SQL COMMANDS

1).Select those employees who comm is null. A. select * from emp where comm is null; 2) Select list of managers and corresponding Clerks. A. select a.ename "Manager" , b.ename "Clerk" from emp a, emp b where b.mgr= a.empno; 3) Select list of employee name with their deptno,dname and loc. A. select empno,emp.deptno,dname,loc from emp,dept where emp.deptno= dept.deptno 4) Select 2nd maximum salary from emp table. A. select max(sal) from emp where sal<(select max(sal) from emp); 5) Select 5th maximum salary A. select max(sal) from emp a where 5 =(select count(*) from emp b where a.sal< b.sal); 6) Select Alternate Rows from a table. For Odd Rows: A. select * from emp where mod(ascii(substr(rowid,18)),2)=0 For Even Rows: A. select * from emp where mod(ascii(substr(rowid,18)),2)=1 7) How do I get a random number in Oracle query. A. select dbms_random.random from dual; 8) To Select Least ,Greatest Numbers. A. select least(1,2) from dual select greatest(1,2) from dual select greatest(1.2,2.3) from dual select least(1.2,2.3) from dual 9) To Round a number. A. select ceil(1208917.97802706) from dual; 10) To Truncate a number. A. select floor(1208917.97802706) from dual; 11) Select employees who joined before their manager. A. select a.empno,a.ename from emp a, emp b where a.mgr=b.empno and a.hiredate< b.hiredate; 11) To Select Only Characters from a combination of numbers and characters.
select translate

('RAGHU40020','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') FROM dual;

12) To get those employee whose name ends with 'RD' : select * from emp where ename like '%RD'; 13) To select those , whose last names are a phonetic representation of 'SMYTHE' : select * from emp where soundex(ename)=soundex('SMYTHE') To select those , whose job is phonetic representation of 'SALESMEN' : select * from emp where soundex(job)=soundex('SALESMEN'); 14) To display employee details of workers who joined before their managers : select a.ename from emp a, emp b where a.mgr=b.empno and a.hiredate<b.hiredate; 15) Display the names of employees whose sal is greater than max sal of sales : select * from emp where sal >(select max(sal) from emp , dept where emp.deptno=dept.deptno and dname='SALES'); 16) Display the employee name , who is drawing histet salary : select * from emp where sal=(select max(sal) from emp); 17) TO list the employees in deptno =10 with common jobs in depnto=20 : select a.ename,a.empno,b.ename,b.empno from emp a , emp b where a.job=b.job and a.deptno=10 and b.deptno=20; 18) To list the employees who have both the same job and same salary as SCOTT :

select * from emp where job=(select job from emp where ename='SCOTT') and sal=(select sal from emp where ename='SCOTT') and ename!='SCOTT' 19) List the employees who have the same job as SMITH or Sal < Jones in order by job,sal : select * from emp where job=(select job from emp where ename='SMITH') or sal <(select sal from emp where ename='JONES') order by job,sal 20) Select all employees where ENAME should not begin with A : select * from emp where ename not like 'A%'; 21) Display last three characters of each employee : select ename, substr(ename,-3) from emp; From last three characters of name , display first two characters : select ename, substr(ename,-3,2) from emp; 22) To Display the names of employees whose name have two A's in their name : select * from emp where ename like 'A%A' or ename like '%AA%' or ename like '%A%A%'; 23) List the details of employees whose sal is greater than average sal : select * from emp where sal >(select avg(sal) from emp); 24) Select Minium, Maxium, Average Salaries Department wise : select min(sal),max(sal),avg(sal),deptno from emp group by deptno; 25) Display the number of employees in each department : select count(*),deptno from emp group by deptno; 26) List the average sal for all employees : select avg(sal) from emp; 27) Display all employees whose department is 10 : select * from emp where deptno=10; 28) Display all employees whose sal lie between 2000 and 5000 : select * from emp where deptno=10; 29) Display names of all employees whose name starts with letter 'S' : select * from emp where ename like 'S%'; 30) List names of all employees whose name have more than FIVE letters :
select ename from emp where ename like'%5';

31) Display the names of employees whose name have only four letters : select * from emp where ename like '____'; 32) To select Day from a date : For day : select to_char(hiredate,'dd') from emp; For Week : select to_char(hiredate,'day') from emp; 33) To select Month from a date : For Month in Number : select to_char(hiredate,'mm') from emp For Month in Characters : select to_char(hiredate,'mon') from emp 34) To select Year from a date : select to_char(hiredate,'yy') from emp select to_char(hiredate,'yyyy') from emp 35) Display details of employees who joined in February; select * from emp where to_char(hiredate,'mm')=2; select * from emp where hiredate like '%FEB%'; 36) List the details of employees who joined after 1st December 1980 and before 1st December 1981 : select * from emp where hiredate between to_date('01-12-1980','dd-mm-yyyy') and to_date('01-121981','dd-mm-yyyy') 37) List the details of employees who earn more than 2000 and doesnot enjoy any comm : select * from emp where sal > 2000 and comm is null; 38) List the details of employees who joined before 20th of any month and year except 1981 : select * from emp where to_char(hiredate,'dd') < 20 and to_char(hiredate,'yyyy') != 1981 39) List the deatils of employees who enjoy comm more than 250 : select * from emp where comm >250; 40) List the sum of Sal and Comm (Assume , if comm is null , then comm = 0 ) :

select sal,comm,sal+nvl(comm,0) from emp; (Assume , if comm is null , then comm = 100 ) : select sal,comm,sal+nvl(comm,100) from emp; 41) List the department name and location for emplyoees who earn more than 1500 : select a.ename,b.deptno,dname,loc,sal from emp a,dept b where a.deptno=b.deptno and a.sal >1500 42) Select Last three characters of each employee : select ename,substr(ename,-3,3) from emp; 43) Display the employee id , employee name and their salaries Prefix with Dollar sign in decending order : column sal format $99,990 select sal from emp; 44) Display Job ( Replacing 'SALESMAN' with 'SALESPERSON' ) of employees : select job,decode(job,'SALESMAN','SALESPERSON',job) FROM emp 45) Display deptname , in which no employee has been recruited : select deptno,dname,loc from dept where deptno=(select deptno from dept minus select distinct deptno from emp); 46) In which year maximum employee were recruited : select to_char(hiredate,'yy') from emp having count(*) =(select max(count(*)) from emp group by to_char(hiredate,'yy')) group by to_char(hiredate,'yy') 47) Display departments which has more than 3 employees : select deptno from emp having count(*) >3 group by deptno; 48) List out number of clerks and number of managers : select count(*), job from emp where job='CLERK' or job='MANAGER' group by job; 49) List most experienced employee : select * from emp where hiredate=(select min(hiredate) from emp); 50) List employees who celebrate their birthday in current month : select * from emp where to_char(hiredate,'mm')=to_char(sysdate,'mm'); 51) Display the details of employees completing 20 years of service : select * from emp where months_between(sysdate,hiredate) > 240; Here , 240 months means 20 years 52) Display the details of employees who have joined before BLAKE : select * from emp where hiredate < ( select hiredate from emp where ename='BLAKE'); 53) Display sal of employees with information : Greater , if sal > 1500 Lesser , if sal < 1500 Equal , if sal = 1500 select sal, decode(sign(sal-1500),1,'Greater',-1,'Lesser','Equal') from emp; 54) Display number of employees joined in year 81 : select count(*) from emp where to_char(hiredate,'yy') = 81; 55) Display all employees who joined before 28-sep-81 : select * from emp where to_date(hiredate,'dd-mon-yy') < to_date('28-sep-81','dd-mon-yy'); 56) Display all employees who joined after 09-jun-81 : select * from emp where to_date(hiredate,'dd-mon-yy') > to_date('09-jun-81','dd-mon-yy'); 57) To get a equalent Character for a ASCII value : select chr(67) from dual; 58) To get a ASCII value for a character : select ascii('C') from dual; 59) Display the list who joined between 20-feb-81 and 03-dec-81 : select * from emp where to_date(hiredate,'dd-mon-yy') between to_date('20-feb-81','dd-mon-yy') and to_date('03-dec-81','dd-mon-yy'); 60) Select number of managers : select count(*) from emp where job='MANAGER'; 61) List the number of employees in each dept : select count(*),deptno from emp group by deptno; 62) List the employees , who are earning same salary : select a.ename,b.ename from emp a , emp b where a.deptno=b.deptno and a.sal=b.sal and a.empno!=b.empno; 63) Display the first five rows :

select * from emp where rownum<6; 64) Display details about 5th employee : select * from emp where rownum < 6 minus select * from emp where rownum < 5; 65) List out the details of those employees whose salary is greter than the average salary of their dept :
select ename,sal from emp where ename=(select avg(sal)from emp);

66) List the last five employees from emp : select * from emp minus select * from emp where rownum < 10; 67) Write a query to increment basic salary (salary + comm) by 10% for those employees whose basic salary is less than 1000 and 20% : select sal,decode(sal,sal,(sal+0.1*sal+nvl(comm,0))) from emp where sal <=1000 union select sal,decode(sal,sal,(sal+0.2*sal+nvl(comm,0))) from emp where sal >=1000 68) Display the top 3 salaries from emp table :
select sal from emp where sal>50000;

69) Display experience of each employee : select months_between(sysdate,hiredate) from emp; 70) Display most expereiced employee :
select ename fro emp where hiredate=(select greater hiredate from emp);

71) Display the list of employees , number of employees joined in each year : select count(*), to_char(hiredate,'yyyy') from emp group by to_char(hiredate,'yyyy'); 72) Dislpaly the year in which , maximum employees recruited : select to_char(hiredate,'yy') from emp having count(*)=(select max(count(*)) from emp group by to_char(hiredate,'yy') ) group by to_char(hiredate,'yy'); 73) TRUNC : select trunc(15.7) from dual; output --> 15 select trunc(15.4) from dual; output --> 15 select trunc(15.678,2) from dual; output --> 15.67 select trunc(15.678,1) from dual; output --> 15.6 select trunc(15.678,-1) from dual; output --> 10 select trunc(15.678,-2) from dual; output --> 0 select trunc(115.678,-2) from dual; output --> 100 select trunc(115.678,-3) from dual; output --> 0 74) ROUND : select round(15.7) from dual; output --> 16 select round(15.4) from dual; output --> 15 select round(115.5,-1) from dual; output --> 120 select round(115.5,-2) from dual; output --> 100 75) MOD : select mod(99,4) from dual; output --> 3 76) Operators : select 5/2 from dual; output --> 2.5 select 5*3 from dual; output --> 15 select 5+3 from dual; output --> 8 select 5-3 from dual; output --> 2 77) FLOOR : select floor(3.4) from dual; output --> 3 select floor(3.7) from dual; output --> 3 78) CEIL : select ceil(3.4) from dual; output -->4 select ceil(3.7) from dual; output -->4 79) SUBSTR : select ename,substr(ename,1,3) from emp; select ename,substr(ename,-3,3) from emp; 80 ) TRANSLATE : select translate('RAGHU40020','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ012345789', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') from dual; select translate('RAGHU40020','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ012345789', ' 0123456789') from dual

81) INSTR : It used to search the place of a substring in a string. select instr('RAGHU','G',1) from dual; output --> 3 select instr('RAGHU','GH',1) from dual; output --> 3 select instr('RAGHU','GU',1) from dual; output --> 0 82) Arthmatic Fuction : sin,sinh,cos,cosh,tan,tanh etc.. select sin(A) from dual; NOTE : A should be in Radians select sin(30) from dual; output --> -.98803162 select exp(2) from dual; output --> 7.3890561 select log(100,10) from dual; output --> 0.5 LOG takes two arguments. select ln(10) from dual; output --> 2.30258509 POWER : To raise one number to the power of another , use power. In this function the first argument is raised to the power of second argument. select power(2,3) from dual; output --> 8 select power(-2,3) from dual; output --> -8 select power(2,-3) from dual; output --> 0.125 select power(-2,-3) from dual; output --> -0.125 83) SIGN : Sign returns 1 if its argument is greater than zero, -1 if its argument is lesser than zero , 0 if its argument is equal to zero. select sign(10-2) from dual; output --> 1 select sign(2-10) from dual; output --> -1 select sign(3-3) from dual; output --> 0 84) SQRT : select sqrt(16) from dual; output --> 4 85) LPAD,RPAD : select lpad('Raghu',4) from dual; output --> Ragh select lpad('Raghu',2) from dual; output --> Ra select lpad('Raghu',1) from dual; output --> R select rpad('Raghu',2) from dual; output --> Ra select rpad('Raghu',4) from dual; output --> Ragh

Concepts and Architecture of Database Structures Part- I 1. What are the components of Physical database structure of Oracle Database? ORACLE database is comprised of three types of files. One or more Data files, two are more Redo Log files, and one or more Control files. 2. What are the components of Logical database structure of ORACLE database? Tablespaces and the Database's Schema Objects 3. What is a Tablespace? A database is divided into Logical Storage Unit called tablespaces. A tablespace is used to grouped related logical structures together. 4. What is SYSTEM tablespace and when is it Created? Every ORACLE database contains a tablespace named SYSTEM, which is automatically created when the database is created. The SYSTEM tablespace always contains the data dictionary tables for the entire database. 5. Explain the relationship among Database, Tablespace and Data file. Each databases logically divided into one or more tablespaces one or more data files are explicitly created for each tablespace. 6. What is schema? A schema is collection of database objects of a User. 7. What are Schema Objects? Schema objects are the logical structures that directly refer to the database's data. Schema objects include tables, views, sequences, synonyms, indexes, clusters, database triggers, procedures, functions packages and database links. 8. Can objects of the same Schema reside in different tablespaces? Yes. 9. Can a Tablespace hold objects from different Schemes? Yes. 10. What is Table? A table is the basic unit of data storage in an ORACLE database. The tables of a database hold all of the user accessible data. Table data is stored in rows and columns.

11. What is a View? A view is a virtual table. Every view has a Query attached to it. (The Query is a SELECT statement that identifies the columns and rows of the table(s) the view uses.) 12. Does View contain Data? Views do not contain or store data. 13. Can a View based on another View? Yes. 14. What are the advantages of Views? Provide an additional level of table security, by restricting access to a predetermined set of rows and columns of a table. Hide data complexity. Simplify commands for the user present the data in a different perspective from that of the base table. Store complex queries. 15. What is a Sequence?

A sequence generates a serial list of unique numbers for numerical columns of a database's tables. 16. What is a Synonym? A synonym is an alias for a table, view, sequence or program unit. 17. What are the types of Synonyms? There are two types of Synonyms Private and Public. 18. What is a Private Synonyms? A Private Synonyms can be accessed only by the owner. 19. What is a Public Synonym? Public synonyms can be accessed by any user on the database. 20. What are synonyms used for? Synonyms are used to: Mask the real name and owner of an object. Provide public access to an object Provide location transparency for tables, views or program units of a remote database. Simplify the SQL statements for database users.

21. What is an Index? An Index is an optional structure associated with a table to have direct access to rows, which can be created to increase the performance of data retrieval. Index can be created on one or more columns of a table. 22. How is Indexes Update? Indexes are automatically maintained and used by ORACLE. Changes to table automatically incorporated into all relevant indexes. data are

23. What are Clusters? Clusters are groups of one or more tables physically stores together to share common columns and are often used together. 24. What is cluster Key? The related columns of the tables in a cluster are called the Cluster Key. 25. What is Index Cluster? A Cluster with an index on the Cluster Key 26. What is Hash Cluster? A row is stored in a hash cluster based on the result of applying a hash function to the row's cluster key value. All rows with the same hash key value are stores together on disk. 27. When can Hash Cluster used? Hash clusters are better choice when a table is often queried with equality queries. For such queries the specified cluster key value is hashed. The resulting hash key value points directly to the area on disk that stores the specified rows. 28. What is Database Link? A database link is a named object that describes a "path" from one database to another. 29. What are the types of Database Links? Private Database Link, Public Database Link & Network Database Link.

30. What is Private Database Link? Private database link is created on behalf of a specific user. A private database link can be used only when the owner of the link specifies a global object name in a SQL statement or in the definition of the owner's views or procedures.

31. What is a Data File? Every ORACLE database has one or more physical data files. A database's data files contain all the database data. The data of logical database structures such as tables and indexes is physically stored in the data files allocated for a database. 32. What are the Characteristics of Data Files? A data file can be associated with only one database. Once created a data file can't change size. One or more data files form a logical unit of database storage called a tablespace. 33. What is a Redo Log? The set of Redo Log files for a database is collectively known as the database's redo log. 34. What is the function of Redo Log? The Primary function of the redo log is to record all changes made to data. 35. What is the use of Redo Log Information? The Information in a redo log file is used only to recover the database from a system or media failure prevents database data from being written to a database's data files. 36. What does a Control file Contain? A Control file records the physical structure of the database. It contains the following information. Database Name Names and locations of a database's files and redo log files. Time stamp of database creation 37. What is the use of Control File? When an instance of an ORACLE database is started, its control file is used to identify the database and redo log files that must be opened for database operation to proceed. It is also used in database recovery. 38. What is a Data Dictionary? The data dictionary of an ORACLE database is a set of tables and views that are used as a readonly reference about the database. It stores information about both the logical and physical structure of the database, the valid users of an ORACLE database, integrity constraints defined for tables in the database and space allocated for a schema object and how much of it is being used. 39. What is an Integrity Constrains? An integrity constraint is a declarative way to define a business rule for a column of a table. 40. Can an Integrity Constraint be enforced on a table if some existing table data does not satisfy the constraint? No.

41. Describe the different type of Integrity Constraints supported by ORACLE? NOT NULL Constraint - Disallows Nulls in a table's column. UNIQUE Constraint - Disallows duplicate values in a column or set of columns.

 PRIMARY KEY Constraint - Disallows duplicate values and Nulls in a column or set of columns. FOREIGN KEY Constrain - Require each value in a column or set of columns match a value in a related table's UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY. CHECK Constraint - Disallows values that do not satisfy the logical expression of the constraint. 42. What is difference between UNIQUE constraint and PRIMARY KEY constraint? A column defined as UNIQUE can contain Nulls while a column defined as PRIMARY KEY can't contain Nulls. 43. Describe Referential Integrity? A rule defined on a column (or set of columns) in one table that allows the insert or update of a row only if the value for the column or set of columns (the dependent value) matches a value in a column of a related table (the referenced value). It also specifies the type of data manipulation allowed on referenced data and the action to be performed on dependent data as a result of any action on referenced data. 44. What is Public Database Link? Public database link is created for the special user group PUBLIC. A public database link can be used when any user in the associated database specifies a global object name in a SQL statement or object definition. 45. What is Network Database link? Network database link is created and managed by a network domain service. A network database link can be used when any user of any database in the network specifies a global object name in a SQL statement or object definition. 46. What is Data Block? ORACLE database's data is stored in data blocks. One data block corresponds to a specific number of bytes of physical database space on disk. 47. What is Row Chaining? In Circumstances, all of the data for a row in a table may not be able to fit in the same data block. When this occurs, the data for the row is stored in a chain of data block (one or more) reserved for that segment. 48. What is an Extent? An Extent is a specific number of contiguous data blocks, obtained in a single allocation, and used to store a specific type of information. 49. What is a Segment? A segment is a set of extents allocated for a certain logical structure. 50. What is the different type of Segments? Data Segment, Index Segment, Rollback Segment and Temporary Segment

51. What is a Data Segment? Each Non-clustered table has a data segment. All of the table's data is stored in the extents of its data segment. Each cluster has a data segment. The data of every table in the cluster is stored in the cluster's data segment. 52. What is an Index Segment?

Each Index has an Index segment that stores all of its data. 53. What is Rollback Segment? A Database contains one or more Rollback Segments to temporarily store "undo" information. 54. What are the uses of Rollback Segment? Rollback Segments are used: To generate read-consistent database information during database recovery to rollback uncommitted transactions for users. 55. What is a Temporary Segment? Temporary segments are created by ORACLE when a SQL statement needs a temporary work area to complete execution. When the statement finishes execution, the temporary segment extents are released to the system for future use. 56. What are the Referential actions supported by FOREIGN KEY integrity constraint? UPDATE and DELETE Restrict - A referential integrity rule that disallows the update or deletion of referenced data. DELETE Cascade - When a referenced row is deleted all associated dependent rows are deleted. 57. What is self-referential integrity constraint? If a foreign key reference a parent key of the same table is called self-referential integrity constraint. 58. What are the Limitations of a CHECK Constraint? The condition must be a Boolean expression evaluated using the values in the row being inserted or updated and can't contain sub queries, sequence, the SYSDATE,UID,USER or USERENV SQL functions, or the pseudo columns LEVEL or ROWNUM. 59. What is the maximum number of CHECK constraints that can be defined on a column? No Limit.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE: 1. What constitute an ORACLE Instance? SGA and ORACLE background processes constitute an ORACLE instance. (Or) Combination of memory structure and background process 2. What is SGA? The System Global Area (SGA) is a shared memory region allocated by ORACLE that contains data and control information for one ORACLE instance. 3. What are the components of SGA? Database buffers, Redo Log Buffer the Shared Pool and Cursors.

4. What do Database Buffers contain? Database buffers store the most recently used blocks of database data. It can also contain modified data that has not yet been permanently written to disk. 5. What do Redo Log Buffers contain? Redo Log Buffer stores redo entries a log of changes made to the database. 6. What is Shared Pool?

