5949👍, 0💬

How To Connect to a Local Oracle 10g XE Server
How To Connect to a Local Oracle 10g XE Server? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Oracle SQL Developer 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 Con... 2007-04-26, 5935👍, 0💬

What Are the Logical Operations
What Are the Logical Operations? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics PL/SQL supports 3 logical operations as shown in the following sample script: PROCEDURE proc_comparison AS x BOOLEAN := TRUE; y BOOLEAN := FALSE; res BOOLEAN; BEGIN res = x AND y; res = x OR y; res = NOT x; -- m... 2007-04-30, 5931👍, 0💬

How To Run SQL Functions in PL/SQL
How To Run SQL Functions in PL/SQL? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL Of course, you can run SQL functions in SQL statements. But many SQL functions can also be executed in regular PL/SQL statements, as shown in the following sample script: DECLARE now DATE; id NUMBER; str V... 2007-04-27, 5881👍, 0💬

What Is SQL*Loader
What Is SQL*Loader? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Loading and Exporting Data 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 multip... 2007-04-30, 5870👍, 0💬

What Is a Connect Identifier
What Is a Connect Identifier? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Command-Line SQL*Plus Client Tool 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 stor... 2007-04-28, 5869👍, 0💬

How To Insert Multiple Rows with One INSERT Statement
How To Insert Multiple Rows with One INSERT Statement? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL DML Statements If you want to insert multiple rows with a single INSERT statement, you can use a subquery instead of the VALUES clause. Rows returned from the subquery will be inserted the target table. The f... 2007-04-21, 5859👍, 0💬

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