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How Oracle ATG web commerce platform benefits the e-commerce sites

In Spite of tough competition in the marketplace, many brands are competing with one another to showcase their products and to drive the best customer experience. Presenting your business online is not enough to fight the competition, you need to...

DECODE function

DECODE function: DECODE function works similar to if-else statement or case statement. DECODE compares expression to each search value one by one and returns the result of that search which is equal to the expression. If there is no match than...

Check Constraint

Check Constraint: It is used to restrict the range of values that can be inserted in a column. If a column contain check constraint then only a particular range of values can be inserted in that column. Example: CREATE TABLE Employee( ...

Adding multiple rows with a single Insert Statement

INSERT ALL Statement: With the help of INSERT ALL statement we can add multiple rows with a single INSERT statement. We can use this statement to insert multiple rows in one or more than one tables. It eliminates the need of writing insert sta...

BETWEEN and NOT BETWEEN Operator

BETWEEN Operator: It is used to fetch values which lies within a range given in BETWEEN operator. Syntax: SELECT columnname(s) FROM tablename WHERE columnname BETWEEN value1 AND value2; Example: SELECT * FROM Employee WHERE ...

Dual Table

Dual table: DUAL table is a dummy table which contains one row and one column and by default it is present in database.It contains a single VARCHAR2(1) column known as DUMMY with a value "X". It can be accessed by all users but the ...

Aggregate Functions

Aggregate Functions: Oracle has many built-in functions which are used to process numbers or strings. They are very useful as we can directly use them , we just have to write the aggregate function name and in braces the column name on which w...

How to use Left Join

Left Join: Left Join is used to join two tables and it return all rows from table 1 and matching rows from table 2. The result is NULL for unmatched rows for table 2. Left Join keyword is used to apply Left Join on two tables. Syntax for Le...

Truncating a table

TRUNCATE TABLE Statement: TRUNCATE Statement is used to remove all records from a table. It is a Data Definition Language (DDL) Statement as it deletes all records and only structure remains. It is similar to delete statement but without where...

Null Values

Null Values: Null values denotes missing data in a table or a database. If a column does not have any NOT NULL constraint then for that column there can be NULL values. By default a column can have NULL values. We cannot use comparison oper...

Sub Queries

Sub Queries: Sub Queries are those query which comes within another query and are written after the WHERE clause.They are also known as Inner query or nested query. It is used to return records that are used in the main query as a conditio...

DELETE Query

DELETE Statement: It is used to delete existing records from a table. It can delete all records from a table if where condition is not given and if where condition is given than it will delete selected records which will meet the condition. ...

Having Clause

Having Clause: The Having clause is used to filter the group result. As we cannot use Where to filter the Group By clause results so Having provide the same functionality as Where. It filter the result fetched by Group By clause. It comes a...

Group By Statement

Group By : It is used to group the result-set by one or more column. It is used in conjunction with aggregate functions provided by Structured Query Language . If order by is used then Group By must come before Order By clause. Syntax1: ...

Crreating Virtual Table using CREATE VIEW statement

CREATING VIEWS: Views are virtual tables which are created from other tables .It is beneficial for those situation when we want to show limited columns to users. It can be created from one or more tables. Syntax: CREATE VIEW viewname AS ...

Pattern Matching Using Like Operator

LIKE Operator: It is used to search for pattern in a table or a database . It is used with where condition. It is similar to REGEXP of MySQL. Syntax: SELECT columnname(s) FROM tablename WHERE columnname LIKE pattern-condition; Examp...

Updating a column value

Updating a column value using Update Statement: UPDATE statement is used to change the value for a column or to change multiple records using a condition. It is a data manipulation language command which are used for managing data. Syntax: ...

To add a primary key using ALTER command

Adding a primary key using ALTER Command: Alter command is generally used to modify table . It can be used to add columns or to remove columns. Using Alter command we can also add or remove a key from a table. Syntax: ALTER TABLE tablena...

To check the structure of a table

DESCRIBE Statement: It is used to view the structure of a table means it shows name and data type of columns. Syntax 1: DESC tablename; Syntax 2: DESCRIBE tablename; Example: DESC Employee; Column Datatype ...