Shared Pool is a portion of the SGA that contains shared memory constructs such as shared SQL areas. 7. What is Shared SQL Area? A Shared SQL area is required to process every unique SQL statement submitted to a database and contains information such as the parse tree and execution plan for the corresponding statement. 8. What is Cursor? A Cursor is a handle (a name or pointer) for the memory associated with a specific statement. 9. What is PGA? Program Global Area (PGA) is a memory buffer that contains data and control information for a server process. 10. What is User Process? A user process is created and maintained to execute the software code of an application program. It is a shadow process created automatically to facilitate communication between the user and the server process.

Concepts and Architecture of Database Structures Part- 2 1. What is Server Process? Server Process handles requests from connected user process. A server process is in charge of communicating with the user process and interacting with ORACLE carry out requests of the associated user process. 2. What are the two types of Server Configurations? Dedicated Server Configuration and Multi-threaded Server Configuration 3. What is Dedicated Server Configuration? In a Dedicated Server Configuration a Server Process handles requests for a Single User Process. 4. What is a Multi-threaded Server Configuration? In a Multi-threaded Server Configuration many user processes share a group of server process. 5. What is a Parallel Server option in ORACLE? A configuration for loosely coupled systems where multiple instances share a single physical database is called Parallel Server. 6. Name the ORACLE Background Process? DBWR - Database Writer LGWR - Log Writer CKPT - Check Point SMON - System Monitor PMON - Process Monitor ARCH - Archiver RECO - Recover Dnnn - Dispatcher, and LCKn - Lock Snnn - Server. 7. What Does DBWR do? Database writer writes modified blocks from the database buffer cache to the data files.

8. When Does DBWR write to the database? DBWR writes when more data needs to be read into the SGA and too few database buffers are free. The least recently used data is written to the data files first. DBWR also writes when Checkpoint occurs. 9. What does LGWR do? Log Writer (LGWR) writes redo log entries generated in the redo log buffer of the SGA to on-line Redo Log File. 10. When does LGWR write to the database? LGWR writes redo log entries into an on-line redo log file when transactions commit and the log buffer files are full.

11. What is the function of checkpoint (CKPT)? The Checkpoint (CKPT) process is responsible for signalling DBWR at checkpoints and updating all the data files and control files of the database. 12. What are the functions of SMON? System Monitor (SMON) performs instance recovery at instance start-up. In a multiple instance system (one that uses the Parallel Server), SMON of one instance can also perform instance recovery for other instance that have failed SMON also cleans up temporary segments that are no longer in use and recovers dead transactions skipped during crash and instance recovery because of file-read or off-line errors. These transactions are eventually recovered by SMON when the tablespace or file is brought back on-line SMON also coalesces free extents within the database to make free space contiguous and easier to allocate. 13. What are functions of PMON? Process Monitor (PMON) performs process recovery when a user process fails PMON is responsible for cleaning up the cache and Freeing resources that the process was using PMON also checks on dispatcher and server processes and restarts them if they have failed. 14. What is the function of ARCH? Archiver (ARCH) copies the on-line redo log files to archival storage when they are full. ARCH is active only when a database's redo log is used in ARCHIVELOG mode. 15. What is function of RECO? Recover (RECO) is used to resolve distributed transactions that are pending due to a network or system failure in a distributed database. At timed intervals, the local RECO attempts to connect to remote databases and automatically complete the commit or rollback of the local portion of any pending distributed transactions. 16. What is the function of Dispatcher (Dnnn)? Dispatcher (Dnnn) process is responsible for routing requests from connected user processes to available shared server processes and returning the responses back to the appropriate user processes. 17. How many Dispatcher Processes are created? At least one Dispatcher process is created for every communication protocol in use. 18. What is the function of Lock (LCKn) Process? Lock (LCKn) is used for inter-instance locking when the ORACLE Parallel Server option is used. 19. What is the maximum number of Lock Processes used? Though a single LCK process is sufficient for most Parallel Server systems Up to Ten Locks (LCK0, LCK9) are used for inter-instance locking.

DATA ACCESS Archiver (ARCH) copies the on-line redo log files to archival storage when they are full. ARCH is active only when a database's redo log is used in ARCHIVELOG mode. 1. What is function of RECO? Recover (RECO) is used to resolve distributed transactions that are pending due to a network or system failure in a distributed database. At timed intervals, the local RECO attempts to connect to remote databases and automatically complete the commit or rollback of the local portion of any pending distributed transactions. 2. What is the function of Dispatcher (Dnnn)? Dispatcher (Dnnn) process is responsible for routing requests from connected user processes to available shared server processes and returning the responses back to the appropriate user processes. 3. How many Dispatcher Processes are created? At least one Dispatcher process is created for every communication protocol in use. 4. What is the function of Lock (LCKn) Process? Lock (LCKn) is used for inter-instance locking when the ORACLE Parallel Server option is used. 5. What is the maximum number of Lock Processes used? Though a single LCK process is sufficient for most Parallel Server systems. Up to Ten Locks (LCK0, LCK9) are used for inter-instance locking.

DATA MANIPULATION 1. When does a Transaction end? When it is committed or Roll backed. 2. What does COMMIT do? COMMIT makes permanent the changes resulting from all SQL statements in the transaction. The changes made by the SQL statements of a transaction become visible to other user sessions transactions that start only after transaction is committed. 3. What does ROLLBACK do? ROLLBACK retracts any of the changes resulting from the SQL statements in the transaction. 4. What is SAVE POINT? For long transactions that contain many SQL statements, intermediate markers or save points can be declared which can be used to divide a transaction into smaller parts. This allows the option of later rolling back all work performed from the current point in the transaction to a declared save point within the transaction. 5. What is Read-Only Transaction? A Read-Only transaction ensures that the results of each query executed in the transaction are consistent with respect to the same point in time. 6. What is the function of Optimizer? The goal of the optimizer is to choose the most efficient way to execute a SQL statement. 7. What is Execution Plan?

The combination of the steps the optimizer chooses to execute a statement is called an execution plan. 8. What are the different approaches used by Optimizer in choosing an execution plan? Rule-based and Cost-based 9. What are the factors that affect OPTIMIZER in choosing an Optimization approach? The OPTIMIZER_MODE initialization parameter Statistics in the Data Dictionary the OPTIMIZER_GOAL parameter of the ALTER SESSION command hints in the statement. 10. What are the values that can be specified for OPTIMIZER MODE Parameter? COST and RULE

11. Will the Optimizer always use COST-based approach if OPTIMIZER_MODE is set to "Cost'? Presence of statistics in the data dictionary for at least one of the tables accessed by the SQL statements is necessary for the OPTIMIZER to use COST-based approach. Otherwise OPTIMIZER chooses RULE-based approach. 12. What is the effect of setting the value of OPTIMIZER_MODE to RULE? This value causes the optimizer to choose the rule based approach for all SQL statements issued to the instance regardless of the presence of statistics. 13. What are the values that can be specified for OPTIMIZER_GOAL parameter of the ALTER SESSION Command? CHOOSE, ALL_ROWS, FIRST_ROWS and RULE. 14. What is the effect of setting the value "CHOOSE" for OPTIMIZER_GOAL, parameter of the ALTER SESSION Command? The Optimizer chooses Cost based approach and optimizes with the goal of best throughput if statistics for at least one of the tables accessed by the SQL statement exist in the data dictionary. Otherwise the OPTIMIZER chooses RULE based approach. 15. What is the effect of setting the value "ALL_ROWS for OPTIMIZER_GOAL parameter of the ALTER SESSION command? This value causes the optimizer to the cost-based approach for all SQL statements in the session regardless of the presence of statistics and to optimize with a goal of best throughput. 16. What is the effect of setting the value FIRST_ROWS for OPTIMIZER_GOAL parameter of the ALTER SESSION command? This value causes the optimizer to use the cost-based approach for all SQL statements in the session regardless of the presence of statistics and to optimize with a goal of best response time. 17. What is the effect of setting the 'RULE' for OPTIMIER_GOAL parameter of the ALTER SESSION Command? This value causes the optimizer to choose the rule-based approach for all SQL statements in a session regardless of the presence of statistics. 18. What is RULE-based approach to optimization? Choosing an executing plan based on the access paths available and the ranks of these access paths. 19. What is COST-based approach to optimization? Considering available access paths and determining the most efficient execution plan based on statistics in the data dictionary for the tables accessed by the statement and their associated clusters and indexes.

PROGRAMMATIC CONSTRUCTS 1. What are the different types of PL/SQL program units that can be defined and stored in ORACLE database? Procedures and Functions, Packages and Database Triggers 2. What is a Procedure? A Procedure consist of a set of SQL and PL/SQL statements that are grouped together as a unit to solve a specific problem or perform a set of related tasks. 3. What is difference between Procedures and Functions? A Function returns a value to the caller where as a Procedure does not. 4. What is a Package? A Package is a collection of related procedures, functions, variables and other package constructs together as a unit in the database. 5. What are the advantages of having a Package? Increased functionality (for example,global package variables can be declared and used by any proecdure in the package) and performance (for example all objects of the package are parsed compiled, and loaded into memory once) 6. What is Database Trigger? A Database Trigger is procedure (set of SQL and PL/SQL statements) that is automatically executed as a result of an insert in,update to, or delete from a table. 7. What are the uses of Database Trigger? Database triggers can be used to automatic data generation, audit data modifications, enforce complex Integrity constraints, and customize complex security authorizations. 8. What are the differences between Database Trigger and Integrity constraints? A declarative integrity constraint is a statement about the database that is always true. A constraint applies to existing data in the table and any statement that manipulates the table. A trigger does not apply to data loaded before the definition of the trigger; therefore, it does not guarantee all data in a table conforms to the rules established by an associated trigger. A trigger can be used to enforce transitional constraints where as a declarative integrity constraint cannot be used.

DATABASE SECURITY 1. What are Roles? Roles are named groups of related privileges that are granted to users or other roles. 2. What is the use of Roles? REDUCED GRANTING OF PRIVILEGES - Rather than explicitly granting the same set of privileges to many users a database administrator can grant the privileges for a group of related users granted to a role and then grant only the role to each member of the group.

DYNAMIC PRIVILEGE MANAGEMENT - When the privileges of a group must change, only the privileges of the role need to be modified. The security domains of all users granted the group's role automatically reflect the changes made to the role. SELECTIVE AVAILABILITY OF PRIVILEGES - The roles granted to a user can be selectively enable (available for use) or disabled (not available for use). This allows specific control of a user's privileges in any given situation. APPLICATION AWARENESS - A database application can be designed to automatically enable and disable selective roles when a user attempts to use the application.

Concepts and Architecture of Database Structures Part - 3 1. How to prevent unauthorized use of privileges granted to a Role? By creating a Role with a password. 2. What is default tablespace? The Tablespace to contain schema objects created without specifying a tablespace name. 3. What is Tablespace Quota? The collective amount of disk space available to the objects in a schema on a particular tablespace. 4. What is a profile? Each database user is assigned a Profile that specifies limitations on various system resources available to the user. 5. What are the system resources that can be controlled through Profile? The number of concurrent sessions the user can establish the CPU processing time available to the user's session the CPU processing time available to a single call to ORACLE made by a SQL statement the amount of logical I/O available to the user's session the amount of logical I/O available to a single call to ORACLE made by a SQL statement the allowed amount of idle time for the user's session the allowed amount of connect time for the user's session. 6. What is Auditing? Monitoring of user access to aid in the investigation of database use. 7. What are the different Levels of Auditing? Statement Auditing, Privilege Auditing and Object Auditing. 8. What is Statement Auditing? Statement auditing is the auditing of the powerful system privileges without regard to specifically named objects. 9. What is Privilege Auditing? Privilege auditing is the auditing of the use of powerful system privileges without regard to specifically named objects. 10. What is Object Auditing? Object auditing is the auditing of accesses to specific schema objects without regard to user.

DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTED DATABASES

1. What is Distributed database? A distributed database is a network of databases managed by multiple database servers that appears to a user as single logical database. The data of all databases in the distributed database can be simultaneously accessed and modified. 2. What is Two-Phase Commit? Two-phase commit is mechanism that guarantees a distributed transaction either commits on all involved nodes or rolls back on all involved nodes to maintain data consistency across the global distributed database. It has two phases, a Prepare Phase and a Commit Phase. 3. Describe two phases of Two-phase commit? Prepare phase - The global coordinator (initiating node) ask a participants to prepare promise to commit or rollback the transaction, even if there is a failure) (to

Commit - Phase - If all participants respond to the coordinator that they are prepared, the coordinator asks all nodes to commit the transaction, if all participants cannot prepare, and the coordinator asks all nodes to roll back the transaction. 4. What is the mechanism provided by ORACLE for table replication? Snapshots and SNAPSHOT LOGs 5. What is a SNAPSHOT? Snapshots are read-only copies of a master table located on a remote node which is periodically refreshed to reflect changes made to the master table. 6. What is a SNAPSHOT LOG? A snapshot log is a table in the master database that is associated with the master table. ORACLE uses a snapshot log to track the rows that have been updated in the master table. Snapshot logs are used in updating the snapshots based on the master table. 7. What is a SQL * NET? SQL *NET is Oracles mechanism for interfacing with the communication protocols used by the networks that facilitate distributed processing and distributed databases. It is used in Clint-Server and Server-Server communications.

DATABASE OPERATION, BACKUP AND RECOVERY 1. What are the steps involved in Database Startup? Start an instance, Mount the Database and Open the Database. 2. What are the steps involved in Database Shutdown? Close the Database; Dismount the Database and Shutdown the Instance. 3. What is Restricted Mode of Instance Startup? An instance can be started in (or later altered to be in) restricted mode so that when the database is open connections are limited only to those whose user accounts have been granted the RESTRICTED SESSION system privilege. 4. What are the different modes of mounting a Database with the Parallel Server?

Exclusive Mode If the first instance that mounts a database does so in exclusive mode, only that Instance can mount the database. Parallel Mode If the first instance that mounts a database is started in parallel mode, other instances that are started in parallel mode can also mount the database. 5. What is full backup? A full backup is an operating system backup of all data files, on-line redo log files and control file that constitute ORACLE database and the parameter. 6. Can Full Backup be performed when the database is open? No. 7. What is Partial Backup? A Partial Backup is any operating system backup short of a full backup, taken while the database is open or shut down. 8. What is On-line RedoLog? The On-line Redo Log is a set of tow or more on-line redo files that record all committed changes made to the database. Whenever a transaction is committed, the corresponding redo entries temporarily stores in redo log buffers of the SGA are written to an on-line redo log file by the background process LGWR. The on-line redo log files are used in cyclical fashion. 9. What is Mirrored on-line Redo Log? A mirrored on-line redo log consists of copies of on-line redo log files physically located on separate disks; changes made to one member of the group are made to all members. 10. What is Archived Redo Log? Archived Redo Log consists of Redo Log files that have archived before being reused. 11. What are the advantages of operating a database in ARCHIVELOG mode over operating it in NO ARCHIVELOG mode? Complete database recovery from disk failure is possible only in ARCHIVELOG mode. Online database backup is possible only in ARCHIVELOG mode. 12. What is Log Switch? The point at which ORACLE ends writing to one online redo log file and begins writing to another is called a log switch. 13. What are the steps involved in Instance Recovery? Rolling forward to recover data that has not been recorded in data files yet has been recorded in the on-line redo log, including the contents of rollback segments. Rolling back transactions that have been explicitly rolled back or have not been committed as indicated by the rollback segments regenerated in step a. Releasing any resources (locks) held by transactions in process at the time of the failure. Resolving any pending distributed transactions undergoing a two-phase commit at the time of the instance failure.

DATABASE ADMINISTRATION Introduction to DBA

1. What is a Database instance? Explain A database instance (Server) is a set of memory structure and background processes that access a set of database files. The process can be shared by all users. he memory structure that are used to store most queried data from database. This helps up to improve database performance by decreasing the amount of I/O performed against data file. 2. What is Parallel Server? Multiple instances accessing the same database (Only in Multi-CPU environments) 3. What is a Schema? The set of objects owned by user account is called the schema. 4. What is an Index? How it is implemented in Oracle Database? An index is a database structure used by the server to have direct access of a row in a table. An index is automatically created when a unique of primary key constraint clause is specified in create table comman (Ver 7.0) 5. What are clusters? Group of tables physically stored together because they share common columns and are often used together is called Cluster. 6. What is a cluster Key? The related columns of the tables are called the cluster key. The cluster key is indexed using a cluster index and its value is stored only once for multiple tables in the cluster. 7. What is the basic element of Base configuration of an oracle Database? It consists of One or more data files. One or more control files. Two or more redo log files. The Database contains Multiple users/schemas One or more rollback segments One or more tablespaces Data dictionary tables User objects (table,indexes,views etc.,) The server that access the database consists of SGA (Database buffer, Dictionary Cache Buffers, Redo log buffers, Shared SQL pool) SMON (System MONito) PMON (Process MONitor) LGWR (LoG Write) DBWR (Data Base Write) ARCH (ARCHiver) CKPT (Check Point) RECO Dispatcher User Process with associated PGS 8. What is a deadlock? Explain. Two processes wating to update the rows of a table which are locked by the other process then deadlock arises.

In a database environment this will often happen because of not issuing proper row lock commands. Poor design of front-end application may cause this situation and the performance of server will reduce drastically. These locks will be released automatically when a commit/rollback operation performed or any one of these processes being killed externally.

MEMORY MANAGEMENT 1. What is SGA? How it is different from Ver 6.0 and Ver 7.0? The System Global Area in a Oracle database is the area in memory to facilitates the transfer of information between users. It holds the most recently requested structural information between users. It holds the most recently requested structural information about the database. The structure is Database buffers, Dictionary cache, and Redo Log Buffer and Shared SQL pool (ver. 7.0 only) area. 2. What is a Shared SQL pool? The data dictionary cache is stored in an area in SGA called the Shared SQL Pool. This will allow sharing of parsed SQL statements among concurrent users. 3. What is mean by Program Global Area (PGA)? It is area in memory that is used by a Single Oracle User Process. 4. What is a data segment? Data segment are the physical areas within a database block in which the data associated with tables and clusters are stored. 5. What are the factors causing the reparsing of SQL statements in SGA? Due to insufficient Shared SQL pool size. Monitor the ratio of the reloads takes place while executing SQL statements. If the ratio is greater than 1 then increase the SHARED_POOL_SIZE. LOGICAL & PHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE OF DATABASE. 6. What is Database Buffers? Database buffers are cache in the SGA used to hold the data blocks that are read from the data segments in the database such as tables, indexes and clusters DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS parameter in INIT.ORA decides the size. 7. What is dictionary cache? Dictionary cache is information about the databse objects stored in a data dictionary table. 8. What is meant by recursive hints? Number of times processes repeatedly query the dictionary table is called recursive hints. It is due to the data dictionary cache is too small. By increasing the SHARED_POOL_SIZE parameter we can optimize the size of Data Dictionary Cache. 9. What is meant by redo log buffer? Change made to entries is written to the on-line redo log files. So that they can be used in roll forward operations during database recoveries. Before writing them into the redo log files, they will first brought to redo log buffers in SGA and LGWR will write into files frequently. LOG_BUFFER parameter will decide the size. 10. How will you swap objects into a different table space for an existing database?

Export the user Perform import using the command imp system/manager newrite.sql. This will create all definitions into newfile.sql. Drop necessary objects. Run the script newfile.sql after altering the tablespaces. Import from the backup for the necessary objects. file=export.dmp indexfile=

Concepts and Architecture of Database Structures Part 4 1. List the Optional Flexible Architecture (OFA) of Oracle database? Or how can we organise the tablespaces in Oracle database to have maximum performance? SYSTEM - Data dictionary tables. DATA - Standard operational tables. DATA2- Static tables used for standard operations INDEXES - Indexes for Standard operational tables. INDEXES1 - Indexes of static tables used for standard operations. TOOLS - Tools table. TOOLS1 - Indexes for tools table. RBS - Standard Operations Rollback Segments, RBS1, RBS2 - Additional/Special Rollback segments. TEMP - Temporary purpose tablespace TEMP_USER - Temporary tablespace for users. USERS - User tablespace. 2. How will you force database to use particular rollback segment? SET TRANSACTION USE ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs_name. 3. What is meant by free extent? A free extent is a collection of continuous free blocks in tablespace. When a segment is dropped its extents are reallocated and are marked as free. 4. How free extents are managed in Ver. 6.0 and Ver. 7.0? Free extents cannot be merged together in Ver. 6.0.Free extents are periodically coalesces with the neighboring free extent in Ver. 7.0 5. Which parameter in Storage clause will reduce no. of rows per block? PCTFREE parameter Row size also reduces no of rows per block. 6. What is the significance of having storage clause? We can plan the storage for a table as how much initial extents are required, how much can be extended next, how much % should leave free for managing row updations etc. 7. How does Space allocation table place within a block? Each block contains entries as follows Fixied block header Variable block header Row Header,row date (multiple rows may exists) PCTEREE (% of free space for row updation in future) 8. What is the role of PCTFREE parameter is Storage clause?

This is used to reserve certain amount of space in a block for expansion of rows. 9. What is the OPTIMAL parameter? It is used to set the optimal length of a rollback segment. 10. What is the functionality of SYSTEM table space? To manage the database level transactions such as modifications of the data dictionary table that record information about the free space usage.

