VITHAL

• Sep 16th, 2011

To handle this type of procedures we should use pragma autonomous trigger

Dilip Lakshetty

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• Mar 27th, 2011

Better You make your trigger body as autonomous transaction

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Suppose Input table is COL1 COL2 COL 3A 1 -3B -2 6c 3 -4D 9 10In sql query I want the desired output as follows COL1 COL nA 1B 6C 3D 10Please write the query to get this output

fire_starter

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• Sep 15th, 2011

Hello, For my query example I have used the table test_tbl, and the columns col, col1, col2. It also does consider NULL value in comparison, so it will show value on comparing with NULL, and for ev...

BhushanNag

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• Aug 24th, 2011

SELECT COL1, GREATEST(COL2, COL3) FROM max_value_column

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Bhushan

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pavankumar_greek

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• Sep 15th, 2011

Using packages we can run concurrently two programs .
place the programs in two files and create a package which is having the code can open those two files. next we have to register this package to apps.

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MURTHY

• Sep 7th, 2011

the question is very nice. yes we can have 2 triggers with same body but with different names. ex: create trigger trg1 .................... ............................... end; create tri...

Baji Shaik

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• Jun 5th, 2011

yes, we cant said upto 10g oracle server executes the triggers randomly,but 11g we are having a feature follows clause,by using this we have to control the execution of triggers explicitly by the deve...

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Sahaja Mallarapu

• Aug 26th, 2011

A Ref Cursor is a variable that points to cursor.A ref cursor allows you to store the result of a "bulk collect" from a table (or any PL/SQL cursor return set) into a PL/SQL table and then reference ...

Sadashiv

• Aug 8th, 2011

REF Cursor OR Dynamic Cursors: Query associated with cursor is not known at the time of compilation. The select statement associated with cursor is changing at the time of running the program Syntax...

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SURESHMALLIPEDDI

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• Aug 9th, 2011

Select '('||substr(phone,1,3)||')'||substr(phone,4) "formated phone number",phone from phone

paresh Borad

• Aug 1st, 2011

Use this query

create table newphone as (select '(' || substr(phnumber, 1,3) || ')' || substr(phnumber,4,10) "phonenumber" from oldphone)

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What are Composite Variable?

Rams

• Aug 7th, 2011

A composite variable has internal components, which you can access individually. You can pass entire composite variables to subprograms as parameters. PL/SQL has two kinds of composite variables, coll...

agitatedsoul10

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• Aug 4th, 2010

A Variable holds a value in a memory location. The Association of a variable to other variables can be called as composite variables.

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List at least three common ways to write logs in PL SQL?

yogesh

• Aug 4th, 2011

We can't return more than 1 value in function but by using OUT parameter we can get multiple values in function
which is not good programming, by using ref cursor we just save memory location of function doesn't return more than 1 value.

sububhaai

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• May 14th, 2009

1. Create a log table and insert your logging messages into this table.2. Write to a log file, using the DBMS_FILE package, but this is not recomended because there is lot of I/O.

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saeed

• Jul 25th, 2011

Compare EXISTS and IN Usage with advantages and disadvantages.

be_viral

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• Jul 14th, 2008

We should use Exists or In based on the no of records inner and outer query is expected to return.Using Exists : Here the outer query is executed first and then inner query is excecuted for each value...

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manoj_lanser

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• Jul 20th, 2011

%type is used when we have to define the datatype of a variable similar to another existing column data-type. eg- v_id employess.employee_id%type. In this example we have make a variable v_id similar...

Radha

• Jul 14th, 2011

We use %type and %rowtype in PL/SQL programming part. %Type: The variable will assign the datatype which contains in the column of that particular table we mentioned. Ex: v_eno employee.eno%type; ...

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How to know the current database name in PL/SQL?

Saravanan Govindan

• Jul 20th, 2011

Select name from v$database;

Code
 

Saravanan Govindan

• Jul 20th, 2011

Select name from v$database;

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harinath

• Jul 15th, 2011

Cursor is a static,
ref cursor is dynamic,
we can't use ref cursor directly, so we declare cursor variable
cursor variables can't be stored in the database

Rajeshwaran

• Oct 12th, 2006

Cursor is a structure which points to a memory locationswhile Ref-cursor is a datastructure which point to a object which inturn points to Memory locations..the advantage of having Ref-cursor is that we can pass dynamically the Ref-cursor as a parameter to a procedures..

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Radha

• Jul 14th, 2011

We use view to be confidential about the data and to avoid the complexity of a query. But Mviews are used for performance problem, we use mviews for faster execution of a query. But we need to do regular refresh for mviews.

pawan_kr2007

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• Oct 11th, 2009

View: If a query is being used again and again then its better to create a view with that query. The query gets stored in database as an object.Materialized view: When you want you replicate the main ...

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Radha

• Jul 14th, 2011

Triggers fire when any condition on such trigger is satisfied...but we don't know when that trigger is going to be fired and if it is fired where can we see output of DBMS_output.put_line.

If we want to see output of trigger when it is fired we should mention Raise_application_error in trigger.

pawan_kr2007

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• Oct 11th, 2009

If you 'set serveroutput on' and execute the statement which fires the trigger the message will display on prompt otherwise it will not.

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Radha

• Jul 14th, 2011

Questions Like: Difference between Delete and Truncate Difference between Sub query and Correlated sub query Difference between Decode and Case Different Types of constraints Difference between...

Reks

• Jan 10th, 2007

Questions like:what is the advantage and disadvantage of packageswhat is the use of cursorsWhat are the exceptiions found in select queryhow to select duplicate rows,odd number of rowshow do we use de...

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Radha

• Jul 13th, 2011

Flash Back query is used to get back the deleted rows & dropped tables from the database even they are committed. To get back the dropped table: Flashback table to before drop; To get back...

murthy 1053

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• Jul 2nd, 2010

Flash back query is used to retrive the data.For ex if a table is dropped and we want the table again so at that time.syn:=FLASHBACK TABLE table_name TO BEFORE DROP.This will work only if recycled bin is not purged.

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Radha

• Jul 13th, 2011

Yes we can add NOT NULL constraint for the column already containing data as: If the data doesn't have null values then - Alter table modify constraint ; If the data contains null values...

monoranjang

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• Jan 24th, 2011

Yes possible, try the below query:ALTER TABLE test add c1 VARCHAR2(10) DEFAULT ('a') not nullThanksMonoranjan

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kool.bird9

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• Jul 9th, 2011

Oracle ROWID uniquely identifies where a row resides on disk.  The information in a ROWID gives Oracle everything it needs to find your row, the disk number, the cylinder, block and offset ...

RajivPrasad

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• May 8th, 2007

Also as mentioned by our friend rowid is a unique hexadecimal format integer which takes up the representation as below      File: Block: Row One can retrieve rowid by using t...

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nade_rs

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• Jun 25th, 2011

We can also  make use of compound trigger (new feature in  11 g to avoid mutating error)

Baji Shaik

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• Jun 5th, 2011

The? row level trigger based on a table,the trigger body can't read thedata? from same table, if you are trying to this it gives mutating errorto avoid that you must use statement level trigger

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muraligrandhi

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• Jun 23rd, 2011

A forward declaration means that modules (procedures and functions) are declared in advance of their actual body definition. For example, if program A calls program B and program B calls program A,&nb...

KD09714

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• Jun 26th, 2008

Example of forward declaration in package : CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE pkg_CBRef_Seq AS PROCEDURE sp_CBRCreateDropSeq_scd ( p_cod_CountryCode IN country.country_code%TYPE, ...

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