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How To Create an Oracle Database
How To Create an Oracle Database? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Creating New Database Instance Manually There are two ways to create a new database: Use the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) to create a database interactively. Use the CREATE DATABASE statement to create a database manually.
2007-04-22, 5210👍, 0💬

What Is the Implicit Cursor
What Is the Implicit Cursor? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL There is only one implicitly cursor in a session. 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...
2007-04-29, 5207👍, 0💬

How To Create a Stored Program Unit
How To Create a Stored Program Unit? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to PL/SQL If you want to create a stored program unit, you can use the CREATE PROCEDURE or FUNTION statement. The example script below creates a stored program unit: SQL> set serveroutput on; SQL> CREATE PROCEDURE Hello AS 2 BEGIN ...
2007-04-25, 5204👍, 0💬

Can Variables Be Used in SQL Statements
Can Variables Be Used in SQL Statements? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL Yes, you can use variables in SQL statements as part of any expressions. The tutorial script provides you some good examples: (Connect to XE with SQL*Plus) CREATE TABLE student (id NUMBER(5) PRIMARY K...
2007-04-28, 5203👍, 0💬

How To Use Windows User to Connect to the Server
How To Use Windows User to Connect to the Server? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle User Accounts, Schema and Privileges During the installation process, 10g XE will create a special Windows user group called ORA_DBA, and put your Windows user into this group. Any Windows users in this group can be...
2007-05-02, 5202👍, 0💬

How To Start the Command-Line SQL*Plus
How To Start the Command-Line SQL*Plus? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Command-Line SQL*Plus Client Tool If you Oracle server or client installed on your windows system, you can start the command-line SQL*Plus in two ways: 1. Click Start > All Programs > Oracle ... > Start SQL Command Line. The ...
2007-04-28, 5201👍, 0💬

What Are Internal User Account
What Are Internal User Account? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle User Accounts, Schema and Privileges An internal user account is a system predefined user account. Oracle 10g XE comes with a number of internal accounts: SYSTEM - This is the user account that you log in with to perform all administ...
2007-05-02, 5200👍, 0💬

What is a Database Schema
What is a Database Schema? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Oracle Basic Concepts A schema is a collection of logical structures of data, or schema objects. A schema is owned by a database user and has the same name as that user. Each user owns a single schema. Schema objects can be created and manipulated with S...
2007-04-21, 5200👍, 0💬

How To Write Date and Time Literals
How To Write Date and Time Literals? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics 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 -...
2007-04-24, 5199👍, 0💬

How To Write Text Literals
How To Write Text Literals? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics There are several ways to write text literals as shown in the following samples: SELECT 'FYICenter.com' FROM DUAL -- The most common format FYICenter.com SELECT 'It''s Sunday!' FROM DUAL -- Single quote escaped It's Sunday! SELE...
2007-04-24, 5198👍, 0💬

How To Write a Query with an Inner Join
How To Write a Query with an Inner Join? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL SELECT Query Statements 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...
2007-04-19, 5196👍, 0💬

What Are the ANSI Data Types Supported in Oracle
What Are the ANSI Data Types Supported in Oracle? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics The following ANSI data types are supported in Oracle: CHARACTER(n) / CHAR(n) CHARACTER VARYING(n) / CHAR VARYING(n) NATIONAL CHARACTER(n) / NATIONAL CHAR(n) / NCHAR(n) NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(n) / NATIO...
2007-04-24, 5195👍, 0💬

How To Create a New User Account
How To Create a New User Account? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle User Accounts, Schema and Privileges If you want to create a new user account, you can log in as SYSTEM and use the CREATE USER command as shown in the following example: >.\bin\sqlplus /nolog SQL> connect SYSTEM/fyicenter Connecte...
2007-05-02, 5194👍, 0💬

What Is an Index Associated with a Constraint
What Is an Index Associated with a Constraint? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Table Indexes An index associated with a constraint because this constraint is required to have an index. There are two types of constraints are required to have indexes: UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY. When you defines a UNIQ...
2007-05-02, 5183👍, 0💬

What Is a Directory Object
What Is a Directory Object? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Loading and Exporting Data A directory object is a logical alias for a physical directory path name on the operating system. Directory objects can be created, dropped, and granted access permissions to different users. The following tutorial exercise sh...
2007-04-30, 5182👍, 0💬

How To Define an Explicit Cursor
How To Define an Explicit Cursor? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL An explicit cursor must be defined in the declaration part of a procedure or function with the CURSOR ... IS statement as shown in the following sample script: DECLARE CURSOR c_list IS SELECT * FROM countries; CURSOR...
2007-04-29, 5180👍, 0💬

How To Get Help at the SQL Prompt
How To Get Help at the SQL Prompt? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Command-Line SQL*Plus Client Tool Once SQL*Plus is started, you will get a SQL prompt like this: SQL&gt;. This where you can enter commands for SQL*Plus to run. To get help information at the SQL prompt, you can use the HELP c...
2007-04-28, 5178👍, 0💬

How To Define a Specific RECORD Type
How To Define a Specific RECORD Type? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL If you want to define a specific RECORD type, you need to use the TYPE ... IS RECORD statement in the declaration part of any procedure or function. The following example script defines a RECORD type cal...
2007-04-27, 5178👍, 0💬

What Is PL/SQL
What Is PL/SQL? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to PL/SQL PL/SQL is a modern, block-structured programming language. It provides several features that make developing powerful database applications very convenient. For example, PL/SQL provides procedural constructs, such as loops and conditional sta...
2007-04-25, 5172👍, 0💬

How To Rename an Index
How To Rename an Index? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Table Indexes 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 studen...
2007-05-02, 5171👍, 0💬

What Is a Subquery
What Is a Subquery? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL SELECT Query Statements A subquery is a SELECT statement used as part of the selection criteria of the main SELECT statement. The subquery specified in the WHERE clause will be evaluated repeated on each row of the selection base table. The ou...
2007-04-19, 5170👍, 0💬

How To Drop an Existing Table
How To Drop an Existing Table? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Database Tables If you want to delete an existing table and its data rows, you can use the DROP TABLE statement as shown in this script: SQL> connect HR/fyicenter Connected. SQL> CREATE TABLE emp_dept_10 2 AS SELECT * FROM employees W...
2007-05-03, 5166👍, 0💬

How To Use SQL Statements in PL/SQL
How To Use SQL Statements in PL/SQL? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to PL/SQL SQL DML (Data Manipulation Language) statements can be included in PL/SQL code blocks directly without any changes. See the script below for examples: SQL> CREATE TABLE tip (id NUMBER(5) PRIMARY KEY, 2 subject VARCHAR(80)...
2007-04-25, 5161👍, 0💬

How To Delete a Column in an Existing Table
How To Delete a Column in an Existing Table? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL DDL Statements If you have an existing column in a table and you need that column any more, you can delete it with ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN statement. Here is an example SQL script: SQL> CREATE TABLE emp_dept_90 2 A...
2007-04-22, 5160👍, 0💬

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