11. How will you create multiple rollback segments in a database? Create a database which implicitly creates a SYSTEM Rollback Segment in a SYSTEM tablespace. 12. Create a Second Rollback Segment name R0 in the SYSTEM tablespace. Make new rollback segment available (After shutdown, modify init.ora file and Start database) Create other tablespaces (RBS) for rollback segments. Deactivate Rollback Segment R0 and activate the newly created rollback segments. 13. How the space utilization takes place within rollback segments? It will try to fit the transaction in a cyclic fashion to all existing extents. Once it found an extent is in use then it forced to acquire a new extent (No. of extents is based on the optimal size) 14. Why query fails sometimes? Rollback segment dynamically extent to handle larger transactions entry loads. A single transaction may wipeout all available free space in the Rollback Segment Tablespace. This prevents other user using Rollback segments. 15. How will you monitor the space allocation? By querying DBA_SEGMENT table/view. 16. How will you monitor rollback segment status? Querying the DBA_ROLLBACK_SEGS view IN USE - Rollback Segment is on-line. AVAILABLE - Rollback Segment available but not on-line. OFF-LINE - Rollback Segment off-line INVALID - Rollback Segment Dropped. NEEDS RECOVERY - Contains data but need recovery or corrupted. PARTLY AVAILABLE - Contains data from an unresolved transaction involving a distributed database. List the sequence of events when a large transaction that exceeds beyond its optimal value when an entry wraps and causes the rollback segment to expand into another extend. Transaction Begins. An entry is made in the RES header for new transactions entry. Transaction acquires blocks in an extent of RBS The entry attempts to wrap into second extent. None is available, so that the RBS must extent. The RBS checks to see if it is part of its OPTIMAL size. RBS chooses its oldest inactive segment. Oldest inactive segment is eliminated. RBS extents

The Data dictionary table for space management is updated. Transaction Completes. 17. How can we plan storage for very large tables? Limit the number of extents in the table Separate Table from its indexes. Allocate sufficient temporary storage. 18. How will you estimate the space required by non-clustered tables? Calculate the total header size Calculate the available dataspace per data block Calculate the combined column lengths of the average row Calculate the total average row size. Calculate the average number rows that can fit in a block Calculate the number of blocks and bytes required for the table. After arriving the calculation, add 10 % additional space to calculate the initial extent size for a working table.
19. Is possible to use raw devices as data files and what are the advantages over file. System files?

Yes. The advantages over file system files I/O will be improved because Oracle is bye-passing the kernel which writing into disk. Disk Corruption will be very less. 20. What is a Control file? Database's overall physical architecture is maintained in a file called control file. It will be used to maintain internal consistency and guide recovery operations. Multiple copies of control files are advisable.

21. How to implement the multiple control files for an existing database? Shutdown the databse Copy one of the existing control file to new location Edit Config ora file by adding new control file.name Restart the database. 22. What is meant by Redo Log file mirrorring ? How it can be achieved? Process of having a copy of redo log files is called mirroring. This can be achieved by creating group of log files together, so that LGWR will automatically writes them to all the members of the current on-line redo log group. If any one group fails then database automatically switch over to next group. It degrades performance. 23. What is advantage of having disk shadowing/ Mirroring? Shadow set of disks save as a backup in the event of disk failure. In most Operating System if any disk failure occurs it automatically switchover to place of failed disk. Improved performance because most OS support volume shadowing can direct file I/O request to use the shadow set of files instead of the main set of files. This reduces I/O load on the main set of disks. 24. What is use of Rollback Segments in Database? They allow the database to maintain read consistency between multiple transactions.

25. What is a Rollback segment entry? It is the set of before image data blocks that contain rows that are modified by a transaction. Each Rollback Segment entry must be completed within one rollback segment. A single rollback segment can have multiple rollback segment entries. 26. What is hit ratio? It is a measure of well the data cache buffer is handling requests for data. Hit Ratio = (Logical Reads - Physical Reads - Hits Misses)/ Logical Reads. When will be a segment released? When Segment is dropped. When Shrink (RBS only) When truncated (TRUNCATE used with drop storage option) 27. What are disadvanteges of having raw devices? We should depend on export/import utility for backup/recovery (fully reliable) The tar command cannot be used for physical file backup, instead we can use dd command which is less flexible and has limited recoveries. 28. List the factors that can affect the accuracy of the estimations? The space used transaction entries and deleted records do not become free immediately after completion due to delayed cleanout. Trailing nulls and length bytes are not stored. Inserts of, updates to and deletes of rows as well as columns larger than a single datablock, can cause fragmentation a chained row pieces.

DATABASE SECURITY & ADMINISTRATION 1. What is user Account in Oracle database? A user account is not a physical structure in Database but it is having important relationship to the objects in the database and will be having certain privileges. 2. How will you enforce security using stored procedures? Don't grant user access directly to tables within the application. Instead grant the ability to access the procedures that access the tables. When procedure executed it will execute the privilege of procedures owner. Users cannot access tables except via the procedure. 3. What is the dictionary tables used to monitor a database spaces? DBA_FREE_SPACE DBA_SEGMENTS DBA_DATA_FILES. 4. What are the responsibilities of a Database Administrator? Installing and upgrading the Oracle Server and application tools.

Allocating system storage and planning future storage requirements for the database system. Managing primary database structures (tablespaces) Managing primary objects (table,views,indexes) Enrolling users and maintaining system security. Ensuring compliance with Oralce license agreement Controlling and monitoring user access to the database. Monitoring and optimising the performance of the database. Planning for backup and recovery of database information. Maintain archived data on tape Backing up and restoring the database. Contacting Oracle Corporation for technical support. 5. What are the roles and user accounts created automatically with the database? DBA - role contains all database system privileges. SYS user account - The DBA role will be assigned to this account. All of the basetables and views for the database's dictionary are store in this schema and are manipulated only by ORACLE. SYSTEM user account - It has all the system privileges for the database and additional tables and views that display administrative information and internal tables and views used by oracle tools are created using this username. 6. What are the database administrators utilities available? SQL * DBA - This allows DBA to monitor and control an ORACLE database. SQL * Loader - It loads data from standard operating system files (Flat files) into ORACLE database tables. Export (EXP) and Import (imp) utilities allow you to move existing data in ORACLE format to and from ORACLE database. 7. What are the minimum parameters should exist in the parameter file (init.ora)? DB NAME - Must set to a text string of no more than 8 characters and it will be stored inside the datafiles, redo log files and control files and control file while database creation. DB_DOMAIN - It is string that specifies the network domain where the database is created. The global database name is identified by setting these parameters (DB_NAME & DB_DOMAIN) CONTORL FILES - List of control filenames of the database. If name is not mentioned then default name will be used. DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS - To determine the no of buffers in the buffer cache in SGA. PROCESSES - To determine number of operating system processes that can be connected to ORACLE concurrently. The value should be 5 (background process) and additional 1 for each user. ROLLBACK_SEGMENTS - List of rollback segments an ORACLE instance acquires at database startup. Also optionally LICENSE_MAX_SESSIONS, LICENSE_SESSION_WARNING and LICENSE_MAX_USERS. 9. What is a trace file and how is it created? Each server and background process can write an associated trace file. When an internal error is detected by a process or user process, it dumps information about the error to its trace. This can be used for tuning the database. What are roles? How can we implement roles?

Roles are the easiest way to grant and manage common privileges needed by different groups of database users. Creating roles and assigning provides to roles. Assign each role to group of users. This will simplify the job of assigning privileges to individual users.

Concepts and Architecture of Database Structures Part - 5 1. What are the steps to switch a database's archiving mode between NO ARCHIVELOG and ARCHIVELOG mode? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Shutdown the database instance. Backup the databse Perform any operating system specific steps (optional) Start up a new instance and mount but do not open the databse. Switch the databse's archiving mode.

2. How can you enable automatic archiving? Shut the database Backup the database Modify/Include LOG_ARCHIVE_START_TRUE in init.ora file. Start up the databse. 3. How can we specify the Archived log file name format and destination ? By setting the following values in init.ora file. LOG_ARCHIVE_FORMAT = arch %S/s/T/tarc (%S - Log sequence number and is zero left paded, %s - Log sequence number not padded. %T - Thread number lef-zero-paded and %t Thread number not padded). The file name created is arch 0001 are if %S is used. LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST = path. 4. What is the use of ANALYZE command? And Define Transaction? To perform one of these function on an index,table, or cluster: A Transaction is a logical unit of work that comprises one or more SQL statements executed by a single user. To collect statistics about object used by the optimizer and store them in the data dictionary. To delete statistics about the object used by object from the data dictionary. To validate the structure of the object. To identify migrated and chained rows of the table or cluster.

MANAGING DISTRIBUTED DATABASES. 1. How can we reduce the network traffic? - Replication of data in distributed environment.

- Using snapshots to replicate data. - Using remote procedure calls. 2. What are snapshots? Snapshot is an object used to dynamically replicate data between distribute database at specified time intervals. In ver. 7.0 they are read only. 3. What are the various types of snapshots? Simple and Complex. 4. Differentiate simple and complex, snapshots? - A simple snapshot is based on a query that does not contains GROUP BY clauses, CONNECT BY clauses, Joins, sub-query or snapshot of operations. - A complex snapshots contain at least any one of the above. 5. What dynamic data replication? Updating or Inserting records in remote database through database triggers. It may fail if remote database is having any problem. 6. How can you Enforce Referential Integrity in snapshots? Time the references to occur when master tables are not in use. Perform the reference the manually immediately locking the master tables. We can join tables in snapshots by creating a complex snapshots that will based on the master tables. 7. What are the options available to refresh snapshots? COMPLETE - Tables are completely regenerated using the snapshot's query and the master tables every time the snapshot referenced. FAST - If simple snapshot used then a snapshot log can be used to send the changes to the snapshot tables. FORCE - Default value. If possible it performs a FAST refresh; otherwise it will perform a complete refresh. 8. What is snapshot log? It is a table that maintains a record of modifications to the master table in a snapshot. It is stored in the same database as master table and is only available for simple snapshots. It should be created before creating snapshots. 9. When will the data in the snapshot log be used? We must be able to create a after row trigger on table (i.e., it should be not be already available) After giving table privileges. We cannot specify snapshot log name because oracle uses the name of the master table in the name of the database objects that support its snapshot log. The master table name should be less than or equal to 23 characters. (The table name created will be MLOGS_tablename, and trigger name will be TLOGS name). 10. What are the benefits of distributed options in databases? Database on other servers can be updated and those transactions can be grouped together with others in a logical unit. Database uses a two phase commit.

MANAGING BACKUP & RECOVERY 1. What are the different methods of backing up oracle database? - Logical Backups - Cold Backups - Hot Backups (Archive log) 2. What is a logical backup? Logical backup involves reading a set of databse records and writing them into a file. Export utility is used for taking backup and Import utility is used to recover from backup.

3. What is cold backup? What are the elements of it? Cold backup is taking backup of all physical files after normal shutdown of database. We need to take. - All Data files. - All Control files. - All on-line redo log files. - The init.ora file (Optional) 4. What are the different kinds of export backups? Full back - Complete database Incremental - Only affected tables from last incremental date/full backup date. Cumulative backup - Only affected table from the last cumulative date/full backup date. 5. What is hot backup and how it can be taken? Taking backup of archive log files when database is open. For this the ARCHIVELOG mode should be enabled. The following files need to be backed up. All data files. All Archive log, redo log files. All control files. 6. What is the use of FILE option in EXP command? To give the export file name. 7. What is the use of COMPRESS option in EXP command? Flag to indicate whether export should compress fragmented segments into single extents. 8. What is the use of GRANT option in EXP command? A flag to indicate whether grants on databse objects will be exported or not. Value is 'Y' or 'N'. 9. What is the use of INDEXES option in EXP command? A flag to indicate whether indexes on tables will be exported. 10. What is the use of ROWS option in EXP command? Flag to indicate whether table rows should be exported. If 'N' only DDL statements for the databse objects will be created. 11. What is the use of CONSTRAINTS option in EXP command? A flag to indicate whether constraints on table need to be exported. 12. What is the use of FULL option in EXP command? A flag to indicate whether full databse export should be performed. 13. What is the use of OWNER option in EXP command? List of table accounts should be exported. 14. What is the use of TABLES option in EXP command? List of tables should be exported. 15. What is the use of RECORD LENGTH option in EXP command? Record length in bytes. 16. What is the use of INCTYPE option in EXP command? Type export should be performed COMPLETE,CUMULATIVE,INCREMENTAL. 17. What is the use of RECORD option in EXP command? For Incremental exports, the flag indirects whether a record will be stores data dictionary tables recording the export. 18. What is the use of PARFILE option in EXP command? Name of the parameter file to be passed for export.

19. What is the use of PARFILE option in EXP command? Name of the parameter file to be passed for export. 20. What is the use of ANALYSE ( Ver 7) option in EXP command? A flag to indicate whether statistical information about the exported objects should be written to export dump file.

21. What is the use of CONSISTENT (Ver 7) option in EXP command? A flag to indicate whether a read consistent version of all the exported objects should be maintained. 22. What is use of LOG (Ver 7) option in EXP command ? The name of the file which log of the export will be written. 23. What is the use of FILE option in IMP command ? The name of the file from which import should be performed. 24. What is the use of SHOW option in IMP command? A flag to indicate whether file content should be displayed or not. 25. What is the use of IGNORE option in IMP command? A flag to indicate whether the import should ignore errors encounter when issuing CREATE commands. 26. What is the use of GRANT option in IMP command? A flag to indicate whether grants on database objects will be imported. 27. What is the use of INDEXES option in IMP command? A flag to indicate whether import should import index on tables or not. 28. What is the use of ROWS option in IMP command? A flag to indicate whether rows should be imported. If this is set to 'N' then only DDL for database objects will be exectued.

SQL PLUS STATEMENTS 1. What are the types of SQL Statement? Data Definition Language: CREATE, ALTER, DROP, TRUNCATE, REVOKE, NO AUDIT & COMMIT. Data Manipulation Language: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, LOCK TABLE, EXPLAIN PLAN & SELECT. Transactional Control: COMMIT & ROLLBACK Session Control: ALTERSESSION & SET ROLE System Control: ALTER SYSTEM. 2. What is a transaction ?

Transaction is logical unit between two commits and commit and rollback. 3. What is difference between TRUNCATE & DELETE ? TRUNCATE commits after deleting entire table i.e., can not be rolled back. Database triggers do not fire on TRUNCATE DELETE allows the filtered deletion. Deleted records can be rolled back or committed. Database triggers fire on DELETE. 4. What is a join? Explain the different types of joins? Join is a query which retrieves related columns or rows from multiple tables. Self Join - Joining the table with itself. Equi Join - Joining two tables by equating two common columns. Non-Equi Join - Joining two tables by equating two common columns. Outer Join - Joining two tables in such a way that query can also retrive rows that do not have corresponding join value in the other table. Subquery is a query whose return values are used in filtering conditions of the main query. 5. What is correlated sub-query? Correlated sub_query is a sub_query which has reference to the main query. 6. Explain Connect by Prior? Retrives rows in hierarchical order. EX: select empno, ename from emp where. 7. Difference between SUBSTR and INSTR? INSTR (String1,String2(n,(m)), INSTR returns the position of the mth occurrence of the string 2 in string1. The search begins from nth position of string1. SUBSTR (String1 n,m) SUBSTR returns a character string of size m in string1, starting from nth postion of string1.

Concepts and Architecture of Database Structures Part - 6 1. Explain UNION, MINUS, UNION ALL, INTERSECT? INTERSECT returns all distinct rows selected by both queries. MINUS - returns all distinct rows selected by the first query but not by the second. UNION - returns all distinct rows selected by either query UNION ALL - returns all rows selected by either query, including all duplicates. 2. What is ROWID? ROWID is a pseudo column attached to each row of a table. It is 18 character long, blockno, rownumber are the components of ROWID.
2.a) What is the fastest way of accessing a row in a table?

Using ROWID

CONSTRAINTS

3. What is an Integrity Constraint? Integrity constraint is a rule that restricts values to a column in a table. 4. What is Referential Integrity? Maintaining data integrity through a set of rules that restrict the values of one or more columns of the tables based on the values of primary key or unique key of the referenced table. 5. What is the usage of SAVEPOINTS? SAVEPOINTS are used to subdivide a transaction into smaller parts. It enables rolling back part of a transaction. Maximum of five save points are allowed. 6. What is ON DELETE CASCADE? When ON DELETE CASCADE is specified ORACLE maintains referential integrity by automatically removing dependent foreign key values if a referenced primary or unique key value is removed. 7. What are the data types allowed in a table? CHAR, VARCHAR2, NUMBER, DATE, RAW, LONG and LONG RAW. 8. What is difference between CHAR and VARCHAR2? What is the maximum SIZE allowed for each type? CHAR pads blank spaces to the maximum length. VARCHAR2 does not pad blank spaces. For CHAR it is 255 and 2000 for VARCHAR2. 9. How many LONG columns are allowed in a table? Is it possible to use LONG columns in WHERE clause or ORDER BY? Only one LONG columns is allowed. It is not possible to use LONG column in WHERE or ORDER BY clause. 10. What are the pre requisites? I. To modify datatype of a column? ii. To add a column with NOT NULL constraint? To Modify the datatype of a column the column must be empty.To add a column with NOT NULL constrain, the table must be empty. 11. Where the integrity constraints are stored in Data Dictionary? The integrity constraints are stored in USER_CONSTRAINTS. 12. How will you a activate/deactivate integrity constraints? The integrity constraints can be enabled or disabled by ALTER TABLE ENABLE constraint/DISABLE constraint. 13. If an unique key constraint on DATE column is created, will it validate the rows that are inserted with SYSDATE? It won't, Because SYSDATE format contains time attached with it. 14. What is a database link? Database Link is a named path through which a remote database can be accessed. 16. How to access the current value and next value from a sequence? Is it possible to access the current value in a session before accessing next value?

Sequence name CURRVAL, Sequence name NEXTVAL. It is not possible. Only if you access next value in the session, current value can be accessed. 17. What is CYCLE/NO CYCLE in a Sequence ? CYCLE specifies that the sequence continues to generate values after reaching either maximum or minimum value. After pan ascending sequence reaches its maximum value, it generates its minimum value. After a descending sequence reaches its minimum, it generates its maximum. NO CYCLE specifies that the sequence cannot generate more values after reaching its maximum or minimum value. 18. What are the advantages of VIEW? To protect some of the columns of a table from other users. To hide complexity of a query. To hide complexity of calculations. 19. Can a view be updated/inserted/deleted? If Yes under what conditions? A View can be updated/deleted/inserted if it has only one base table if the view is based on columns from one or more tables then insert, update and delete is not possible. 20. If a View on a single base table is manipulated will the changes be reflected on the base table? If changes are made to the tables which are base tables of a view will the changes be reference on the view.

FORMS BASIC 1. What is an SQL *FORMS? SQL *forms is 4GL tool for developing and executing; Oracle based interactive application. 2. What is the maximum size of a form? 255 character width and 255 characters Length. 3. Name the two files that are created when you generate the form give the file extension ? INP (Source File) FRM (Executable File) 4. How do you control the constraints in forms? Select the use constraint property is ON Block definition screen.
BLOCK

5. Committed block sometimes refer to a BASE TABLE? True or False. False. 6. Can we create two blocks with the same name in form 3.0? No. 7. While specifying master/detail relationship between two blocks specifying the join condition is a must? True or False. True.

Database
A database is a logically coherent collection of data with some inherent meaning, representing some aspect of real world and which is designed, built and populated with data for a specific purpose

DBMS
It is a collection of programs that enables user to create and maintain a database. In other words it is general-purpose software that provides the users with the processes of defining, constructing and manipulating the database for various applications.

Database system
The database and DBMS software together is called as Database system.

Advantages of DBMS?
Redundancy is controlled. Unauthorized access is restricted. providing multiple user interfaces. Enforcing integrity constraints. Providing backup and recovery.

Disadvantage in File Processing System

Data redundancy & inconsistency. Difficult in accessing data. Data isolation. Data integrity. Concurrent access is not possible. Security Problems.

The three levels of data abstraction

Physical level: The lowest level of abstraction describes how data are stored. Logical level: The next higher level of abstraction, describes what data are stored in database and what relationship among those data. View level: The highest level of abstraction describes only part of entire database.

Data Independence
Data independence means that the application is independent of the storage structure and access strategy of data. In other words, The ability to modify the schema definition in one level should not affect the schema definition in the next higher level.

Two types of Data Independence:

Physical Data Independence: Modification in physical level should not affect the logical level. Logical Data Independence: Modification in logical level should affect the view level. NOTE: Logical Data Independence is more difficult to achieve

View & How is it related to data independence?

A view may be thought of as a virtual table, that is, a table that does not really exist in its own right but is instead derived from one or more underlying base table. In other words, there is no stored file that direct represents the view instead a definition of view is stored in data dictionary. Growth and restructuring of base tables is not reflected in views. Thus the view can insulate users from the effects of restructuring and growth in the database. Hence accounts for logical data independence.

