Showing posts with label SQL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SQL. Show all posts

24 Apr 2013

Diffference between SQL and SQL*Plus

Diffrence between SQL and SQL*Plus

SQL : 

  •  SQL is Language.  
  •  It is Based on ANSI Standard SQL.
  •  It is entered into the SQL buffer on one or more lines. 
  •  SQL can not be abbreviated. 
  •  It uses a termination character to execute command immediately.
  •  SQL statements manipulate data and table definition in the database.
SQL*Plus :
  • SQL*Plus is an environment.
  • It is oracle proprietary interface for executing SQL statements.
  • It is entered one line at a time,not stored in the SQL buffer.
  • SQL*Plus can be abbreviated.
  • It does not require termination character.Commands are executed immediately.
  • It does not allow manipulation of values in the database.

21 Apr 2013

Important Oracle Queries that you might Face in an Interview......

Important Oracle Queries that you might Face in an Interview......

Q.What is the purpose of database links in Oracle?

Database links are created to establish communication between different databases or different environments such as development, test and production of the same database. The database links are usually designed to be read-only to access other database information . They are also useful when you want to copy production data into test environment for testing.

Q. What is Oracle's data dictionary used for?

Data dictionary in Oracle contains information about all database objects such as tables, triggers, stored procedures, functions, indexes, constraints, views, users, roles, monitoring information, etc.

Q. Which data dictionary objects are used to retrieve the information about the following objects from a given schema?
1) tables
2) views
3) triggers
4) procedures
5) constraints
6) all of the above mentioned objects

The objects used are:
a> user_tables or tabs
b> user_views
c> user_triggers
d> user_procedures
e> user_constraints
f> user_objects


fferent SQL queries in the same PL/SQL program vs. design time declared explicit cursors with an association to only one query.


Q. You want to view top 50 rows from Oracle table. How do I this?

Use ROWNUM, the pseudo column in where clause as follows:
Where rownum < 51

After complete execution of query and before displaying output of SQL query to the user oracle internally assigns sequential numbers to each row in the output. These numbers are held in the hidden column or pseudo column that is a ROWNUM column. Now it is so simple to apply the above logical condition, as you would have done to any other column of the table.

Q. How do you reference column values in BEFORE and AFTER insert and delete triggers?

The BEFORE and AFTER insert triggers can reference column values by new collection using keyword “:new.column name”. The before and after delete triggers can reference column values by old collection using keyword “:old. column name”.

Q. Can you change the inserted value in one of the columns in AFTER insert trigger code?

This is not possible as the column values supplied by the insert SQL query are already inserted into the table. If you try to assign new value to the column in AFTER insert trigger code then oracle error would be raised. To alter any values supplied by insert SQL query create BEFORE insert trigger.

Q. Explain use of SYSDATE and USER keywords.

SYSDATE is a pseudo column and refers to the current server system date. USER is a pseudo column and refers to the current user logged onto the oracle session. These values come handy when you want to monitor changes happening to the table.



Q. What is the difference between explicit cursor and implicit cursor?

When a single insert, delete or update statement is executed within PL/SQL program then oracle creates an implicit cursor for the same, executes the statement, and closes the cursor. You can check the result of execution using SQL%ROWCOUNT function.

Explicit cursors are created programmatically. The cursor type variable is declared and associated with SQL query. The program then opens a cursor, fetches column information into variables or record type variable, and closes cursor after all records are fetched. To check whether cursor is open or not use function SQL%ISOPEN and to check whether there are any records to be fetched from the cursor use function SQL%FOUND.


Q. Why does a query in Oracle run faster when ROWID is used as a part of the where clause?

ROWID is the logical address of a row - it is not a physical column. It is composed of file number, data block number and row number within data block. Therefore I/O time is minimized retrieving the row, resulting in a faster query.

Q. What type of exception will be raised in the following situations:

a> select..into statement returns more than one row.

b> select..into statement does not return any row.

c> insert statement inserts a duplicate record.

