I’ve always appreciated the CREATE OR REPLACE functionality in Oracle for views, packages and triggers, and I’ve often wanted a similar CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE. Many times, I’ll find myself needing to quickly drop and re-create a table while I’m designing it. This is tedious, becaus...
Using the Oracle SQL Pivot statement, you can accomplish transposing multiple columns. The SQL syntax will be a bit more complex as you will need to use several aggregate functions in the pivot clause. Note that you will need to provide aliases for each function because, otherwise, the query ...
TheONLYway to get a specific orderisto use an ORDER BY. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20186673/in-oracle-11g-how-to-change-the-order-of-the-results-of-a-sql-without-order-by rowid是标识行的唯一性,格式:data object number(6个字符)+relative file number(3...
This article is based on Oracle Database 19c; for earlier versions such as 12c some differences may exist. As a preliminary setup before we learn how to add a column to table, install Toad for Oracle, create an instance of Oracle Autonomous Database 19c (or other) and connect to the d...
When using Oracle SQL, there are many ways to convert data types. Three of the most common data types are string (VARCHAR2), number, and date. Let’s take a look at how you can convert to these types. Table of Contents Converting to a Number in Oracle SQL ...
Before Oracle 12c, we don’t have a direct method of generating an AUTO_INCREMENT column in a table. We need to use the combination of Sequences and Triggers. Now, we have two different ways to implement it. Using IDENTITY column
Step 1: Use the desktop icon to launch Oracle SQL Developer. Step 2: Select the Connections option under View. Step 3: Right-click Connections in the Connections tab and choose New Connection. You’ll see a window asking you to choose a new database connection. Step 4: Fill in the corr...
But I want to SEE both tables at the same time! Then we need to pull out another trick –‘New Document Tab Group.’ Right click on the table editor tab and ask for the new document tab group. Voila. Tab Groups are shown concurrently in the SQL Developer desktop display ...
Copied to Clipboard Error: Could not Copy create or replace package body except_cols_pkg as function describe ( tab in out dbms_tf.table_t, except_cols dbms_tf.columns_t ) return dbms_tf.describe_t as begin for i in 1 .. tab.column.count loop ...
Querying Data at a Point in Time (Flashback Query)Although some Oracle tools and applications simplify or mask the use of SQL, all database operations are performed using SQL, to take advantage of the security and data integrity features built into Oracle.Overview...