Data Model
A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships data semantics and constraints. Prev - Next >>

1. Following are the advantages of DBMS?

a.Redundancy is controlled b.unauthorized access is restricted c.Doesnt enforce integrity constraints d.both a & b

2. levels of data abstraction available?

a) 1 b)2 c) 3 d)4

3. The highest level of abstraction describes only part of entire database.

a.Physical level b)logical level c)view level d)both b and c

4. A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships data semantics and constraints.
a)data model b)E-R model c)object oriented model d)none

5. This data model is based on real world that consists of basic objects called entities and of relationship among these objects
a)data model b)E-R model c)object oriented model d)none

6. A 'thing' in the real world with an independent existence

a)entity b)model c)both a and b d)none of these

7. A data base schema that is specified by a set of definitions expressed by a special language is called
a)DDL b)VDL c)DML d)SDL

8. The language that is used to specify the internal schema is

a)DDL b)VDL c)DML d)SDL

9. The process of analyzing the given relation schemas based on their Functional Dependencies is known as
a)Dependency b)normalization c)both a and b d)none

10. A relation schema R is in ____ if it is in 1NF and every non-prime attribute, A in R is fully functionally dependent on primary key.
a)1 NF b)2 NF c)3 NF d)BCNF

11. A relation schema R is in ____ if it is in 3NF and satisfies an additional constraint that for every FD X A, X must be a candidate key
a)1 NF b)2 NF c)3 NF d)BCNF

12. The set of attributes that can uniquely identify weak entities and that are related to same owner entity is
a)Partial key b)alternate key c)artificial key d)compound key

13. All Candidate Keys excluding the Primary Key are known as ___
a)Partial keys b)alternate keys c)artificial keys d)compound keys

14. When one of the data elements stored within a construct is utilized as the primary key, then it is called the?
a)alternate key b)natural key c)compound key d)partial key

15. The technique for determining how quickly specific data can be found is known as__
a)normalization b)data manipulating c)indexing d)none of these 16. Number of types of indexing a)1 b)4 c)5 d)2

17. The phase that identifies an efficient execution plan for evaluating a query that has the least estimated cost is referred to as
a)query generation b)query optimization c)dependency d)redundancy

18. The concept which is used to model a relationship between a collection of entities and relationships...
a)atomicity b)aggregation c)deadlock d)both a and b

19. By taking ______, the DBMS can reduce the amount of work to be done during restart in the event of subsequent crashes
a)dead lock b)atomicity c)aggregations d)checkpoints

20. Number of transaction phases available

a)1 b)2 c)3 d)4

21. Concatenation of every row in one relation with every row in another
a)product b)join c)insertion d)none of these

22. Concatenation of rows from one relation and related rows from another
a)product b)join c)insertion d)none of these

24. Major sets of files on disk that compose a database

a)database files b)control files c)redo logs d)all the above

25. _____is a PL/SQL block that can defined to automatically execute for insert, update, and delete statements against a table
a)database b)database trigger c)both a and b d)none of these

26. Stored procedures are used to ____

a)increase the network traffic b)Remove the network traffic c)reduce the network traffic d)block the network traffic

27. Tables derived from the ERD

a) Are totally unnormalised b) Are always in 1NF c) Can be further denormalised d) May have multi-valued attributes

28. Spurious tuples may occur due to i. Bad normalization ii. Theta joins iii. Updating tables from join
a) i & ii b) ii & iii c) i & iii d) ii & iii

29. A B C is a set of attributes. The functional dependency is as follows AB -> B AC -> C C -> B
a) is in 1NF b) is in 2NF c) is in 3NF d) is in BCNF

30. In mapping of ERD to DFD

a) entities in ERD should correspond to an existing entity/store in DFD b) entity in DFD is converted to attributes of an entity in ERD c) relations in ERD has 1 to 1 correspondence to processes in DFD d) relationships in ERD has 1 to 1 correspondence to flows in DFD

31. A dominant entity is the entity

a) on the N side in a 1 : N relationship b) on the 1 side in a 1 : N relationship c) on either side in a 1 : 1 relationship d) nothing to do with 1 : 1 or 1 : N relationship

32. Select 'NORTH', CUSTOMER From CUST_DTLS Where REGION = 'N' Order By CUSTOMER Union Select 'EAST', CUSTOMER From CUST_DTLS Where REGION = 'E' Order By CUSTOMER The above is
a) Not an error b) Error - the string in single quotes 'NORTH' and 'SOUTH' c) Error - the string should be in double quotes d) Error - ORDER BY clause

33. _____is a program module that provides the interface between the low-level data stored in database, application programs and queries submitted to the system
a)storage manager b)buffer manager c)transaction manager d)file manager

34. ____is a program module, which is responsible for fetching data from disk storage into main memory and deciding what data to be cache in memory
a)storage manager b)buffer manager c)transaction manager d)file manager

35. ____is a program module, which ensures that database, remains in a consistent state despite system failures and concurrent transaction execution proceeds without conflicting
a)storage manager b)buffer manager c)transaction manager d)file manager

36. _______is a program module, which manages the allocation of space on disk storage and data structure used to represent information stored on a disk
a)storage manager b)buffer manager c)transaction manager d)file manager

37. copying the three sets of files (database files, redo logs, and control file) when the instance is shut down is known as ____
a)cold backup b)hot backup

38. Which is the subset of SQL commands used to manipulate Oracle Database structures, including tables?
a)DDL b)DML c)VDL d)DSL

39. What operator performs pattern matching?

a)LIKE b)NULL c)NOT NULL d)IS NULL

40. What will be the output of the following query? SELECT DECODE(TRANSLATE('A','1234567890','1111111111'), '1','YES', 'NO' );
a)1 b)YES c)NO d)YESNO

41. What will be the output of the following query? SELECT REPLACE(TRANSLATE(LTRIM(RTRIM('!! ATHEN !!','!'), '!'), 'AN', '**'),'*','TROUBLE') FROM DUAL;
a)TROUBLE b)ATHENTROUBLE c)THETROUBLE d)TROUBLETHETROUBLE

RDBMS Concepts 1. What is database?

A database is a logically coherent collection of data with some inherent meaning, representing some aspect of real world and which is designed, built and populated with data for a specific purpose.

2. What is DBMS?
It is a collection of programs that enables user to create and maintain a database. In other words it is general-purpose software that provides the users with the processes of defining, constructing and manipulating the database for various applications.

3. What is a Database system?

The database and DBMS software together is called as Database system.

4. Advantages of DBMS?
Redundancy is controlled. Unauthorized access is restricted. Providing multiple user interfaces. Enforcing integrity constraints. Providing backup and recovery.

5. Disadvantage in File Processing System?

Data redundancy & inconsistency. Difficult in accessing data. Data isolation. Data integrity. Concurrent access is not possible. Security Problems.

6. Describe the three levels of data abstraction?

There are three levels of abstraction:

Physical level: The lowest level of abstraction describes how data are stored.

Logical level: The next higher level of abstraction, describes what data are stored in database and what relationship among those data. View level: The highest level of abstraction describes only part of entire database. 7. Define the "integrity rules"
There are two Integrity rules.

Entity Integrity: States that Primary key cannot have NULL value Referential Integrity: States that Foreign Key can be either a NULL value or should be Primary Key value of other relation. 8. What is extension and intension? Extension - It is the number of tuples present in a table at any instance. This is time dependent. Intension - It is a constant value that gives the name, structure of table and the constraints laid on it. 9. What is System R? What are its two major subsystems?
System R was designed and developed over a period of 1974-79 at IBM San Jose Research Center. It is a prototype and its purpose was to demonstrate that it is possible to build a Relational System that can be used in a real life environment to solve real life problems, with performance at least comparable to that of existing system. Its two subsystems are Research Storage System Relational Data System.

10. How is the data structure of System R different from the relational structure?
Unlike Relational systems in System R Domains are not supported Enforcement of candidate key uniqueness is optional Enforcement of entity integrity is optional Referential integrity is not enforced

11. What is Data Independence?

Data independence means that the application is independent of the storage structure and access strategy of data. In other words, The ability to modify the schema definition in one level should not affect the schema definition in the next higher level. Two types of Data Independence:

Physical Data Independence: Modification in physical level should not affect the logical level. Logical Data Independence: Modification in logical level should affect the view level.
NOTE: Logical Data Independence is more difficult to achieve

12. What is a view? How it is related to data independence?

A view may be thought of as a virtual table, that is, a table that does not really exist in its own right but is instead derived from one or more underlying base table. In other words, there is no stored file that direct represents the view instead a definition of view is stored in data dictionary. Growth and restructuring of base tables is not reflected in views. Thus the view can insulate users from the effects of restructuring and growth in the database. Hence accounts for logical data independence.

13. What is Data Model?

A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships data semantics and constraints.

14. What is E-R model?

This data model is based on real world that consists of basic objects called entities and of relationship among these objects. Entities are described in a database by a set of attributes.

15. What is Object Oriented model?

This model is based on collection of objects. An object contains values stored in instance variables with in the object. An object also contains bodies of code that operate on the object. These bodies of code are called methods. Objects that contain same types of values and the same methods are grouped together into classes.

16. What is an Entity?

It is a 'thing' in the real world with an independent existence.

17. What is an Entity type?

It is a collection (set) of entities that have same attributes.

18. What is an Entity set?

It is a collection of all entities of particular entity type in the database.

19. What is an Extension of entity type?

The collections of entities of a particular entity type are grouped together into an entity set.

20. What is Weak Entity set?

An entity set may not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key, and its primary key compromises of its partial key and primary key of its parent entity, then it is said to be Weak Entity set.

21. What is an attribute?

It is a particular property, which describes the entity.

22. What is a Relation Schema and a Relation?

A relation Schema denoted by R(A1, A2, , An) is made up of the relation name R and the list of attributes Ai that it contain s. A relation is defined as a set of tuples. Let r be the relation which contains set tuples (t1, t2, t3, ..., tn). Each tuple is an ordered list of n-values t=(v1,v2, ..., vn).

23. What is degree of a Relation?

It is the number of attribute of its relation schema.

24. What is Relationship?

It is an association among two or more entities.

25. What is Relationship set?

The collection (or set) of similar relationships.

26. What is Relationship type?

Relationship type defines a set of associations or a relationship set among a given set of entity types.

27. What is degree of Relationship type?

It is the number of entity type participating.

28. What is DDL (Data Definition Language)?

A data base schema is specifies by a set of definitions expressed by a special language called DDL.

29. What is VDL (View Definition Language)?

It specifies user views and their mappings to the conceptual schema.

30. What is SDL (Storage Definition Language)?

This language is to specify the internal schema. This language may specify the mapping between two schemas.

31. What is Data Storage - Definition Language?

The storage structures and access methods used by database system are specified by a set of definition in a special type of DDL called data storage-definition language.

32. What is DML (Data Manipulation Language)?

This language that enable user to access or manipulate data as organised by appropriate data model.

Procedural DML or Low level: DML requires a user to specify what data are needed and how to get those data. Non-Procedural DML or High level: DML requires a user to specify what data are needed without specifying how to get those data. 33. What is DML Compiler?
It translates DML statements in a query language into low-level instruction that the query evaluation engine can understand.

34. What is Query evaluation engine?

It executes low-level instruction generated by compiler.

35. What is DDL Interpreter?

It interprets DDL statements and record them in tables containing metadata.

36. What is Record-at-a-time?

The Low level or Procedural DML can specify and retrieve each record from a set of records. This retrieve of a record is said to be Record-at-a-time.

37. What is Set-at-a-time or Set-oriented?

The High level or Non-procedural DML can specify and retrieve many records in a single DML statement. This retrieve of a record is said to be Set-at-a-time or Set-oriented.

38. What is Relational Algebra?

It is procedural query language. It consists of a set of operations that take one or two relations as input and produce a new relation.

39. What is Relational Calculus?

It is an applied predicate calculus specifically tailored for relational databases proposed by E.F. Codd. E.g. of languages based on it are DSL ALPHA, QUEL.

40. How does Tuple-oriented relational calculus differ from domain-oriented relational calculus
The tuple-oriented calculus uses a tuple variables i.e., variable whose only permitted values are tuples of that relation. E.g. QUEL The domain-oriented calculus has domain variables i.e., variables that range over the underlying domains instead of over relation. E.g. ILL, DEDUCE.

41. What is normalization?

It is a process of analysing the given relation schemas based on their Functional Dependencies (FDs) and primary key to achieve the properties Minimizing redundancy Minimizing insertion, deletion and update anomalies.

42. What is Functional Dependency?

A Functional dependency is denoted by X Y between two sets of attributes X and Y that are subsets of R specifies a constraint on the possible tuple that can form a relation state r of R. The constraint is for any two tuples t1 and t2 in r if t1[X] = t2[X] then they have t1[Y] = t2[Y]. This means the value of X component of a tuple uniquely determines the value of component Y.

43. When is a functional dependency F said to be minimal?

Every dependency in F has a single attribute for its right hand side. We cannot replace any dependency X->A in F with a dependency Y->A where Y is a proper subset of X and still have a set of dependency that is equivalent to F. We cannot remove any dependency from F and still have set of dependency that is equivalent to F.

44. What is Multivalued dependency?

Multivalued dependency denoted by X->->Y specified on relation schema R, where X and Y are both subsets of R, specifies the following constraint on any relation r of R: if two tuples t1 and t2 exist in r such that t1[X] = t2[X] then t3 and t4 should also exist in r with the following properties t3[x] = t4[X] = t1[X] = t2[X] t3[Y] = t1[Y] and t4[Y] = t2[Y] t3[Z] = t2[Z] and t4[Z] = t1[Z] where [Z = (R-(X U Y)) ]

45. What is Lossless join property?

It guarantees that the spurious tuple generation does not occur with respect to relation schemas after decomposition.

46. What is 1 NF (Normal Form)?

The domain of attribute must include only atomic (simple, indivisible) values.

47. What is Fully Functional dependency?

It is based on concept of full functional dependency. A functional dependency X ->Y is full functional dependency if removal of any attribute A from X means that the dependency does not hold any more.

48. What is 2NF?

A relation schema R is in 2NF if it is in 1NF and every non-prime attribute A in R is fully functionally dependent on primary key.

49. What is 3NF?

A relation schema R is in 3NF if it is in 2NF and for every FD X->A either of the following is true X is a Super-key of R. A is a prime attribute of R.

In other words, if every non prime attribute is non-transitively dependent on primary key.

50. What is BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form)?

A relation schema R is in BCNF if it is in 3NF and satisfies an additional constraint that for every FD X->A, X must be a candidate key.

51. What is 4NF?

A relation schema R is said to be in 4NF if for every Multivalued dependency X->->Y that holds over R, one of following is true X is subset or equal to (or) XY = R. X is a super key.

52. What is 5NF?

A Relation schema R is said to be 5NF if for every join dependency {R1, R2, ..., Rn} that holds R, one the following is true Ri = R for some i. The join dependency is implied by the set of FD, over R in which the left side is key of R.

53. What is Domain-Key Normal Form?

A relation is said to be in DKNF if all constraints and dependencies that should hold on the the constraint can be enforced by simply enforcing the domain constraint and key constraint on the relation.

54. What are partial, alternate,, artificial, compound and natural key? Partial Key: It is a set of attributes that can uniquely identify weak entities and that are related to same owner entity. It is sometime called as
Discriminator.

Alternate Key: All Candidate Keys excluding the Primary Key are known as Alternate Keys. Artificial Key: If no obvious key, either stand alone or compound is available, then the last resort is to simply create a key, by assigning a
unique number to each record or occurrence. Then this is known as developing an artificial key.

Compound Key: If no single data element uniquely identifies occurrences within a construct, then combining multiple elements to create a
unique identifier for the construct is known as creating a compound key.

Natural Key: When one of the data elements stored within a construct is utilized as the primary key, then it is called the natural key. 55. What is indexing and what are the different kinds of indexing?
Indexing is a technique for determining how quickly specific data can be found.Types: Binary search style indexing B-Tree indexing Inverted list indexing Memory resident table Table indexing

56. What is system catalog or catalog relation? How is better known as?
A RDBMS maintains a description of all the data that it contains, information about every relation and index that it contains. This information is stored in a collection of relations maintained by the system called metadata. It is also called data dictionary.

57. What is meant by query optimization?

The phase that identifies an efficient execution plan for evaluating a query that has the least estimated cost is referred to as query optimization.

58. What is join dependency and inclusion dependency? Join Dependency: A Join dependency is generalization of Multivalued dependency.A JD {R1, R2, ..., Rn} is said to hold over a relation R if
R1, R2, R3, ..., Rn is a lossless-join decomposition of R . There is no set of sound and complete inference rules for JD.

Inclusion Dependency: An Inclusion Dependency is a statement of the form that some columns of a relation are contained in other columns.
A foreign key constraint is an example of inclusion dependency.

59. What is durability in DBMS?

Once the DBMS informs the user that a transaction has successfully completed, its effects should persist even if the system crashes before all its changes are reflected on disk. This property is called durability.

60. What do you mean by atomicity and aggregation? Atomicity: Either all actions are carried out or none are. Users should not have to worry about the effect of incomplete transactions. DBMS
ensures this by undoing the actions of incomplete transactions.

Aggregation: A concept which is used to model a relationship between a collection of entities and relationships. It is used when we need to
express a relationship among relationships.

61. What is a Phantom Deadlock?

In distributed deadlock detection, the delay in propagating local information might cause the deadlock detection algorithms to identify deadlocks that do not really exist. Such situations are called phantom deadlocks and they lead to unnecessary aborts.

62. What is a checkpoint and When does it occur?

A Checkpoint is like a snapshot of the DBMS state. By taking checkpoints, the DBMS can reduce the amount of work to be done during restart in the event of subsequent crashes.

63. What are the different phases of transaction?

Different phases are Analysis phase Redo Phase Undo phase

64. What do you mean by flat file database?

It is a database in which there are no programs or user access languages. It has no cross-file capabilities but is user-friendly and provides user-interface management.

65. What is "transparent DBMS"?

It is one, which keeps its Physical Structure hidden from user.

66. Brief theory of Network, Hierarchical schemas and their properties

Network schema uses a graph data structure to organize records example for such a database management system is CTCG while a hierarchical schema uses a tree data structure example for such a system is IMS.

67. What is a query?

A query with respect to DBMS relates to user commands that are used to interact with a data base. The query language can be classified into data definition language and data manipulation language.

68. What do you mean by Correlated subquery?

Subqueries, or nested queries, are used to bring back a set of rows to be used by the parent query. Depending on how the subquery is written, it can be executed once for the parent query or it can be executed once for each row returned by the parent query. If the subquery is executed for each row of the parent, this is called a correlated subquery.

A correlated subquery can be easily identified if it contains any references to the parent subquery columns in its WHERE clause. Columns from the subquery cannot be referenced anywhere else in the parent query. The following example demonstrates a non-correlated subquery. E.g. Select * From CUST Where '10/03/1990' IN (Select ODATE From ORDER Where CUST.CNUM = ORDER.CNUM)

69. What are the primitive operations common to all record management systems?
Addition, deletion and modification.

70. Name the buffer in which all the commands that are typed in are stored Edit Buffer 71. What are the unary operations in Relational Algebra?
PROJECTION and SELECTION.

72. Are the resulting relations of PRODUCT and JOIN operation the same?
No. PRODUCT: Concatenation of every row in one relation with every row in another. JOIN: Concatenation of rows from one relation and related rows from another.

73. What is RDBMS KERNEL?

Two important pieces of RDBMS architecture are the kernel, which is the software, and the data dictionary, which consists of the system-level data structures used by the kernel to manage the database You might think of an RDBMS as an operating system (or set of subsystems), designed specifically for controlling data access; its primary functions are storing, retrieving, and securing data. An RDBMS maintains its own list of authorized users and their associated privileges; manages memory caches and paging; controls locking for concurrent resource usage; dispatches and schedules user requests; and manages space usage within its table-space structures 74. Name the sub-systems of a RDBMS I/O, Security, Language Processing, Process Control, Storage Management, Logging and Recovery, Distribution Control, Transaction Control, Memory Management, Lock Management

75. Which part of the RDBMS takes care of the data dictionary? How
Data dictionary is a set of tables and database objects that is stored in a special area of the database and maintained exclusively by the kernel.

76. What is the job of the information stored in data-dictionary?

The information in the data dictionary validates the existence of the objects, provides access to them, and maps the actual physical storage location.

77. Not only RDBMS takes care of locating data it also

determines an optimal access path to store or retrieve the data

78. How do you communicate with an RDBMS?

You communicate with an RDBMS using Structured Query Language (SQL)

79. Define SQL and state the differences between SQL and other conventional programming Languages

SQL is a nonprocedural language that is designed specifically for data access operations on normalized relational database structures. The primary difference between SQL and other conventional programming languages is that SQL statements specify what data operations should be performed rather than how to perform them.

80. Name the three major set of files on disk that compose a database in Oracle
There are three major sets of files on disk that compose a database. All the files are binary. These are Database files Control files Redo logs The most important of these are the database files where the actual data resides. The control files and the redo logs support the functioning of the architecture itself. All three sets of files must be present, open, and available to Oracle for any data on the database to be useable. Without these files, you cannot access the database, and the database administrator might have to recover some or all of the database using a backup, if there is one.

81. What is an Oracle Instance?

The Oracle system processes, also known as Oracle background processes, provide functions for the user processes functions that would otherwise be done by the user processes themselves Oracle database-wide system memory is known as the SGA, the system global area or shared global area. The data and control structures in the SGA are shareable, and all the Oracle background processes and user processes can use them. The combination of the SGA and the Oracle background processes is known as anOracle instance

82. What are the four Oracle system processes that must always be up and running for the database to be useable
The four Oracle system processes that must always be up and running for the database to be useable include DBWR (Database Writer), LGWR (Log Writer), SMON (System Monitor), and PMON (Process Monitor).