The errors returned are:
a> TOO_MANY_ROWS

b> NO_DATA_FOUND

c> DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX

18 Apr 2013

SQL Commands and Queries (Concepts and Examples)

SQL Commands and Queries

 

 1.CREATE TABLE syntax:-

CREATE TABLE [ IF NOT EXISTS ] table_name
  ( column_declare1, column_declare2, constraint_declare1, ... )
 
column_declare ::= column_name type [ DEFAULT expression ]
  [ NULL | NOT NULL ] [ INDEX_BLIST | INDEX_NONE ]
type ::= BIT | REAL | CHAR | TEXT | DATE | TIME |
  FLOAT | BIGINT | DOUBLE | STRING | BINARY | NUMERIC |
  DECIMAL | BOOLEAN | TINYINT | INTEGER | VARCHAR |
  SMALLINT | VARBINARY | TIMESTAMP | LONGVARCHAR |
  JAVA_OBJECT | LONGVARBINARY

constraint_declare :: = [ CONSTRAINT constraint_name ]
  PRIMARY KEY ( col1, col2, ... ) |
  FOREIGN KEY ( col1, col2, ... ) REFERENCES f_table [ ( col1, col2, ... ) ]
   [ ON UPDATE triggered_action ] [ ON DELETE triggered_action ] |
  UNIQUE ( col1, col2, ... ) |
  CHECK ( expression )
  [ INITIALLY DEFERRED | INITIALLY IMMEDIATE ]
  [ NOT DEFERRABLE | DEFERRABLE ]

triggered_action :: =
  NO ACTION | SET NULL | SET DEFAULT | CASCADE
 
                    CREATE TABLE emp (
                    number VARCHAR(40)  NOT NULL,
                    name   VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
                    add    VARCHAR(50)  NOT NULL,
                    age    INTEGER      NOT NULL,
   
                    CONSTRAINT cust_pk PRIMARY KEY (number),
                    UNIQUE ( number ),              // (An anonymous constraint)
                    CONSTRAINT age_check CHECK (age >= 0 AND age < 200));
 


2. ALTER TABLE syntax:-

ALTER TABLE table_name ADD [COLUMN] column_declare
ALTER TABLE table_name ADD constraint_declare
ALTER TABLE table_name DROP [COLUMN] column_name
ALTER TABLE table_name DROP CONSTRAINT constraint_name
ALTER TABLE table_name DROP PRIMARY KEY
ALTER TABLE table_name ALTER [COLUMN] column_name SET default_expr
ALTER TABLE table_name ALTER [COLUMN] column_name DROP DEFAULT
ALTER CREATE TABLE ....
                    ALTER CREATE TABLE table
                    ( col1 INTEGER NOT NULL UNIQUE, col2 NUMERIC, col3 VARCHAR(90000) )

3. DROP TABLE syntax:-

DROP TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] table_name1, table_name2, ....
Removes the table(s) from the database. The IF EXISTS clause will drop the table only if it exists. If this clause is not present an error is generated if the table does not exist. Any data that was in a dropped table is lost so use with care.


4. CREATE VIEW syntax:-

CREATE VIEW table_name [ ( column_name1, column_name2, ... ) ]
  AS SELECT…..
Creates a new view. A view is a virtual table based on the result of a SELECT query. The content of a view may reference any number of other tables and views.
A simple example of a view follows;
CREATE VIEW Vw_emp AS SELECT sal FROM emp
A view acts like a regular table and can be queried as you would a table made with the CREATE TABLE statement. Views are read-only.


5. DROP VIEW syntax:-

DROP VIEW table_name
Removes a view from the database. A view can be changed by dropping and recreating it.


6. CREATE SEQUENCE syntax

CREATE SEQUENCE name
  [ INCREMENT increment_value ]
  [ MINVALUE minimum_value ]
  [ MAXVALUE maximum_value ]
  [ START start_value ]
  [ CACHE cache_value ]
  [ CYCLE ]
Creates a new sequence generator that can be used to generate an iterative sequence of values. Sequence generators have a number of uses including the creation of primary keys for a table. The INCREMENT, MINVALUE, MAXVALUE, START, and CACHE values are all optional.
The INCREMENT value specifies how the sequence increments each iteration. By default a sequence generator increments by 1. The MINVALUE and MAXVALUE values specify the bounds of the sequence generator. By default MINVALUE and MAXVALUE are 0 and Long.MAX_VALUE respectively. The START value specifies the first key (exclusive) of the generator. The CACHE value specifies how many keys should be cached ahead of time.
Below is an example that creates a new sequence generator called 'seq_key_1' that starts at 10 and increments by 2 each iteration;
CREATE SEQUENCE seq_1 INCREMENT 2 START 10
A sequence generator is accessed by a call to the NEXTVAL function. The NEXTVAL function iterates the generator and returns the next value from the sequence. The NEXTVAL function is an atomic operation and guarantees that no two identical values will be returned regardless of the frequency or concurrency of calls to the function. Below is a simple example;
SELECT NEXTVAL('seq_1')


7. DROP SEQUENCE syntax:-

DROP SEQUENCE name
Drops a sequence generator previously created with the CREATE SEQUENCE statement. A sequence generator may be changed by dropping the sequence and then recreating it.