Eliminating Duplicates using Distinct Keyword

DISTINCT Keyword: It is used to fetch different values from a table. It removes duplicate records from the result set and used when there can be multiple duplicate tuples in a table. Syntax: SELECT DISTINCT columnname FROM tablename; ...

ORDER BY Clause

Sorting the result using Order By clause: ORDER BY clause is used to sort the data fetched using select statement either in ascending order or in descending. By default data fetched is sorted in ascending order. Syntax: Select columnname...

Copying Data from one table into another

INSERT INTO SELECT statement: INSERT INTO SELECT statement is used to copy data from existing table into another table. Syntax-1: INSERT INTO tablename2 SELECT * FROM tablename1; Syntax-2 INSERT INTO tablename2 (columnname(s)) ...

Inner Join

Using Inner Join: It selects rows from both tables as long as there is a match between the column on which join is applied. Inner join is used to fetch data from more than one table. Syntax: SELECT columnname(s) FROM tablename1 INNER JO...

DROP Statement

DROP Statement: With the help of drop statement we can easily delete a table or a database and it is a DML(Data Manipulation Language) command. Syntax to drop a table: DROP table tablename; Example: DROP table Employee; It ...

Prepared Statement in Oracle

Prepared statement is used to execute same database statements repeatedly with high performance. For example, if you want to insert multiple employee records you can use same prepared statement again and again. For below illustration it is as...

Selecting the first n rows, Pagination, Rownum & ROW_NUMBER() in Oracle

There will be requirement where you might need to select the first n rows, or do pagination in Oracle. This can be achieved using Rownum. Lets create sample table and data to understand the logic. create table Employees ( id number ...

Fetching Second Highest Salary

If we want to find highest salary we can use max() function simply. Example: SELECT max(salary) FROM Employee; It will return the highest salary from Employee table. But if we need to find the second highest salary then we have...

Fetch limited number of rows from a table using ROWNUM

If you want to Fetch limited numbers of rows from a table in oracle you can use Rownum. Or in other words we can say that It is used to return specific number of rows in a query, we can use ROWNUM in Oracle and LIMIT in MySql. ROWNUM Synta...

how to import .dmp file in oracle database by command prompt

login as dba SYNTAX-- imp userid/password@database_name file='path of dmp file' full=y e.g- imp system/manager@orcl file='c:\dabasefile.dmp' full=y

Resolving physical dataguard lag online using duplicate database

Purpose -- To overcome physical standby lag online using duplicate from active database. The standby lag is huge, “incremental from scn” backup size if huge & taking long time There is no enough disk space on the Primary/standb...

How to check Null/WhiteSpaces/Empty Values in Oracle Query

If you have requirement to filter records where some columnName is either having value Null or have WhiteSpaces or is Empty, you can use following query: SELECT columnName FROM tableName WHERE TRIM(columnName) IS NULL Simil...

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE not printing or anonymous block completed

If your DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE code is not printing any of your logs or if you are just viewing "anonymous block completed". Following will fix the issue. You need to configure a buffer for dbms_output. You can run following command in SQL Promp...

Difference between Delete and Truncate

Following is difference between Delete and Truncate in database: Delete: DELETE is a DML(Data Manipulation Language) Command. DELETE statement is executed using a row lock, each row in the table is locked for deletion. You can add filte...

NVL fuction in Oracle

NVL function helps you convert a null to an actual value. Syntax:- NVL (expr1, expr2) In the syntax: expr1 is the source value or expression that may contain a null expr2 is the target value for converting the null Guidelines for N...

Single Row Function in Oracle (Character Function)

These functions operate on single rows only and return one result per row. There are different types of single-row functions. Character Number Date Conversion Single-row functions are used to manipulate data items. They accept...

Create Ramdisk and take backup in oracle

Steps to create Ramdisk and take backup in oracle Install SoftPerfect Ram disk software(eg installed location is C:\Program Files\SoftPerfect) Create a .bat with following content and run it: REM stop db oradim -SHUTDOWN -SID DB_SID REM ...
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