RDBMS Concepts Part - 2

1. What are database files, control files and log files. How many of these files should a database have at least? Why? Database Files
The database files hold the actual data and are typically the largest in size. Depending on their sizes, the tables (and other objects) for all the user accounts can go in one database filebut that's not an ideal situation because it does not make the database structure very flexible for controlling access to storage for different users, putting the database on different disk drives, or backing up and restoring just part of the database. You must have at least one database file but usually, more than one files are used. In terms of accessing and using the data in the tables and other objects, the number (or location) of the files is immaterial. The database files are fixed in size and never grow bigger than the size at which they were created

Control Files
The control files and redo logs support the rest of the architecture. Any database must have at least one control file, although you typically have more than one to guard against loss. The control file records the name of the database, the date and time it was created, the location of the database and redo logs, and the synchronization information to ensure that all three sets of files are always in step. Every time you add a new database or redo log file to the database, the information is recorded in the control files.

Redo Logs
Any database must have at least two redo logs. These are the journals for the database; the redo logs record all changes to the user objects or system objects. If any type of failure occurs, the changes recorded in the redo logs can be used to bring the database to a consistent state without losing any committed transactions. In the case of non-data loss failure, Oracle can apply the information in the redo logs automatically without intervention from the DBA. The redo log files are fixed in size and never grow dynamically from the size at which they were created.

2. What is ROWID?
The ROWID is a unique database-wide physical address for every row on every table. Once assigned (when the row is first inserted into the database), it never changes until the row is deleted or the table is dropped. The ROWID consists of the following three components, the combination of which uniquely identifies the physical storage location of the row. Oracle database file number, which contains the block with the rows Oracle block address, which contains the row The row within the block (because each block can hold many rows) The ROWID is used internally in indexes as a quick means of retrieving rows with a particular key value. Application developers also use it in SQL statements as a quick way to access a row once they know the ROWID

3. What is Oracle Block? Can two Oracle Blocks have the same address?
Oracle "formats" the database files into a number of Oracle blocks when they are first created making it easier for the RDBMS software to manage the files and easier to read data into the memory areas. The block size should be a multiple of the operating system block size. Regardless of the block size, the entire block is not available for holding data; Oracle takes up some space to manage the contents of the block. This block header has a minimum size, but it can grow. These Oracle blocks are the smallest unit of storage. Increasing the Oracle block size can improve performance, but it should be done only when the database is first created. Each Oracle block is numbered sequentially for each database file starting at 1. Two blocks can have the same block address if they are in different database files.

4. What is database Trigger?

A database trigger is a PL/SQL block that can defined to automatically execute for insert, update, and delete statements against a table. The trigger can e defined to execute once for the entire statement or once for every row that is inserted, updated, or deleted. For any one table, there are twelve events for which you can define database triggers. A database trigger can call database procedures that are also written in PL/SQL.

5. Name two utilities that Oracle provides, which are use for backup and recovery.
Along with the RDBMS software, Oracle provides two utilities that you can use to back up and restore the database. These utilities are Export and Import. The Export utility dumps the definitions and data for the specified part of the database to an operating system binary file. The Import utility reads the file produced by an export, recreates the definitions of objects, and inserts the data If Export and Import are used as a means of backing up and recovering the database, all the changes made to the database cannot be recovered since the export was performed. The best you can do is recover the database to the time when the export was last performed.

6. What are stored-procedures? And what are the advantages of using them.
Stored procedures are database objects that perform a user defined operation. A stored procedure can have a set of compound SQL statements. A stored procedure executes the SQL commands and returns the result to the client. Stored procedures are used to reduce network traffic.

7. How are exceptions handled in PL/SQL? Give some of the internal exceptions' name
PL/SQL exception handling is a mechanism for dealing with run-time errors encountered during procedure execution. Use of this mechanism enables execution to continue if the error is not severe enough to cause procedure termination. The exception handler must be defined within a subprogram specification. Errors cause the program to raise an exception with a transfer of control to the exception-handler block. After the exception handler executes, control returns to the block in which the handler was defined. If there are no more executable statements in the block, control returns to the caller. User-Defined Exceptions PL/SQL enables the user to define exception handlers in the declarations area of subprogram specifications. User accomplishes this by naming an exception as in the following example: ot_failure EXCEPTION; In this case, the exception name is ot_failure. Code associated with this handler is written in the EXCEPTION specification area as follows: EXCEPTION when OT_FAILURE then

out_status_code := g_out_status_code; out_msg := g_out_msg; The following is an example of a subprogram exception: EXCEPTION when NO_DATA_FOUND then g_out_status_code := 'FAIL'; RAISE ot_failure; Within this exception is the RAISE statement that transfers control back to the ot_failure exception handler. This technique of raising the exception is used to invoke all user-defined exceptions. System-Defined Exceptions Exceptions internal to PL/SQL are raised automatically upon error. NO_DATA_FOUND is a system-defined exception. Table below gives a complete list of internal exceptions.

PL/SQL internal exceptions. Exception Name

CURSOR_ALREADY_OPEN DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX INVALID_CURSOR INVALID_NUMBER LOGIN_DENIED NO_DATA_FOUND NOT_LOGGED_ON PROGRAM_ERROR STORAGE_ERROR TIMEOUT_ON_RESOURCE TOO_MANY_ROWS TRANSACTION_BACKED_OUT VALUE_ERROR ZERO_DIVIDE

Oracle Error
ORA-06511 ORA-00001 ORA-01001 ORA-01722 ORA-01017 ORA-01403 ORA-01012 ORA-06501 ORA-06500 ORA-00051 ORA-01422 ORA-00061 ORA-06502 ORA-01476

In addition to this list of exceptions, there is a catch-all exception named OTHERS that traps all errors for which specific error handling has not been established.

8. Does PL/SQL support "overloading"? Explain

The concept of overloading in PL/SQL relates to the idea that you can define procedures and functions with the same name. PL/SQL does not look only at the referenced name, however, to resolve a procedure or function call. The count and data types of formal parameters are also considered. PL/SQL also attempts to resolve any procedure or function calls in locally defined packages before looking at globally defined packages or internal functions. To further ensure calling the proper procedure, you can use the dot notation. Prefacing a procedure or function name with the package name fully qualifies any procedure or function reference. Tables derived from the ERD a) Are totally unnormalised b) Are always in 1NF c) Can be further denormalised d) May have multi-valued attributes

(b) Are always in 1NF Spurious tuples may occur due to i. Bad normalization ii. Theta joins iii. Updating tables from join

a) i & ii c) i & iii

b) ii & iii d) ii & iii

(a) i & iii because theta joins are joins made on keys that are not primary keys. A B C is a set of attributes. The functional dependency is as follows AB -> B AC -> C C -> B a) is in 1NF b) is in 2NF c) is in 3NF d) is in BCNF (a) is in 1NF since (AC)+ = { A, B, C} hence AC is the primary key. Since C B is a FD given, where neither C is a Key nor B is a prime attribute, this it is not in 3NF. Further B is not functionally dependent on key AC thus it is not in 2NF. Thus the given FDs is in 1NF. In mapping of ERD to DFD a) entities in ERD should correspond to an existing entity/store in DFD b) entity in DFD is converted to attributes of an entity in ERD c) relations in ERD has 1 to 1 correspondence to processes in DFD d) relationships in ERD has 1 to 1 correspondence to flows in DFD (a) entities in ERD should correspond to an existing entity/store in DFD A dominant entity is the entity a) on the N side in a 1 : N relationship b) on the 1 side in a 1 : N relationship c) on either side in a 1 : 1 relationship d) nothing to do with 1 : 1 or 1 : N relationship (b) on the 1 side in a 1 : N relationship Select 'NORTH', CUSTOMER From CUST_DTLS Where REGION = 'N' Order By CUSTOMER Union Select 'EAST', CUSTOMER From CUST_DTLS Where REGION = 'E' Order By CUSTOMER The above is a) Not an error b) Error - the string in single quotes 'NORTH' and 'SOUTH' c) Error - the string should be in double quotes d) Error - ORDER BY clause (d) Error - the ORDER BY clause. Since ORDER BY clause cannot be used in UNIONS

9. What is Storage Manager?

It is a program module that provides the interface between the low-level data stored in database, application programs and queries submitted to the system.

10. What is Buffer Manager?

It is a program module, which is responsible for fetching data from disk storage into main memory and deciding what data to be cache in memory.

11. What is Transaction Manager?

It is a program module, which ensures that database, remains in a consistent state despite system failures and concurrent transaction execution proceeds without conflicting.

12. What is File Manager?

It is a program module, which manages the allocation of space on disk storage and data structure used to represent information stored on a disk.

13. What is Authorization and Integrity manager?

It is the program module, which tests for the satisfaction of integrity constraint and checks the authority of user to access data.

14. What are stand-alone procedures?

Procedures that are not part of a package are known as stand-alone because they independently defined. A good example of a standalone procedure is one written in a SQL*Forms application. These types of procedures are not available for reference from other Oracle tools. Another limitation of stand-alone procedures is that they are compiled at run time, which slows execution.

15. What are cursors give different types of cursors.

PL/SQL uses cursors for all database information accesses statements. The language supports the use two types of cursors Implicit Explicit

16. What is cold backup and hot backup (in case of Oracle)? Cold Backup: It is copying the three sets of files (database files, redo logs, and control file) when the instance is shut down. This is a straight
file copy, usually from the disk directly to tape. You must shut down the instance to guarantee a consistent copy. If a cold backup is performed, the only option available in the event of data file loss is restoring all the files from the latest backup. All work performed on the database since the last backup is lost.

Hot Backup: Some sites (such as worldwide airline reservations systems) cannot shut down the database while making a backup copy of the
files. The cold backup is not an available option. So different means of backing up database must be used the hot backup. Issue a SQL command to indicate to Oracle, on a tablespace-bytablespace basis, that the files of the tablespace are to backed up. The users can continue to make full use of the files, including making changes to the data. Once the user has indicated that he/she wants to back up the tablespace files, he/she can use the operating system to copy those files to the desired backup destination. The database must be running in ARCHIVELOG mode for the hot backup option. If a data loss failure does occur, the lost database files can be restored using the hot backup and the online and offline redo logs created since the backup was done. The database is restored to the most consistent state without any loss of committed transactions.

17. What are Armstrong rules? How do we say that they are complete and/or sound
The well-known inference rules for FDs

Reflexive rule :
If Y is subset or equal to X then X Y.

Augmentation rule:
If X Y then XZ If {X Y, Y YZ. Z} then X Y. Z} then X Z} then WX YZ. Z. Z.

Transitive rule: Decomposition rule :

If X YZ then X If {X Y, X Y, WY

Union or Additive rule: Pseudo Transitive rule :

If {X

Of these the first three are known as Amstrong Rules. They are sound because it is enough if a set of FDs satisfy these three. They are called complete because using these three rules we can generate the rest all inference rules.

18. How can you find the minimal key of relational schema?

Minimal key is one which can identify each tuple of the given relation schema uniquely. For finding the minimal key it is required to find the closure that is the set of all attributes that are dependent on any given set of attributes under the given set of functional dependency.

Algo. I Determining X+, closure for X, given set of FDs F

Set X+ = X Set Old X+ = X+ For each FD Y Z in F and if Y belongs to X+ then add Z to X+ Repeat steps 2 and 3 until Old X+ = X+

Algo.II Determining minimal K for relation schema R, given set of FDs F

Set K to R that is make K a set of all attributes in R For each attribute A in K Compute (K A)+ with respect to F If (K A)+ = R then set K = (K A)+

19. What do you understand by dependency preservation?

Given a relation R and a set of FDs F, dependency preservation states that the closure of the union of the projection of F on each decomposed relation Ri is equal to the closure of F. i.e., ((R1(F)) U U (Rn(F)))+ = F+ if decomposition is not dependency preserving, then some dependency is lost in the decomposition.

20. What is meant by Proactive, Retroactive and Simultaneous Update. Proactive Update: The updates that are applied to database before it becomes effective in real world . Retroactive Update: The updates that are applied to database after it becomes effective in real world . Simulatneous Update: The updates that are applied to database at the same time when it becomes effective in real world . 21. What are the different types of JOIN operations? Equi Join: This is the most common type of join which involves only equality comparisions.

Oracle Sample Programs

/* Program to insert records into the students table */

declare v_rno student.rno%type; v_name student.name%type; v_marks student.marks%type; begin v_rno:=&rno; v_name:='&name'; v_marks:=&marks; insert into student(rno,name,marks) values(v_rno,v_name,v_marks); dbms_output.put_line('record has been inserted'); END; /

/* Updating data in the table by entering the roll no of a particular student. */

declare v_marks student.marks%type; v_rno student.rno%type;

begin select marks,rno into v_marks,v_rno from student where rno=&rno; if (v_marks >=75) then update student set grade='Distinction' where rno=v_rno; elsif (v_marks >=60 and v_marks < 75) then update student set grade='Credit' where rno=v_rno; elsif (v_marks >=40 and v_marks < 60) then update student set grade='Pass' where rno=v_rno; else update student set grade='Fail' where rno=v_rno; end if; END; /
/* Get emp details */

declare v_ename emp.ename%type; v_sal emp.salary%type; begin select ename,salary into v_ename,v_sal from emp where empno=&empno; dbms_output.put_line('your name is '||v_ename); dbms_output.put_line('you are getting ' ||v_sal ||' dollars'); exception when No_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('No such employee present'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('Too many records found'); end; / declare mrec emp%rowtype; begin select ename,salary into mrec.ename,mrec.salary from emp where empno=&empno; dbms_output.put_line('your name is '||mrec.ename); dbms_output.put_line('you are getting ' ||mrec.salary ||' dollars'); exception when No_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('No such employee present'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('Too many records found'); end; / declare x number; begin for x in 1..10

loop dbms_output.put_line(x); end loop; end; /

declare x number:=1; begin while(x<=10) loop dbms_output.put_line(x); x:=x+1; end loop; end; / Declare x number:=2; begin loop dbms_output.put_line(x); x:=x+2; exit when x = 22; end loop; END; / declare eng number; maths number; science number; total number; per number; begin eng:=&englishmarks; maths:=&mathsmarks; science:=&sciencemarks; total:=eng+maths+science; per:=total/3; if(per >= 75) then dbms_output.put_line('Distinction'); elsif (per >=60 and per <75) then dbms_output.put_line('Credit'); elsif (per >=40 and per <60) then dbms_output.put_line('Pass'); else

dbms_output.put_line('Fail'); end if; end; / declare eng number; maths number; science number; total number; per number; begin eng:=&englishmarks; maths:=&mathsmarks; science:=&sciencemarks; total:=eng+maths+science; per:=total/3; if(per >= 75) then dbms_output.put_line('Distinction'); else if (per >=60 and per <75) then dbms_output.put_line('Credit'); else if (per >=40 and per <60) then dbms_output.put_line('Pass'); else dbms_output.put_line('Fail'); end if; end if; end if; end; /

CURSORS declare cursor c1 is select empno,ename,salary from emp order by empno desc; mrec emp%rowtype; begin open c1; for i in 1..2 loop fetch c1 into mrec.empno,mrec.ename, mrec.salary; insert into empdup(empno,ename,salary) values(mrec.empno,mrec.ename, mrec.salary); exit when c1%notfound; end loop; close c1; end; /
/* Program to copy 'n' records to another table using %rowcount */

DECLARE cursor c2 is select empno,ename,salary from emp; mrec emp%rowtype; BEGIN open c2; loop fetch c2 into mrec.empno,mrec.ename,mrec.salary; exit when c2%rowcount=&EnterNoOfRows; insert into empdup(empno,ename,salary) values(mrec.empno,mrec.ename,mrec.salary); end loop; close c2; END; /
/* Program to extract top 5 records from the students and insert them into the toppers table */

DECLARE cursor c1 is select name, grade from student order by marks desc; mrec student%rowtype; BEGIN open c1; loop fetch c1 into mrec.name,mrec.grade; exit when c1%rowcount=5; insert into toppers (name, grade) values(mrec.name,mrec.grade); end loop; close c1; dbms_output.put_line('Successfully inserted rows in Toppers table'); END; /

DECLARE display first name of women of all ages in the People table CURSOR Get_Women IS SELECT First_Name FROM People WHERE Gender = 'F'; Then we OPEN it, FETCH it until the EOF, and CLOSE it. These last three operations are done implicitly by the FOR LOOP --below: BEGIN FOR Get_Women_cur IN Get_Women LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Get_Women_cur.First_Name); END LOOP; END; /
ISOPEN: Boolean FOUND:

- is the cursor open or closed? Boolean - did the cursor retrieve a row? NOTFOUND: Boolean - The reverse of FOUND. TRUE when a row could not be retrieved.

NUMBER, which row is it? 1st, 2nd, etc. This is not the equivalent of a RecordCount in the dynaset or Recordset. This is actually the current record number. Using these indicators, we can control the loop:
ROWCOUNT:

DECLARE display first name of women of all ages in the PEOPLE table CURSOR Get_Women IS SELECT First_Name FROM People WHERE Gender = 'F'; Name_Rec Get_Women%ROWTYPE; BEGIN OPEN Get_Women; LOOP FETCH Get_Women INTO Name_Rec; EXIT WHEN Get_Women%NOTFOUND; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Name_Rec.First_Name); END LOOP; CLOSE Get_Women; END; /

create or replace procedure pr1(a number, b number) is c number; begin c:=a+b; dbms_output.put_line('The sum is :' || c); end; / PROCEDURES AND FUNCTIONS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Procedure is a subprogram which consists of a set of sql statement. Procedures are not very different from functions. A procedure or function is a logically grouped set of SQL and PL/SQL statements that perform a specific task. A stored procedure or function is a named pl/sql code block that have been compiled and stored in one of the oracle engines's system tables. To make a procedure or function dynamic either of them can be passed parameters before execution. A procedure or function can then change the way it works depending upon the parameters passed prior to its execution. Procedures and function are made up of a declarative part, an executable part and an optional exceptionhandling part A declaration part consists of declarations of variables. A executable part consists of the logic i.e. sql statements....and exception handling part handles any error during run-time The oracle engine performs the following steps to execute a procedure or function....Verifies user access, Verifies procedure or funtion validity and executes the procedure or function. Some of the advantages of using procedures and functions are: security, performance, memory allocation, productivity, integrity. Most important the difference between procedures and functions: A function must return a value back to the caller. A function can return only one value to the calling pl/sql block. By defining multiple out parameters

in a procedure, multiple values can be passed to the caller. The out variable being global by nature, its value is accessible by any pl/sql code block including the calling pl/sql block. Syntax for stored procedure: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE [schema] procedure name (argument {IN, OUT, IN OUT} data type, ..) {IS, AS} variable declarations; constant declarations; BEGIN pl/sql subprogram body; EXCEPTION exception pl/sql block; END; Syntax for stored function: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION[schema] functionname(argument IN data type, ..) RETURN data type {IS, AS} variable declarations; constant declarations; BEGIN pl/sql subprogram body; EXCEPTION exception pl/sql block; END; The above syntax i think is self explainatory...but i will give u some details...IN : specifies that a value for the argument must be specified when calling the procedure or function. argument : is the name of an argument to the procedure or function. parentheses can be omitted if no arguments are present. OUT : specifies that the procedure passes a value for this argument back to its calling environment after execution. IN OUT : specifies that a value for the argument must be specified when calling the procedure and that the procedure passes a value for this argument back to its calling environment after execution. By default it takes IN. Data type : is the data type of an argument. PROCEDURE USING NO ARGUMENT..AND USING CURSOR CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE P2 IS cursor cur1 is select * from emp; begin for erec in cur1 loop dbms_output.put_line(erec.ename); end loop; end; PROCEDURE USING ARGUMENT CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE ME( X IN NUMBER) IS BEGIN dbms_output.put_line(x*x); end; sql> exec me(3);
Oracle Practice Programs - 2

FUNCTION using argument CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION RMT(X IN NUMBER) RETURN NUMBER IS BEGIN dbms_output.put_line(x*x); --return (x*x); end; (make a block like this to run it.....) begin dbms_output.put_line(rmt(3)); end; CREATE A PROCEDURE THAT DELETE ROWS FROM ENQUIRY WHICH ARE 1 YRS BEFORE Create or replace procedure myprocedure is begin delete from enquiry where YEAR(enquirydate) <= YEAR(sysdate) - 1; end; CREATE A PROCEDURE THAT TAKES ARGUMENT STUDENT NAME AND FIND OUT FEES PAID BY THAT STUDENT CREATE or REPLACE procedure me (namee in varchar) is cursor c1 is select a.feespaiddate from feespaid a, enrollment b, enquiry c where c.enquiryno = b.enquiryno and a.rollno = b.rollno and c.fname = namee; begin for erec in c1 loop dbms_output.put_line(erec.feespaiddate); end loop; end; SUM OF 2 NOS CREATE or replace procedure p1 is Declare a number; b number; c number; Begin a:=50; b:=89; c:=a+b; dbms_output.put_line('Sum of '||a||' and '||b||' is '||c); End; DELETION PROCEDURE create or replace procedure myproc is begin delete from enquiry where fname='somdutt'; end; IN and OUT procedure example Create or replace procedure lest ( a number, b out number) is

identify number; begin select ordid into identity from item where itemid = a; if identity < 1000 then b := 100; end if; end l in out parameter example Create or replace procedure sample ( a in number, b in out number) is identity number; begin select ordid, prodid into identity, b from item where itemid=a; if b<600 then b := b + 100; end if; end; now procedure is called by passing parameter declare a number; b number; begin sample(3000, b) dbms_output.put_line(1th value of b is 11 b); end ;