8. COMPACT TABLE syntax:-

COMPACT TABLE table_name
Compacts the table data file in the file system. This removes all unused space from the table file and may rearrange the structure of the table to a form that better fits the characteristics of the data being stored.


9. CREATE SCHEMA syntax:-

CREATE SCHEMA schema_name
Creates a schema with the given name. By default a database has three schema initially defined, SYS_INFO, SYS_JDBC and APP. The SYS_INFO and SYS_JDBC schema contain a number of important system tables and the APP schema is the default user schema.
The following is an example of creating a new schema and changing to it;
CREATE SCHEMA my_schema;
SET SCHEMA my_schema;


10. DROP SCHEMA syntax:-

DROP SCHEMA schema_name
Drops the schema with the given name. A schema may only be dropped if it contains no tables. The SYS_INFO and APP schema may not be dropped.


11. INSERT syntax:-

INSERT INTO table_name [ ( col_name1, col_name2, .... ) ]
  VALUES ( expression1_1, expression1_2, .... ),
         ( expression2_1, expression2_2, .... ), ....
INSERT INTO table_name [ ( col_name1, col_name2, .... ) ]
  SELECT ...
INSERT INTO table_name
  SET col_name1 = expression1, col_name2 = expression2, ....
This is the SQL command to insert records into a table in the database. This statement comes in three forms. The first inserts data from a VALUES clause;
INSERT INTO table ( col1, col2, col3 )
  VALUES ( 10, 4 + 3, CONCAT('1', '1', 'c') ),
         ( 11, (28 / 2) - 7, CONCAT(col1, 'c') )
The second form is used to copy information from a SELECT query into the table specified in the INSERT statement. For example;
INSERT INTO table ( col1, col2, col3 )
  SELECT id, num, description
    FROM table2
   WHERE description LIKE '11%'
The third form uses a list of column SET assignments. For example;
INSERT INTO table
  SET col1 = 10, col2 = 4 + 3, col3 = CONCAT(col1, 'c')
If a column of the table is not specified in an INSERT the default value declared for the column is used. If no default value was declared a NULL value is inserted in the column. If the column is declared as NOT NULL the insert operation fails.
12. DELETE syntax:-

DELETE FROM table_name
  [ WHERE expression ]
  [ LIMIT limit_amount ]
Deletes all the rows from the table that match the WHERE clause. An optional LIMIT clause specifies the maximum number of matched rows to be removed. An example of using the DELETE statement;
DELETE FROM table
  WHERE col3 LIKE '11%' AND col1 < 1000 LIMIT 200


13. UPDATE syntax:-

UPDATE table_name
  SET col_name1 = expression1, col_name2 = expression2, ....
  [ WHERE expression ]
  [ LIMIT limit_amount ]
Updates information in a table. The SET clause is a list of assignments that describe how the columns of the data matched by the WHERE clause are to be updated. Any columns not assigned in the SET clause are left unchanged. Examples of using UPDATE;
UPDATE Employee
  SET salary = salary * 1.25
  WHERE name = 'Bob'
UPDATE Order
  SET id = id + 3, part = CONCAT(part, '-00')
  WHERE part LIKE 'PO-%'
  LIMIT 10


14. SELECT syntax:-

SELECT [ DISTINCT | ALL ]
  column_expression1, column_expression2, ....
  [ FROM from_clause ]
  [ WHERE where_expression ]
  [ GROUP BY expression1, expression2, .... ]
  [ HAVING having_expression ]
  [ ORDER BY order_column_expr1, order_column_expr2, .... ]
column_expression ::= expression [ AS ] [ column_alias ]
from_clause ::= select_table1, select_table2, ...
from_clause ::= select_table1 LEFT [OUTER] JOIN select_table2 ON expr  ...
from_clause ::= select_table1 RIGHT [OUTER] JOIN select_table2 ON expr  ...
from_clause ::= select_table1 [INNER] JOIN select_table2  ...
select_table ::= table_name [ AS ] [ table_alias ]
select_table ::= ( sub_select_statement ) [ AS ] [ table_alias ]
order_column_expr ::= expression [ ASC | DESC ]
The SELECT statement is used to form queries for extracting information out of the database. The following example query will return the number, quantity and price of all orders for more than 5 items sorted in descending order by order number. In addition it rounds the order price to two decimal places and applies a dollar ($) sign to the output.
  SELECT number, quantity, CONCAT('$', ROUND(price, 2))
    FROM Order
   WHERE quantity > 5
ORDER BY number DESC
The ORDER BY and GROUP BY clause may refer to a column, a column alias, or an expression. The HAVING clause is evaluated after the grouping and aggregate columns have been resolved.
For examples of using SELECT with aggregate functions see the 'Internal SQL Functions' section.