SIMILAR Example AS BEFORE create or replace procedure getsal( sal1 in out number) is begin select sal into sal1 from emp where empno = sal1; end ; now use the above in plsql block declare sal1 number := 7999; begin getsal(sal1); dbms_output.put_line('The employee salary is' || sal1); end ; u can make a procedure and functions similarly.....also if u wanna drop a function then use drop function functionname and for procedure use drop procedure procedurename Here is a procedure that will get the first names of the women: PROCEDURE Get_Women_names IS -- display first name of women of all ages in the People table CURSOR Get_Women IS SELECT First_Name FROM People WHERE Gender = 'F';

BEGIN FOR Get_Women_cur IN Get_Women LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Get_Women_cur.First_Name); END LOOP; END; / Here is our equal opportunity first name list: PROCEDURE Get_first_names (p_gender IN People.Gender%TYPE) IS -- display first name of men or women of all ages in the People table CURSOR Get_people IS SELECT First_Name FROM People WHERE Gender = p_gender; Gender_prefix VARCHAR2(14); BEGIN IF p_gender = 'M' THEN Gender_prefix := 'The Men Are:'; ELSE Gender_prefix := 'The Women Are:'; END IF; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(gender_prefix); FOR Get_people_cur IN Get_people LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Get_people_cur.First_Name); END LOOP; END; /

Functions Here is a procedure that will get the first names of the women: PROCEDURE Get_Women_names IS -- display first name of women of all ages in the People table CURSOR Get_Women IS SELECT First_Name FROM People WHERE Gender = 'F'; BEGIN FOR Get_Women_cur IN Get_Women LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Get_Women_cur.First_Name); END LOOP; END; / Here is our equal opportunity first name list: PROCEDURE Get_first_names (p_gender IN People.Gender%TYPE) IS -- display first name of men or women of all ages in the People table CURSOR Get_people IS SELECT First_Name FROM People WHERE Gender = p_gender; Gender_prefix VARCHAR2(14); BEGIN IF p_gender = 'M' THEN Gender_prefix := 'The Men Are:'; ELSE Gender_prefix := 'The Women Are:'; END IF; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(gender_prefix);

FOR Get_people_cur IN Get_people LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Get_people_cur.First_Name); END LOOP; END; /

Function(Definition)

A function is a logically grouped set of SQL and PL/SQL statements that perform a specific task. Function is a named pl/sql code block that have been compiled and stored in one of the oracle engines's system tables. To make function dynamic parameters can be passed before execution. A function can then change the way it works depending upon the parameters passed prior to its execution. Function is made up of a declarative part, an executable part and an optional exception-handling part. Most important the difference between procedures and functions: ========================================== A function must return a value back to the caller. A function can return only one value to the calling pl/sql block. By defining multiple out parameters in a procedure, multiple values can be passed to the caller. Syntax for stored function: ============================= CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION functionname(argument datatype, ..) RETURN datatype IS variable declarations; BEGIN pl/sql subprogram body; EXCEPTION exception pl/sql block; END; / Creating a function: ================== Function to display salary of employees based on empno. create or replace function f1(mempno number) return number is msal number(5); BEGIN select salary into msal from emp where empno=mempno; return(msal); END; / Calling a Function: ================= BEGIN dbms_output.put_line(f1(4)); END; / CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION RMT(X NUMBER) RETURN NUMBER IS BEGIN dbms_output.put_line(x*x);

return (x*x); END; / Function to update salary by 5000 based on empno create or replace function f2(mempno number) return number is msal number(5); Begin select salary into msal from emp where empno=mempno; msal:=msal+5000; update emp set salary=msal where empno=mempno; return (msal); END; / Function to display the day based on the choice create or replace function f3(mday number) return varchar is display varchar(10); BEGIN if mday=1 then display:='Sunday'; elsif mday=2 then display:='Monday'; elsif mday=3 then display:='Tuesday'; elsif mday=4 then display:='Wednesday'; elsif mday=5 then display:='Thursday'; elsif mday=6 then display:='Friday'; elsif mday=7 then display:='Saturday'; end if; return(display); END; /

Triggers Trigger contains PL/SQL code which gets executed when any event occurs in the table. E,g; INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. TRIGGERS Trigger is a stored procedure which is called implicitly by oracle engine whenever a insert, update or delete statement is fired. Advantages of database triggers: ---> Data is generated on it's own

---> ---> ---> ---> etc..

Replicate table can be maintained To enforce complex integrity contraints To edit data modifications To autoincrement a field

Trigger always has an action associated with it. Trigger gets fired automatically when any event occurs. Hence, a user need not to execute the Trigger code explicitly. Trigger is always transparent to the user. A table can have many triggers associated with it. In order to create triggers on a table, a user should have the Create Trigger privelege. if not so , then DBA can issue the following command to give the privelege. SQL>GRANT CREATE TRIGGER TO USER; Triggers are more powerful than any referential integrity Constraints. Triggers can be used to enforce business rules. Trigger can't include Transaction Processing Statements. (commit, rollback, savepoint) Only one trigger is possible for any type of DML statement.(INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) per table Syntax: ======= CREATE [OR REPLACE] TRIGGER triggername [before | after] [delete | Update | insert ] ON Table [For each row] [when condition] Pl/sql block Replace option retains the trigger permissions in order to drop and re-create a trigger with the same name. before means trigger will fire before any DML statment after means trigger will fire after any DML statment For each row option creates a trigger that will be fired once for each row that is updated. This type of trigger is called ROW LEVEL TRIGGER. if for each row is ommited, then trigger is executed once for that statement. (STATEMENT LEVEL TRIGGER) When - This condition can be specified to further restrict the trigger is executed. Restrictions may include the checks for old and new values. Example: For Each Row when(old.fees>300) begin .........pl/sql statement. "Creating Triggers" ---------------------------Trigger to restrict users if they try to delete any record from the emp table create or replace trigger del_trigger_emp after delete on emp

for each row begin raise_application_error(-20005,'Sorry cant delete the record'); end; /

Trigger to restrict users to make any changes to emp table create or replace trigger trigger_emp after delete or insert or update on emp for each row begin raise_application_error(-20005,'Sorry , you are not allowed to any changes to the table'); end; / Trigger to update column data after insert or delete statement create or replace trigger trigger_total_subjects before insert or update on subjects for each row begin :new.total:= :new.eng + :new.maths; dbms_output.put_line('Total column updated successfully'); end; / Trigger to change the case of letters when any updation or insertion takes place in emp Create or replace trigger change_case_ename before insert or update on emp for each row begin :New.ename := upper(:New.ename); :new.desig:=initcap(:new.desig); end; / Trigger to show the previous, latest and difference in salary after updating emp table create or replace trigger sal_update_trigger after update on emp for each row declare sal_diff number(5); Begin sal_diff := :new.salary - :old.salary; dbms_output.put_line('the old salary is ' || :old.salary); dbms_output.put_line('the new salary is ' || :new.salary); dbms_output.put_line('the difference in salary is ' || sal_diff); End;

Trigger to insert data in updations table whenever any update takes place in EMP table CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER T1 BEFORE update on emp for each row begin insert into updations values(:old.empno, :old.ename, :old.salary, :old.desig,:old.doj); end; / A database trigger that allows changes to employee table only during the business hours(i.e. from 10 a.m --to 5.00 p.m.) There is no restriction on viewing data from the table CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER Time_Check BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON EMP BEGIN IF TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'hh24')) < 10 OR TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'hh24')) >= 17 OR THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20004,'YOU CAN ACCESS ONLY BETWEEN 10 AM TO 5PM ONLY.'); END IF; END; /

To STICK IN SAL FIELD BY TRIGGER MEANS WHEN U ENTER GREATER THAN 5000, THEN THIS TRIGGER IS EXECUTED Create or replace trigger check_sal before insert on emp for each row when (New.sal > 5000); begin raise_application_error(-20000, 'your salary is greater than 5000'); end; / Trigger to insert sysdate into the tran_table when any insertion occurs in test table create or replace trigger insert_date_trigger after insert on test for each row declare systemdate char(12); begin systemdate := to_char(sysdate); insert into tran_table (trandate,confirmation) values(systemdate,'Transcation done on this date');

end; / Trigger to insert data in tran table whenever any record is upated, deleted or inserted in emp table CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trigger1 after insert or update or delete on emp for each row declare sdate char(12); begin sdate :=to_char(sysdate); if updating then insert into tran values(sdate,'updating'); elsif inserting then insert into tran values(sdate,'inserting'); elsif deleting then insert into tran values(sdate,'deleting'); end if; end; / "Dropping Triggers" sql>Drop trigger triggername; Drop command drops the trigger definition along with its associated permissions. "Disabling Triggers" Alter Trigger Triggername Disable; sql>Alter trigger trigg1 disable; Disabling all the triggers associated with a table sql>alter table emp disable all triggers; Enabling Triggers sql> alter trigger trigg1 enable; Enabling triggers on the table level sql>alter table emp enable all triggers; How to view the information about triggers: SQL>select * From user_objects where object_type='TRIGGER'; SQL>select OBJECT_NAME,OBJECT_TYPE From user_objects where object_type='TRIGGER';

INVERTING A NUMBER 5639 TO 9365 Declare given_number varchar(5) := '&enterno'; str_length number(2); inverted_number varchar(5); Begin str_length := length(given_number); For cntr in reverse 1..str_length loop inverted_number := inverted_number || substr(given_number, cntr, 1); end loop; dbms_output.put_line('The Given no is ' || given_number); dbms_output.put_line('The inverted number is ' || inverted_number); end; / SUM OF 100 NUMBERS Declare a number; s1 number default 0; Begin a:=1; loop s1:=s1+a; exit when (a=100); a:=a+1; end loop; dbms_output.put_line('Sum between 1 to 100 is '||s1); End; / CALCULATION OF NET SALARY declare basic number; da number; hra number; pf number; netsalary number; begin basic:=&basic; da:=basic * (41/100); hra:=basic * (15/100); if (basic < 3000) then

pf:=basic * (5/100); elsif (basic >= 3000 and basic <= 5000) then pf:=basic * (7/100); elsif (basic >= 5000 and basic <= 8000) then pf:=basic * (8/100); else pf:=basic * (10/100); end if; netsalary:=basic + da + hra -pf; dbms_output.put_line('Providend Fund : ' || pf); dbms_output.put_line('Net salary : ' || netsalary); end; / EXCEPTION HANDLING Errors in pl/sql block can be handled...error handling refers to the way we handle the errors in pl/sql block so that no crashing stuff of code takes place...This is exactly the same as we do in C++ or java. There are two type: 1. Pre-defined exceptions 2. User defined exceptions

Examples predefined exceptions: No_data_found Curso_already_open Storage_error Program_error Zero_divide invalid_cursor Login_denied Invalid_number Too_many_rows == when no rows are returned == when a cursor is opened in advance == if memory is damaged == internal problem in pl/sql == divide by zero == if a cursor is not open and u r trying to close it == invalid user name or password == if u r inserting a string datatype for a number datatype which isalready declared == if more rows r returned by select statement

SYNTAX begin sequence of statements; exception when --exception name then sequence of statements; end; When there is no data returned by row declare price item.actualprice%type; begin Select actual price into price from item where qty=888; Exception when no_data_found then

dbms_output.put_line('item missing'); end; / EXAMPLE OF USER DEFINED EXCEPTION DECLARE e_rec emp%ROWTYPE; e1 EXCEPTION; sal1 emp.salary%TYPE; BEGIN SELECT salary INTO sal1 FROM emp WHERE ename = 'aarif'; if sal1 < 5000 THEN RAISE e1; sal1:= 8500; UPDATE emp SET salary = sal1 WHERE ename = 'aarif'; END IF; EXCEPTION WHEN no_data_found THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR ( -20001,'aarif is not there.'); WHEN e1 THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20002, 'Less Salary.'); END; / EXAMPLE OF RAISE-APPLICATION-ERROR... THIS IS YOUR OWN ERROR --STATEMENT...U RAISE YOUR OWN ERROR Declare s1 emp.sal %type; begin select sal into s1 from emp where ename='Sam'; if(no_data_found) then raise_application_error(20001, 'sam is not there'); end if; if(s1 > 10000) then raise_application_error(20002, 'sam is earing a lot'); end if; update emp set sal=sal+500 where ename='Sam'; end; / INTERESTING Example OF USER DEFINED EXCEPTIONS Declare zero-price exception; price number(8); begin select actualprice into price from item where ordid =400; if price=0 or price is null then raise zero-price; end if; exception when zero-price then

dbms_output.put_line('raised xero-price exception'); end; / Creating Types in Oracle create or replace type animal_type as object (breed varchar(20), Name varchar(30), birthdate date, member function Age(birthdate in date) return number, pragma restrict_references(age,WNDS)); / create table zoo_inventory (section varchar(30), animal animal_type); / create or replace type body animal_type as member function Age(birthdate date) return number is begin return round(sysdate-birthdate); end; end; / insert into zoo_inventory values('shephard',animal_type('aust','sheep','12-dec-89')) CREATING ABSTRACT DATATYPES: ============================== CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE typename as OBJECT (col1 datatype(size), col2 datatype, col3 dataype)

Creating an Abstract Datatype Create or replace type book_details_type as OBJECT (author varchar(20), edition number, PrintDate date, Price number); / Using an Abstract datatype in table creation Create or replace Type book_name_type as OBJECT (bookname varchar(30), details book_details_type);

/ Getting the details about Abstract datatype select attr_name,length,attr_type_name from user_type_attrs where type_name='BOOK_DETAILS_TYPE'; / Creating a Relational-object table using abstract datatype Create Table books (bookcode number, name book_name_type); / Inserting records in Relational-object table INSERT INTO books VALUES(101,book_name_type('Oracle', book_details_type('sam',1,'12-dec-02',4000))); INSERT INTO books VALUES(102,book_name_type('Access', book_details_type('TataMc',3,'2-apr-02',5000))); INSERT INTO books VALUES(103,book_name_type('SQLserver', book_details_type('Sybex',2,'3-jun-03',6000))); INSERT INTO books VALUES(104,book_name_type('MsOffice', book_details_type('Anthony',1,'12-dec-02',2000)));

Displaying Data from the Relational-object table select books.name from books; Example 2: ---------------create or replace type details_type as object (job varchar(20),mgr number,hiredate date,sal number,comm number,deptno number); / create or replace type ename_type as object (ename varchar(20),details details_type); / select attr_name,length,attr_type_name from user_type_attrs where type_name='DETAILS_TYPE'; CREATE TABLE EMP1(EMPNO NUMBER,ENAME ENAME_TYPE); INSERT INTO EMP1 VALUES(1,ENAME_TYPE('JAMES', DETAILS_TYPE('MGR',NULL,'3-AUG-02',3000,NULL,20)));

INSERT INTO EMP1 VALUES(2,ENAME_TYPE('Julius', DETAILS_TYPE('Faculty',NULL,'4-AUG-02',2000,NULL,10))); INSERT INTO EMP1 VALUES(3,ENAME_TYPE('Paul', DETAILS_TYpe('Admin',NULL,'3-apr-02',4000,NULL,20))); Packages A package consists of the specification section, where we declare variables, tables and procedures, followed by a package body, where we actually build the procedures. In our example we'll only have one such procedure, but as we said before, we try to put birds of a feather in one cage, and procedures of the same ilk in the same package. We need an array (table) to hold the first names. To declare a table, we have to first define a user type: TYPE table_name IS TABLE OF variable_type INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER; Here is the first names table: TYPE tbl_fnames IS TABLE OF people.first_name%TYPE INDEX BY BINARY INTEGER; The table is declared in the specification section of the package. In the code below I use the term AS. This is the ADA equivalent of IS. You may use either in PL/SQL. They are the same: PACKAGE Human_Resources AS -- we tell the package that we use a table and which procedure to expect. TYPE tbl_fnames IS TABLE OF people.first_name%TYPE INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER; PROCEDURE first_names (p_gender IN people.gender%TYPE, fname OUT tbl_fnames); END Human_Resources; -- it is nice to know what we have ended In SQL*PLUS we create or replace the package by doing a CREATE OR REPLACE, and following it by pasting the code. We then type a slash (/) and press enter. Now it is time to build the package body: PACKAGE BODY Human_Resources IS PROCEDURE first_names (p_gender IN people.gender%TYPE, fname OUT tbl_fnames) IS CURSOR Get_people IS SELECT first_name from PEOPLE WHERE Gender = p_gender; table_index NUMBER := 1; BEGIN FOR Get_people_cur IN Get_people LOOP fname (table_index) := Get_people_cur.first_name; table_index := table_index + 1; END LOOP; END;

END; /
CREATION
create or replace type supertype as object(A number, B number, member procedure disp, member function MF1( x number, y number) return number) not final;

DEFINITION:
create or replace type body supertype as member procedure disp as begin dbms_output.put_line ('A='||A||'B='||B); end; member function MF1(x number,y number) return number as begin return x+y; end; end;

DESC SUBTYPE
create or replace type subtype under supertype (overriding member procedure disp, overriding member function MF1( x number,y number) return number);

BODY OF SUBTYPE
create or replace type body subtype as overriding member procedure disp as begin dbms_output.put_line('B='||B||'A='||A); end; overriding member function MF1(x number, y number) return number as begin return x*y; end; end;

CALLING THE FUNCTIONS

declare sup1 sup_type; sub1 sub_type; P number; Q number; begin sup1:=super type(10,20); sub1:=super type(10,20); sup1.disp; sub1.disp; P:=sup1.MF1(10,20); Q:=sub1.MF1(10,20); dbms_output.put_line('super type value'||P); dbms_output.put_line('super type value'||Q); end;

/*RETRIEVING THE FIRST 8 RECORDS OF THE EMP_DUP TABLE BY USING THE CURSORS*/
declare cursor emp_cursor is select empno,ename from emp_dup; r emp_cursor%rowtype; begin open emp_cursor; loop fetch emp_cursor into r; dbms_output.put_line('THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS WAS'||r.empno||r.ename); exit when emp_cursor%rowcount>=8; end loop; close emp_cursor; end;

/*RETRIEVING THE DETAILS OF THE EMPLOYEES WHOSE DEPARTMENT WAS 20 USING THE CURSORS*/
declare cursor dept_cursor is select * from emp_dup where deptno=20; r emp_dup%rowtype; begin open dept_cursor; loop fetch dept_cursor into r; dbms_output.put_line('THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS FOR DEPT20 WAS'||r.empno||' ' ||r.ename||' '||r.job||' '||r.sal||r.deptno); exit when dept_cursor%rowcount>=5; end loop; close dept_cursor; end;

/*RETRIEVING THE FIRST 10 RECORD OF THE EMPLOYEE TABLE USING CURSORS*/

declare cursor emp_10 is select empno,ename from emp_dup; r emp_10%rowtype; begin open emp_10; loop fetch emp_10 into r; dbms_output.put_line('THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS WAS'||r.empno||' '||r.ename); exit when emp_10%rowcount>=10; end loop; dbms_output.put_line('THE NO OF RECORDS DISPLAYED ARE'||emp_10%rowcount); close emp_10; end;

/*RETRIEVING THE EMPLOYEE NUMBER AND NAME OF THE EMPLOYEE TABLE AND INSERTING INTO TEMP_LIST TABLE BY USING CURORS AND RECORDS*/
declare cursor temp_insert is select empno,ename from emp_dup; emp_record temp_insert%rowtype; begin open temp_insert; loop fetch temp_insert into emp_record; exit when temp_insert%notfound; insert into temp_list(empid,tname) values(emp_record.empno,emp_record.ename); end loop; close temp_insert; end;

/*RETRIEVING THE EMPLOYEE RECORDS FOR DEPARTMENT 20 USING CURSOR FOR LOOPS*/
declare cursor emp_cur is select deptno,ename from emp_dup where deptno=20; begin for emp_record in emp_cur loop dbms_output.put_line('THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS WAS'||emp_record.deptno||' '||emp_record.ename); exit when emp_cur%notfound; end loop; end;

/*RETRIEVING THE EMPLOYEE RECORDS FOR DEPARTMENT 20 USING CURSOR FOR LOOP SUBQUERY*/
begin for emp_rec in (select empno,ename,job,deptno from emp_dup where deptno=20) loop dbms_output.put_line('THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS WAS'||emp_rec.empno||' ' ||emp_rec.ename||' '||emp_rec.job||' '||emp_rec.deptno); exit when sql%notfound; end loop; end;

/*RETRIEVING THE FIRST FIVE EMPLOYEES WITH A JOB HISTORY*/

declare cursor emp_job is select * from emp_dup; r emp_job%rowtype; begin open emp_job; loop fetch emp_job into r; dbms_output.put_line('EMPLOYEE #:'||r.empno||'held the job of' ||r.job||'from'||r.hiredate); exit when emp_job%rowcount>5; end loop; close emp_job; end; /*a)FIRSTLY CREATE A TOP_DOGS TABLE WITH SALARY AS COLUMN b)USE THE DEFINE COMMAND TO PROVIDE THE VALUE OF n FOR DISPLAYING THETOP EARNERS(n) OF THE COMPANY c)IN A LOOP USE THE iSQL*PLUS SUBSTITUTION PARAMETER CREATED AND GATHER THE SALARIES OF THE TOP n PEOPLE FROM THE EMPLOYEES TABLE.THERE SHOULD BE NO DUPLICATION IN THE SALARIES.IF THE TWO EMPLOYEES EARN THE SAME SALARY,THE SALARY SHOULD BE PICKED UP ONLY ONCE d)STORE THE SALARIES IN THE TOP_DOGS TABLE*/ declare cursor emp_sal is select distinct sal from emp_dup order by sal desc; r emp_dup.sal%type; begin open emp_sal; loop fetch emp_sal into r; dbms_output.put_line('THE TOP SALARY WISE'||r); insert into top_dogs(salary) values(r); exit when emp_sal%rowcount>&order_sal; end loop; close emp_sal; end;

/*UPDATING THE SALARY FOR 10% THOSE SALARIES ARE LESS THAN 3000 BY USING "UPDATE OF" CLAUSE AND WHERE "CURRENT OF" IN THE CURSORS*/
declare cursor upd_curr is select e.empno,e.ename,e.job,e.sal, d.deptno,d.loc,d.dname from emp e,dept d where e.deptno=d.deptno and d.deptno=30 for update of sal NOWAIT; begin for emp_rec in upd_curr loop if emp_rec.sal<3000 then update emp set sal=emp_rec.sal*1.10 where current of upd_curr; end if; end loop; end;

/*FOR GETTING INTO THE DISPLAY OF THE DEPT AND EMP TABLES TOGETHER*/
declare cursor emp_dept is select d.deptno,d.dname,e.ename,e.job, e.hiredate,e.sal from emp e,dept_id d where e.deptno=d.deptno; begin for emp_record in emp_dept loop if emp_record.deptno <>30 then dbms_output.put_line('departmentnumber:'||emp_record.deptno|| 'department name'||emp_record.dname); end if; end loop; for emp_record in emp_dept loop if emp_record.deptno<>30 then dbms_output.put_line(emp_record.ename||emp_record.job||emp_record. hiredate ||emp_record.sal); end if; end loop; for emp_record in emp_dept loop if emp_record.deptno=30 then dbms_output.put_line('departmentnumber:'||emp_record.deptno|| 'department name'||emp_record.dname); end if; end loop; for emp_record in emp_dept loop if emp_record.deptno=30 then dbms_output.put_line(emp_record.ename||emp_record.job||emp_record. hiredate||emp_record.sal); end if; end loop; end;

/*ANOTHER TYPE OF THE SAME ABOVE PROBLEM*/

declare cursor emp_dept is select distinct d.deptno,d.dname,e.ename,e.job, e.hiredate,e.sal from emp e,dept_id d where e.deptno=d.deptno; a dept_id.deptno%type; b dept_id.dname%type; begin select d.deptno,d.dname into a,b from dept_id d where deptno =10; dbms_output.put_line('departmentnumber:'||a|| 'department name'||b);

select d.deptno,d.dname into a,b from dept_id d where deptno =20; dbms_output.put_line('departmentnumber:'||a|| 'department name'||b); for emp_record in emp_dept loop if emp_record.deptno<>30 then dbms_output.put_line(emp_record.ename||emp_record.job||emp_record. hiredate||emp_record.sal); end if; end loop; select d.deptno,d.dname into a,b from dept_id d where deptno =30; dbms_output.put_line('departmentnumber:'||a|| 'department name'||b); for emp_record in emp_dept loop if emp_record.deptno=30 then dbms_output.put_line(emp_record.ename||emp_record.job||emp_record. hiredate||emp_record.sal); end if; end loop; end;

/*DISPLAYING THE TOP TEN EARNERS OF THE COMPANY BY USING THE CURSORS*/
declare cursor emp_cur is select * from emp order by sal; cur emp_dup%rowtype; begin open emp_cur; loop fetch emp_cur into cur; if emp_cur%found then dbms_output.put_line('THE TOP TEN EARNERS OF THE EMPLOYEE TABLE WAS'||cur.ename||cur.sal ||cur.job||cur.deptno); end if; exit when emp_cur%rowcount=10; end loop; close emp_cur; end;

/*UPDATING THE SALARIES BY USING THE CURSORS ACCORDING TO THE JOB-WISE*/

declare cursor emp_upd is select * from emp_dup where deptno=20; upd emp_upd%rowtype; begin open emp_upd; loop fetch emp_upd into upd; if upd.sal<2000 and upd.job='CLERK' then delete from emp_dup where SAL<2000 AND JOB='CLERK' AND DEPTNO=20; elsif upd.job='MANAGER' then upd.sal:=upd.sal+upd.sal*0.15; update emp_dup set sal=upd.sal where deptno=20; elsif upd.job='CLERK' then upd.sal:=upd.sal+upd.sal*0.01; update emp_dup set sal=upd.sal where deptno=20; /*else upd.sal:=upd.sal+100; update emp_dup set sal=upd.sal where deptno=20;*/ end if; exit when emp_upd%notfound;

end loop; /* if upd.sal<4040 then delete from emp_dup where deptno=20; end if; */ close emp_upd; end; declare cursor emp_cur is select deptno,min(sal) "minimum" from emp group by deptno; begin for m in emp_cur loop dbms_output.put_line('the deptno and their minimum salaries was'|| m.deptno||m.minimum); end loop; close emp_cur; end;

4)declare cursor emp_print is select * from emp_dup; c emp_print%rowtype; begin open emp_print; loop fetch emp_print into c; if emp_print%found then dbms_output.put_line('THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS ARE'||c.empno||' '||c.sal||' '||c.deptno); end if; exit when emp_print%notfound; end loop; end;

/*THE FOLLOWING PL/SQL CODE DISPLAYS THE DETAILS OF EMPLOYEES BELONGING TO DEPARTMENT NO10 GETTING SALARY=4000 AND STORES THE DETAILS OF EMPLOYEES BELONGING TO DEPARTMENT NO30 AND GETTING SALARY=4000 IN THE TEMP TABLE*/
declare cursor emp_insert is select empno,ename,sal,deptno from emp_dup where deptno=20 and sal=4000; c1 emp_insert%rowtype; begin open emp_insert; loop fetch emp_insert into c1; insert into temp; values(c1.empno,c1.ename,c1.sal,30); exit when emp_insert%notfound; end loop; close emp_insert; end;

/*THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM DISPLAYS THE NAME OF THAT MANAGER WHO HAS JOINED THE ORGANIZATION IN THE YEAR 1981.IF THERE IS NO OUTPUT OR IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE OUTPUT THEN INSTEAD OF GIVING ERROR THE PROGRAMM WILL GIVE PROPER MESSAGE*/
declare v_ename varchar2(15); v_job varchar2(15):='MANAGER'; begin select ename,job into v_ename,v_job from emp_dup where hiredate like '%81' and job=v_job; dbms_output.put_line('THE JOB AND HIS NAME WAS'||v_ename||v_job);

exception when no_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('NO SUCH EMPLOYEE WAS HIRED IN 81'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('MORE THAN ONE EMPLOYEE WAS HIRED IN 81'); end; create or replace type vtype1 as object(pno varchar2(20),pdesc varchar2(20),udm number,price number); create or replace type vendor1 as table of vtype1; create table vendor_master (ven_code varchar2(20),ven_name varchar2(20) ,prod_details vendor1)nested table prod_details tore as vtemp; insert into vendor_master values('v001','HCL',vendor1 ( vtype1('p001','XYZ',5,100), vtype1('p002','ABC', 6,150), vtype1('p003','PQR',7,200) ));

insert into vendor_master values('v002','WIPRO',vendor1 ( vtype1('p004','XYZ',5,100), vtype1('p005', 'ABC',6,150), vtype1('p006','PQR',7,200) ));

About Explicit/Implicit Conversion in Oracle Explicit Conversion Oracle has provided built-in functions to use for converting one datatype to another. The most commonly used conversion functions are the TO_DATE function, which allows you to convert a CHAR value to a DATE value, and the TO_CHAR function, which allows you to convert from a CHAR value to a DATE value. An explicit conversion occurs when you compare a DATE value to a CHAR value and use the function A Word of Caution about Implicit Conversion It has always been bad practice to rely on implicit conversions because it can result in poor performance. TO_DATE or TO_CHAR to convert the DATE into a CHAR or the CHAR into a DATE. The following example shows how to accomplish this conversion: Select count(1) From pa_projects_all Where start_date >= to_date(01 -JAN-2000,DD-MON-YYYY) AND completion_date <= to_date(01-JAN-2001,DD-MON-YYYY) / This converts the values 01-JAN-2000 and 01-JAN-2001 into a DATE datatype of format ddmon-yyyy and compares it to the value of the start_date column. If a match is made, then th e counter is incremented and the results will show how many rows exist that meet the criteria. Implicit Conversion When you create code that requires conversion of datatypes and you do not use the conversion function, PL/SQL attempts to convert the datatype of a value implicitly. With this feature, you can use literals, variables, and parameters of one datatype while another datatype is expected. In order to accomplish an implicit conversion, you need only compare one datatype to another. The following two examples accomplish the same task and return the same results, though one is an explicit conversion and the other is implicit. First, the explicit conversion example: Select count(1) From pa_projects_all Where start_date >= to_date(01-JAN-2000,DD-MON-YYYY) AND completion_date <= to_date(01-JAN-2001,DD-MON-YYYY) / COUNT(1)

--------958 The result in this case is the number of projects that started on or before January 1, 2000, and have a completion date on or before the January 1, 2001. As you can see, we actually converted one of the dates and left the other as a CHAR. The implicit conversion yields the same result, as follows: SELECT count(1) FROM pa_projects_all WHERE start_date >= 01 -JAN-2000 AND completion_date <= 01-JAN-2001 / COUNT(1) --------958 You can see here that Oracle will convert the data implicitly or allow you to convert the data yourself. Both scenarios return the same results. It is your responsibility to ensure that values are convertible. For instance, PL/SQL can convert the CHAR value 01 -JAN-2000 to a DATE value, but it cannot convert the CHAR value TOMORROW to a DATE value. Similarly, PL/SQL cannot convert a VARCHAR2 value containing alphabetic characters to a NUMBER value.

1)/*DISPLAYING THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS BY USING PROCEDURE*/

create or replace procedure proc_emp_details(eno in number) as e emp%rowtype; begin select * into e from emp_dup where empno=eno; dbms_output.put_line('THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS WAS'||' '||e.empno||' '|| e.ename||' '||e.sal||' '||e.job||' '||e.deptno); exception when no_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('NO SUCH EMPLOYEE EXISTS'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('MORE THAN ONE EMPLOYEE EXISTS'); end proc_emp_details; SQL> execute proc_emp_details(7900);

2)/*DISPLAYING THE NAME AND UPDATED SALARY WHEN THE EMPLOYEE NUMBER HAS BEEN ENTERED AND IT HAS BEEN DONE BY MEANS OF A PROCEDURE*/
create or replace procedure proc_in_out(eno in number,name out varchar2,salary out number) as e emp%rowtype; begin select * into e from emp_dup where empno=eno; if e.job='MANAGER' then e.sal:=e.sal+1000; update emp_dup set sal=e.sal where empno=eno; elsif e.job='CLERK' then e.sal:=e.sal+500; update emp_dup set sal=e.sal where empno=eno; else e.sal:=e.sal+800; update emp_dup set sal=e.sal where empno=eno; end if; name:=e.ename; salary:=e.sal; end proc_in_out; SQL> variable enam varchar2(30) SQL> variable esal number SQL> execute proc_in_out(7900,:enam,:esal);

SQL> print enam; SQL> print esal;

3)/*BY USING PROCEDURE INVOKING THE UPDATED SALARY AND EMPLOYEE NAME BY GIVING THE UPDATED SALARY AS OUT PARAMETER IN WHICH BY SIMPLY GIVING THE EMPLOYEE NUMBER*/
create or replace procedure proc_in_out1(eno in number,name out varchar2,salary in number,saly out number) as e emp%rowtype; begin select * into e from emp where empno=eno; if e.job ='MANAGER' then e.sal:=e.sal+salary; update emp set sal=e.sal where empno=eno; elsif e.job ='CLERK' then e.sal:=e.sal+salary; update emp set sal=e.sal where empno=eno; else e.sal:=e.sal+salary; update emp set sal=e.sal where empno=eno; end if; name:=e.ename; saly:=e.sal; exception when no_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('NO SUCH EMPLOYEE EXISTS'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('MORE THAN ONE EMPLOYEE EXISTS'); end proc_in_out1; SQL> variable enam varchar2(30) SQL> variable esal number SQL> execute proc_in_out1(7900,:enam,2000,:esal); SQL> print enam; SQL> print esal;

4)/*INCREASING THE SALARY BY 10% ACCORDING TO THE EMPLOYEE ID HAS BEEN PASSED*/
create or replace procedure raise_sal(empid number) as r emp_dup%rowtype; salary number; begin select * into r from emp_dup where empno=empid; salary:=r.sal*1.10; update emp_dup set sal=salary where empno=empid; dbms_output.put_line('THE UPDATED SALARY WAS'||salary); exception when no_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('THERE WAS NO SUCH EMPLOYEE_ID EXISTS'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('MORE THAN ONE EMPLOYEE EXISTS FOR THE SAME EMPLOYEE_ID'); end; SQL> execute raise_sal(7369);

5)/*THE PROCEDURE HAS FOUR FORMAL PARAMETERS,ONE OF WHICH WAS IN PARAMETER AND THE OTHER THREE ARE OUT PARAMETERS*/
create or replace procedure proc_in_out(empid in number,name out varchar2,esal out number,ecomm out number) as begin select ename,sal,comm into name,esal,ecomm from emp_dup where empno=empid; dbms_output.put_line('THE EMPLOYEE DETAILS WAS'||' '|| name||' '||esal||' '||ecomm); exception when no_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('THERE WAS NO SUCH EMPLOYEE EXISTS'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('MORE THAN ONE EMPLOYEE EXISTS FOR THE SAME EMPLOYEEID'); end proc_in_out; SQL> variable salary number SQL> variable namely varchar2(30) SQL> variable commission number SQL> execute proc_in_out(7369,:namely,:salary,:commission); SQL> print namely SQL> print salary SQL> print commission

6)/*CREATING THE PROCEDURES WITH DEFAULT VALUES*/

create or replace procedure proc_dept(v_deptno in number default 60,v_dname in varchar2 default 'unknown',v_loc in varchar2 default 'HYD') as begin insert into dept values(v_deptno,v_dname,v_loc); end proc_dept; SQL> execute proc_dept; SQL> select * from dept; SQL> execute proc_dept(50,'credit'); SQL> select * from dept; SQL> execute proc_dept(70,'debit','delhi'); SQL> select * from dept;

7)/*DECLARING THE SUBPROGRAMM AND GET EXECUTED IN THE PROCEDURE a) THE SUBPROGRAMM INSERT THE VALUES INTO THE LOG_TABLES b) THE PROCEDURE DELETES THE EMPLOYEE TABLE BY PASSING THE EMPLOYEE NUMBER c) BOTH ACTIONS WILL BE DONE AT THE SAME TIME WHEN THE PROCEDURE GETS EXECUTED*/
create or replace procedure insert_del(empid in number) as procedure proc_insert as begin

insert into log_tables values(user,sysdate); end proc_insert; begin delete from emp_dup where empno=empid; proc_insert; end insert_del; SQL> execute insert_del(7369); SQL> select * from log_tables;

8)/*DECLARING THE PROEDURES IN AN ANONYMOUS BLOCK a)THE PROCEDURES UPDATES THE SALARY BY 10% BY PASSING THE EMPLOYEE NUMBER b)THAT PROCEDURES GETS INVOKED IN THE ANONYMOUS BLOCK*/
a)create or replace procedure raise_sal(empid number) as r emp_dup%rowtype; salary number; begin select * into r from emp_dup where empno=empid; salary:=r.sal*1.10; update emp_dup set sal=salary where empno=empid; dbms_output.put_line('THE UPDATED SALARY WAS'||salary); exception when no_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('THERE WAS NO SUCH EMPLOYEE_ID EXISTS'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('MORE THAN ONE EMPLOYEE EXISTS FOR THE SAME EMPLOYEE_ID'); end; b)declare empid number:=7499; begin aise_sal(empid); end;

9)/*INVOKING THE STORED PROCEDURE FROM A STORED PROCEDURE a) THE INVOKED PROCEURE UPDATED THE SALARY OF THE GIVEN EMPLOYEE NUMBER b) THE STORED PROCEDURE UPDATES ALL THE SALARIES OF ALL THE EMPLOYEE NUMBERS BY USING THE CURSORS IN THE STORED PROCEDURES*/
a)create or replace procedure raise_sal(empid number) as r emp_dup%rowtype; salary number; begin select * into r from emp_dup where empno=empid; salary:=r.sal*1.10; update emp_dup set sal=salary where empno=empid; dbms_output.put_line('THE UPDATED SALARY WAS'||salary); exception when no_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('THERE WAS NO SUCH EMPLOYEE_ID EXISTS'); when too_many_rows then dbms_output.put_line('MORE THAN ONE EMPLOYEE EXISTS FOR THE SAME EMPLOYEE_ID'); end; b)create or replace procedure emp_proc as cursor emp_cur is select empno,ename from emp_dup; begin for emp_rec in emp_cur loop raise_sal(emp_rec.empno); exit when emp_cur%notfound;

end loop; end emp_proc; SQL> execute emp_proc;

10)/*CREATE A NEW PROCEDURE THAT ADDS THE NEW EMPLOYEE FOR THE EMPLOYEE TABLE*/
create or replace procedure add_emp(v_empno in number,v_ename in varchar2,v_sal in number,v_job in varchar2,v_deptno in number) as begin insert into emp_dup(empno,ename,sal,job,deptno) values(v_empno,v_ename,v_sal,v_job,v_deptno); end add_emp; SQL> execute add_emp(123,'chsr',6000,'manager',50); SQL> select * from emp_dup;

11)/*UPDATING THE JOB BY PASSING THE EMPLOYEE NUMBER AS PARAMETER BY USING THE PROCEDURES*/
create or replace procedure upd_emp(v_empno in number,v_job out varchar2) as begin v_job:='president'; update emp_dup set job=v_job where empno=v_empno; end upd_emp; SQL> variable p_job varchar2(30); SQL> execute upd_emp(123,:p_job); SQL> print p_job;

12)/*CREATE A PROCEDURE FOR DELETING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE EMPLOYEE TABLE PASSING EMPNO AS IN PARAMETER*/
create or replace procedure del_emp(empid in number) as begin delete from emp_dup where empno=empid; end; SQL> execute del_emp(123); SQL> select * from emp_dup;

13)/*CREATING THE PROCEDURE SUCH THAT WHEN WE PASSING THE EMPLOYEE NUMBER AS IN PARAMETER,THE PROCDURE MUST RETURN THE CORRESPONDING SALARY AND JOB OF THAT EMPLOYEE NUMBER*/
create or replace procedure quer_emp(empid in number,v_sal out number,v_job out varchar2) as begin select sal,job into v_sal,v_job from emp_dup where empno=empid; end quer_emp; SQL> variable esal number SQL> variable ejob varchar2(30); SQL> execute quer_emp(7499,:esal,:ejob);

SQL> print esal; SQL> print ejob;

1)/*CREATE A PROCEDURE BY THE NAME INCR AND INCREASE THE SALARY OF AN EMPLOYEE,THE EMPLOYEE NUMBER AND THE AMOUNT TO BE INCREMENTED IS PASSED AS PARAMETERS*/
create or replace procedure incr(emp_id in number,amt in number) as p emp_dup%rowtype; increment_amount number; begin select * into p from emp_dup where empno=emp_id; increment_amount:=p.sal+amt; update emp_dup set sal=increment_amount where empno=emp_id; dbms_output.put_line('THE INCREMENTED AMOUNT WAS'||increment_amount); if p.sal is null then dbms_output.put_line('WE CANNOT UPDATE THE AMOUNT FOR THE EMPLOYEEID'); end if; end incr;

SQL> execute incr(7369,1000); create or replace procedure get_order_lines(order_number in number,output1 out varchar2) as cursor c2(header_id in number) is select line_number,substr(ordered_item,1,20) item, ordered_quantity,unit_selling_price from oe_order_lines_all oel where HEADER_ID = header_id; line_number number(10); ordered_item varchar2(25); ordered_qty number(10); unit_selling_price number(10); HEADER_ID NUMBER(10); begin SELECT HEADER_ID INTO HEADER_ID FROM OE_ORDEr_HEADERS_ALL WHERE ORDER_NUMBER = ORDER_NUMBER; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(HEADER_ID); open c2(HEADER_ID); loop fetch c2 into line_number,ordered_item,ordered_qty,unit_selling_price; dbms_output.put_line(line_number||' '||ordered_item||' '||ordered_qty||' '||unit_selling_price); output1:= line_number||' '||ordered_item||' '||ordered_qty||' '||unit_selling_price ; end loop; close c2; exception when no_data_found then null; end;

var t1 number; create or replace procedure get_header_id(order_number number, output2 out number) is header_id number(10); ord_number number(10); begin select order_number into ord_number from dual; select header_id into header_id from oe_order_headers_all where order_number= ord_number; dbms_output.put_line(header_id); output2 := header_id;

end; var t1 varchar2(1000); create or replace procedure get_order_lines(header_id in number,output1 out varchar2) as head_id number(10); line_number number(10); ordered_item varchar2(25); ordered_qty number(10); unit_selling_price number(10); order_amnt number(15); BEGIN select header_id into head_id from dual; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(HEAD_ID); select line_number,substr(ordered_item,1,20) item,ordered_quantity,unit_selling_price,nvl((ordered_quantity*unit_selling_price),0) Amount into line_number,ordered_item,ordered_qty,unit_selling_price,order_amnt from oe_order_lines_all where header_id = head_id ; dbms_output.put_line(line_number||' '||ordered_item||' '||ordered_qty||' '||unit_selling_price||' '||order_amnt); output1:= line_number||' '||ordered_item||' '||ordered_qty||' '||unit_selling_price||' '||order_amnt ; exception when NO_DATA_FOUND then null; end;