15. COMMIT and ROLLBACK syntax:-

COMMIT
ROLLBACK
Transactional operations for closing a transaction and either committing all the changes made or rolling back and disposing all changes. COMMIT may cause a concurrent transaction conflict exception to be thrown. If a conflict is detected the transaction is automatically rolled back. See the 'Transactions' section of the documentation for further details of how Mckoi handles transactions.


16. CREATE USER, ALTER USER and DROP USER syntax:-
CREATE USER username SET PASSWORD 'password'
[ SET GROUPS groups_list ]
[ SET ACCOUNT ( LOCK | UNLOCK ) ]

ALTER USER username SET PASSWORD 'password'
[ SET GROUPS groups_list ]
[ SET ACCOUNT ( LOCK | UNLOCK ) ]

DROP USER username
These are user management commands for creating/altering and dropping users in the system. Only members of the 'secure access' group are permitted to perform these operations, which includes the administrator user that is setup when the Mckoi database is created.
The following example creates a user called 'harry' with the password 'cat';
CREATE USER harry SET PASSWORD 'cat'
See the 'JDBC Driver' section for documentation on connecting to a database using a username and password to connect to a database.


17. GRANT/REVOKE syntax:-

GRANT privileges ON database_object TO ( PUBLIC | user_list )
[ WITH GRANT OPTION ]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ] privileges ON database_object
FROM ( PUBLIC | user_list )

privileges ::= priv_item1, priv_item2, ...

priv_item ::= ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] | SELECT | INSERT | UPDATE |
              DELETE | REFERENCES | USAGE

database_object ::= [ TABLE ] table_name | SCHEMA schema_name

user_list ::= PUBLIC | username1, username2, ...
Grants or revokes types of access on a table or view to a user. When a table or view is created the system gives full grant options to the user that created the object. The user is given the option to grant other users selective access to the object through the GRANT and REVOKE syntax. For example, the follow statement shows how a user would grant user 'toby' permission to SELECT from a table called MyTable;
  GRANT SELECT ON TABLE MyTable TO toby
The GRANT command allows granting all users access to an object. The following statement makes MyTable globally readable;
  GRANT SELECT ON TABLE MyTable TO PUBLIC
If you wish to give a user the option of granting a privilege to another user, add WITH GRANT OPTION to the GRANT statement.


19. SET syntax:-

SET variable = expression
SET AUTO COMMIT ( ON | OFF )
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL ( SERIALIZABLE )
SET SCHEMA schema_name
Makes a change to the state of the connection. SET AUTO COMMIT is used to switch transaction 'auto commit mode' on or off. When auto commit mode is on the engine commits after every statement. By default, a connection starts with auto commit mode switched on. SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL currently only supports the SERIALIZABLE isolation level. See the 'Transactions' section of the documentation for details of how Mckoi handles transactions.
SET SCHEMA is used to change the default schema of a connection.


20. DESCRIBE syntax:-

DESCRIBE table_name
This command provides information about the columns of the table. It shows the column names, the type / size and scale (if applicable) and other useful information.


21. SHOW syntax:-

SHOW engine_variable
engine_variable ::= TABLES | SCHEMA | STATUS | CONNECTIONS
Shows internal information about the database system. SHOW TABLES returns a list of tables in the database. SHOW STATUS returns debugging and statistical information about the internal state of the database engine. SHOW CONNECTIONS returns a snapshot of the current connections on the database. SHOW SCHEMA lists all the schema defined.


22. SHUTDOWN syntax:-

SHUTDOWN
Shuts down the database. If the database is running as a server the database shuts down cleanly and the process is stopped. If the database is embedded in a Java application it is cleanly put into a shut down state. Only a user with the correct g18-Apr-13rants may successfully execute this command.

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