SQL Queries and Programs Examples Part - 2 Run these sample programs and check out the output.
Programs
declare a number; begin select sal into a FROM emp where empno = 7839; dbms_output.put_line(a); EXCEPTION when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare a emp%ROWTYPE; begin select * into a FROM emp where empno = 7839; dbms_output.put_line(a.empno||' '||a.ename||' '||a.sal); EXCEPTION when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare my_grade salgrade.grade%type; my_losal salgrade.losal%type; my_hisal salgrade.hisal%type; begin select grade, losal, hisal into my_grade,my_losal,my_hisal FROM salgrade where grade = 3; dbms_output.put_line(my_grade||' '||my_losal||' '||my_hisal); EXCEPTION when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare x number:=20; y number:=10; begin declare x number:=5; z number:=99; begin dbms_output.put_line('x='||x||' '||'y='||y||' '||'z='||z); end; dbms_output.put_line('x='||x||' '||'y='||y); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<<outer>> declare x number:=20; begin <<inner>> declare x number:=5; begin <<deep>> declare x number:=7; begin dbms_output.put_line('x='||x||' '||'Outer x='||outer.x||' '||'Inner x='||Inner.x); end; end; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare a number; begin select sal into a FROM emp where empno = 7777; dbms_output.put_line(a); EXCEPTION when NO_DATA_FOUND THEN dbms_output.put_line('Caught NDF exception'); when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end;

declare name varchar2(30):='&Name'; ct number := 1; begin loop exit when ct = 10; dbms_output.put_line(ct||' '||name); ct := ct + 1; end loop; dbms_output.put_line('Alias out of the loop!!'); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare name varchar2(30):='&Name';

ct number := 1; begin while ct <> 10 loop dbms_output.put_line(ct||' '||name); ct := ct + 1; end loop; dbms_output.put_line('Alias out of the loop!!'); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare name varchar2(30):='&Name'; begin for ct in 1..10 loop dbms_output.put_line(ct||' '||name); end loop; dbms_output.put_line('Alias out of the loop!!'); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare name varchar2(30):='&Name'; begin for ct in reverse 1..9 loop dbms_output.put_line(ct||' '||name); end loop; dbms_output.put_line('Alias out of the loop!!'); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare name varchar2(30):='&Name'; begin for ct in reverse 1..9 loop dbms_output.put_line(ct||' '||name); return; --Is equivalent of "exit" in C. end loop; dbms_output.put_line('Alias out of the loop!!'); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------begin for i in 1..5 loop for j in 1..5 loop for k in 1..5 loop exit when k = 3; dbms_output.put_line(i||' '||j||' '||k); end loop; end loop; end loop; end;

begin <<outer>> for i in 1..5

loop for j in 1..5 loop for k in 1..5 loop exit outer when k = 3; dbms_output.put_line(i||' '||j||' '||k); end loop; end loop; end loop; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------begin for i in 1..5 loop for j in 1..5 loop dbms_output.put(j*i||' '); end loop; dbms_output.put_line(' '); end loop; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------begin for i in (select * from emp) loop dbms_output.put_line(i.empno||' '||i.ename||' '||i.job); end loop; end; declare gender varchar2(1) := '&Gender'; begin if gender = 'F' then dbms_output.put_line('Hello Mam.'); elsif gender = 'M' then dbms_output.put_line('Hello Sir.'); else dbms_output.put_line('Invalid Option.'); end if; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare a number := 10; b number := 20; c number:=30; begin if a > b then if a > c then dbms_output.put_line(a||' is greatest.'); else dbms_output.put_line(c||' is greatest.'); end if; else if b > c then dbms_output.put_line(b||' is greatest.'); else dbms_output.put_line(c||' is greatest.'); end if; end if; end;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare below_cr_lt EXCEPTION; my_sal number; begin select sal into my_sal from emp where empno = 7839; if my_sal < 6000 then raise below_cr_lt; end if; exception when below_cr_lt then dbms_output.put_line('Sorry!!!'); when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end;

Select length(ename) -length(translate(ename,'1aeiouAEIOU','1')), ename from emp --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare gn number(3) := &Number_Please; lt number(2) := gn / 2; ct number(2) := 3; begin if gn = 2 or gn = 3 then goto prime; elsif mod(gn,2) = 0 then goto noprime; else while (ct <= lt) loop if mod(gn,ct) = 0 then goto noprime; end if; ct := ct + 2; end loop; goto prime; end if; <<noprime>> dbms_output.put_line(gn||' is not prime.'); goto pend; <<prime>> dbms_output.put_line(gn||' is prime.'); <<pend>> null; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare cursor c1 is select * from dept; drec dept%rowtype; begin open c1; loop fetch c1 into drec; exit when c1%NOTFOUND; dbms_output.put_line(drec.dname||' '||drec.loc||' '||drec.deptno); end loop;

close c1; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare cursor c1 is select * from dept; drec dept%rowtype; begin open c1; loop fetch c1 into drec; exit when c1%NOTFOUND; dbms_output.put_line(drec.dname||' '||drec.loc||' '||drec.deptno); end loop; close c1; dbms_output.put_line('==============================='); FOR I IN C1 LOOP dbms_output.put_line(I.dname||' '||I.loc||' '||I.deptno); END LOOP; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DECLARE CURSOR C1(D NUMBER) IS SELECT * FROM EMP WHERE DEPTNO = D; CURSOR C2 IS SELECT * FROM DEPT; BEGIN FOR I IN C2 LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('============================='); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I.DEPTNO||' '||I.DNAME||' '||I.LOC); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('============================='); FOR J IN C1(I.DEPTNO) LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(J.ENAME||' '||J.JOB||' '||J.SAL); END LOOP; END LOOP; END;

SQL Queries and Programs Examples Part - 3 Run these sample programs and check out the output.
declare tn varchar2(30) := '&Table_Name'; cn varchar2(30) := '&Column_Name'; type refCursorType is ref cursor; rcv refCursorType; str varchar2(30); val varchar2(30); begin dbms_output.put_line(cn); str := 'Select '||cn||' from '||tn; open rcv for str; loop fetch rcv into val; exit when rcv%notfound; dbms_output.put_line(val); end loop; close rcv; end; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

declare n ff.a%type; begin insert into ff(a) values(98); commit; select a into n from ff where a = 98; dbms_output.put_line(n); EXCEPTION when DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX then dbms_output.put_line('Insertion failed as such a value already exists.'); when NO_DATA_FOUND then dbms_output.put_line('No such number.'); when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare cursor c1 is select * from dept; drec dept%rowtype; begin open c1; open c1; loop fetch c1 into drec; exit when c1%notfound; dbms_output.put_line(drec.dname||' '||drec.loc||' '||drec.deptno); end loop; close c1; exception when CURSOR_ALREADY_OPEN then dbms_output.put_line('Forgot!! You have an open cursor.'); when INVALID_CURSOR then dbms_output.put_line('Hey!!! You have not opened the cursor.'); when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare cursor c1 is select * from dept; drec dept%rowtype; begin open c1; if c1%ISOPEN then dbms_output.put_line('Cursor is open.'); else dbms_output.put_line('Cursor has to be opened.'); end if; loop fetch c1 into drec; exit when c1%rowcount = 3; dbms_output.put_line(drec.dname||' '||drec.deptno); end loop; close c1; end;

declare min_bal constant number := 500; over_drawn exception;

withdrawl_amt number := 1000; mybal number; begin select bal into mybal from acct where no = 2; if mybal - withdrawl_amt < 500 then raise over_drawn; else update acct set bal = bal - withdrawl_amt where no = 2; commit; end if; exception when over_drawn then dbms_output.put_line('Sorry!! sir/madam minimum balance is Rs.500/-.'); when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------begin lock table acct in exclusive mode nowait; exception when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end; declare table_locked exception; pragma exception_init(table_locked, -00054); begin lock table acct in exclusive mode nowait; exception when table_locked then dbms_output.put_line('The table is locked. Please try after some time.'); when others then dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare cursor c1 is select * from ratio for update; rrec ratio%rowtype; begin open c1; loop fetch c1 into rrec; exit when c1%notfound; begin update ratio set r = rrec.a / rrec.b where current of c1; commit; exception when ZERO_DIVIDE then update ratio set r = 0 where current of c1; commit; end; end loop; close c1; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare no_data_found exception; n number; begin select sal into n from emp where empno = 7777;

dbms_output.put_line('Employee no 7777 is drawing'||n); exception when standard.no_data_found or no_data_found then dbms_output.put_line('Caught no data found'); when others then dbms_output.put_line('Caught others exception'); dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm(sqlcode)); end;

create or replace procedure Playwin(no in number, prize out number) as begin dbms_output.put_line('Your ticket Number is '||no); dbms_output.put_line('You have got a prize!! Keep Playing...'); prize := ((no / 3) * 24 )+ 4 ; end; declare tno number: 123456; prize number; begin playwin(tno, prize); dbms_output.put_line('You have become '||prize||' pati.'); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------create or replace function CompInt(pri in number, noy in number, roi in number) return number is ci number; begin ci := pri * power((1 + roi/100),noy); return ci; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare c number; begin c := CompInt(100,1,10); dbms_output.put_line('The compound interest = '||c); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------create or replace procedure CalTot(up number, qty number, runtot in out number) as begin runtot := runtot + (up * qty); end; declare total number := 0; HamamQ number := 7; HamamP number := 10; BaboolQ number := 3; BaboolP number := 16; HuggyQ number := 1; HuggyP number := 80; begin CalTot(HamamP, HamamQ, Total); dbms_output.put_line('Total so far (Hamam) '||Total); CalTot(BaboolP, BaboolQ, Total); dbms_output.put_line('Total so far (Hamam,Babool) '||Total); CalTot(HuggyP, HuggyQ, Total);

dbms_output.put_line('Total so far (Grand) '||Total); end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------create or replace procedure Greet(n number default 5) is begin for i in 1..n loop dbms_output.put_line('Greetings!!!'); end loop; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------begin Greet(7); end; CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY emp_actions AS -- body CURSOR desc_salary RETURN EmpRecTyp IS SELECT empno, sal FROM emp ORDER BY sal DESC; PROCEDURE hire_employee ( ename VARCHAR2, job VARCHAR2, mgr NUMBER, sal NUMBER, comm NUMBER, deptno NUMBER) IS BEGIN INSERT INTO emp VALUES (empno_seq.NEXTVAL, ename, job, mgr, SYSDATE, sal, comm, deptno); END hire_employee; PROCEDURE fire_employee (emp_id NUMBER) IS BEGIN DELETE FROM emp WHERE empno = emp_id; END fire_employee; END emp_actions;

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY emp_actions AS -- body CURSOR desc_salary RETURN EmpRecTyp IS SELECT empno, sal FROM emp ORDER BY sal DESC; PROCEDURE hire_employee ( ename VARCHAR2, job VARCHAR2, mgr NUMBER, sal NUMBER, comm NUMBER, deptno NUMBER) IS BEGIN INSERT INTO emp VALUES (empno_seq.NEXTVAL, ename, job, mgr, SYSDATE, sal, comm, deptno); END hire_employee; PROCEDURE fire_employee (emp_id NUMBER) IS BEGIN DELETE FROM emp WHERE empno = emp_id; END fire_employee; END emp_actions; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare begin emp_actions.hire_employee('Akash','Analyst',7839,4999,null,10); emp_actions.fire_employee(5); end; create or replace package body ox as function add( a number, b number ) return number is begin return (a + b); end; function add(a varchar2, b varchar2) return varchar2 is begin return a||b; end; function add(a varchar2, b number) return varchar2

is begin return a||b; end; function add(a number, b varchar2) return varchar2 is begin return a||b; end; end ox; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------create or replace package ox as function add(a number, b number) return number; function add(a varchar2, b varchar2) return varchar2; function add(a number, b varchar2) return varchar2; function add(a varchar2, b number) return varchar2; end; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------declare A NUMBER := 12345; B NUMBER := 56789; C VARCHAR2(30) := 'RAM '; D VARCHAR2(30) := ' LAKSHMAN'; RES VARCHAR2(20); RESN NUMBER; BEGIN RESN := OX.ADD(A,B); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(RESN); RES := OX.ADD(A,C); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(RES); RES := OX.ADD(D,A); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(RES); RES := OX.ADD(C, D); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(RES); END;

SQL Queries and Programs Examples Part - 4 Run these sample programs and check out the output.
DECLARE BEGIN BT.CREATE_ACCT('AHMED',5000039); FOR I IN (SELECT * FROM ACCT) LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I.ACCTNO||' '||I.NAME||' '||I.BAL); END LOOP; BT.DEPOSIT(1, 50000); FOR I IN (SELECT * FROM ACCT) LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I.ACCTNO||' '||I.NAME||' '||I.BAL); END LOOP; BT.WITHDRAWL(1, 25000); FOR I IN (SELECT * FROM ACCT) LOOP DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I.ACCTNO||' '||I.NAME||' '||I.BAL); END LOOP; END; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL> CREATE TABLE ABC(A NUMBER , B DATE);

Table created. SQL> CREATE TRIGGER 2 SQL> ED Wrote file afiedt.buf 1 CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER ABC_TR 2 BEFORE INSERT ON ABC 3 FOR EACH ROW 4 BEGIN 5 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('A REC IS BEING INSERTED.'); 6 * END; 7/ Trigger created. SQL> SET SERVEROUT ON SQL> INSERT INTO ABC(A,B) VALUES (1, SYSDATE); A REC IS BEING INSERTED. 1 row created. SQL> ED Wrote file afiedt.buf 1 CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER ABC_DEL_TR 2 AFTER DELETE ON ABC 3 BEGIN 4 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('TABLE IS BEING DELETED.'); 5 * END; SQL> / Trigger created. SQL> DELETE ABC; TABLE IS BEING DELETED. 1 row deleted. SQL> INSERT INTO ABC 2 VALUES 3

SQL> ED Wrote file afiedt.buf 1 INSERT INTO ABC 2 SELECT EMPNO, HIREDATE * FROM EMP SQL> / A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED.

A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. A REC IS BEING INSERTED. 14 rows created. SQL> COMMIT; Commit complete. SQL> DELETE ABC; TABLE IS BEING DELETED. 14 rows deleted. SQL> ROLL Rollback complete. SQL> SELECT * FROM ABC; A ------7369 7499 7521 7566 7654 7698 7782 7788 7839 7844 7876 A ---------7900 7902 7934 B --------17-DEC-80 20-FEB-81 22-FEB-81 02-APR-81 28-SEP-81 01-MAY-81 09-JUN-81 09-DEC-82 17-NOV-81 08-SEP-81 12-JAN-83 B -------03-DEC-81 03-DEC-81 23-JAN-82

4 rows selected. SQL> CREATE TABLE ABC_BAK 2 AS 3 SELECT * FROM ABC WHERE 0=9; Table created. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------select * from emp

Table Type Example.

declare type ty_tab is table of number; v_tab ty_tab := ty_tab(); begin for i in 1..50 loop v_tab.extend; v_tab(i) := (i); end loop; v_tab.delete(5); v_tab.delete(10); v_tab.delete(15); for i in v_tab.first..v_tab.last loop if v_tab.exists(i) then dbms_output.put_line(i||' '||v_tab(i)); else dbms_output.put_line(i||' has been deleted.'); end if; end loop; end; /

Create Synonym Example

CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM AR_CUSTOMER_DETAILS FOR AR_CUSTOMER_DETAILS / table 1: mm_m_matgrp create table mm_m_matgrp( mat_grp number(1) primary key, descr varchar2(70) not null, abvr varchar2(6), crt_by varchar2(10), crt_dt date, upd_by varchar2(10), upd_dt date); table2 : mm_m_matmain create table mm_m_matmain( mat_grp number(1) constraint mt_grp_pk references mm_m_matgrp(mat_grp), mat_main number(2) primary key, descr varchar2(70) not null, abvr varchar2(6), crt_by varchar2(10), crt_dt date, upd_by varchar2(10), upd_dt date); table 3 : mm_m_matsub create table mm_m_matsub( mat_grp number(1) constraint mt_grp_fk references mm_m_matgrp(mat_grp), mat_main number(2) constraint mt_main_fk references mm_m_matmain(mat_main), mat_sub number(2) primary key, descr varchar2(70) not null, abvr varchar2(6), crt_by varchar2(10), crt_dt date, upd_by varchar2(10), upd_dt date); table 4 : mm_m_mat create table mm_m_mat( mat_grp number(1) not null, mat_main number(2) not null, mat_sub number(2) not null, mat_sub2 number(2) not null, mat_cd number(7) primary key, descr varchar2(70) not null, abvr varchar2(6), uon varchar2 (10) not null, silo_stk_ind number(1), moist_ind number(1),no_wb_ind number(1), crt_by varchar2(10), crt_dt date, upd_by varchar2(10), upd_dt date); alter table mm_m_matgrp

create or replace trigger chk_view instead of insert on j_view for each row begin insert into dept (deptno,dname,loc) values (:new.deptno,:new.dname,:new.loc); insert into emp(empno,ename,job,sal,deptno) values (:new.empno,:new.ename,:new.job,:new.sal,:new.deptno); end; / insert into j_view (empno,ename,sal,job,dname,loc,deptno)values(1023,'sdg',987,'com','ewe','JAPan',78);

GV
declare cursor deptcur is select deptno from dept; --emp cursor cursor empcur(v_deptno dept.deptno%type) is select ename from emp where deptno = v_deptno; begin for deptrec in deptcur loop dbms_output.put_line('depertment no ...'|| deptrec.deptno); for emprec in empcur(deptrec.deptno) loop dbms_output.put_line('emp name ..'|| emprec.ename); end loop; end loop; end;

NESTED TABLE
step1:creation of a type create type btype1 as object(bno number, bname varchar2(20),author varchar2(20)); step2:creation of table of the above type create type btype1 as object(bno number, bname varchar2(20),author varchar2(20)); step3:creation of parent table create type btype1 as object(bno number, bname varchar2(20),author varchar2(20)); step4:inserting the data create type btype1 as object(bno number, bname varchar2(20),author varchar2(20)); create type btype1 as object(bno number, bname varchar2(20),author varchar2(20)); step5:selecting select s.bdetails from empbook s where empno=1002

PL SQL Table
declare type ty_tab is table of number index by binary_integer; v_tab ty_tab ; begin for i in 1..10 loop

v_tab(i*4) := (i); end loop; dbms_output.put_line(v_tab.count); v_tab.delete(5); v_tab.delete(10); v_tab.delete(15); for i in v_tab.first..v_tab.last loop if v_tab.exists(i) then dbms_output.put_line(i||' '||v_tab(i)); end if; end loop; end; /

SQL Queries and Programs Examples Part - 5 Run these sample queries and check out the output.
SQL Query Syntax
select col... from tablename [ where condition group by col... having condiiton order by col... /

1.SQL> select rtrim('xyxyxyxyxybosexxxxxxxxyxyxyx','xy') from dual;

RTRIM('XYXYXYX -------------xyxyxyxyxybose

2.SQL> select round(15.59,-1) from dual;

ROUND(15.59,-1) --------------20

3.SQL> select trunc(15.59,-1) from dual;

TRUNC(15.59,-1) --------------10

4.SQL> select nls_initcap('i jsland','nls_sort=xdutch') from dual;

NLS_INIT -------I Jsland SQL> select nls_initcap('i jsland') from dual; NLS_INIT -------I Jsland 5.SQL> select replace('jack and jue','j','bl') from dual; REPLACE('JACKA

-------------black and blue SQL> select translate ('2krw229','0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', '9999999999xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx') from dual; TRANSLA ------9xxx999

6. What is the difference between substr & substrb? 7. Instring?

8. SQL> SELECT NLS_INITCAP ('ijsland', 'NLS_SORT = XDutch') "Capitalized" FROM DUAL; Capital ------IJsland SQL> SELECT NLS_INITCAP ('ijsland', 'NLS_SORT = Xfrench') "Capitalized" FROM DUAL; Capital ------Ijsland

9. What is the difference between replace & translate?

SQL & PL/SQL Interview Questions Part - 1

1. What is PL/SQL and what is it used for?
PL/SQL is Oracle's Procedural Language extension to SQL. PL/SQL's language syntax, structure and data types are similar to that of ADA. The PL/SQL language includes object oriented programming techniques such as encapsulation, function overloading, and information hiding (all but inheritance). PL/SQL is commonly used to write data-centric programs to manipulate data in an Oracle database.

2. Should one use PL/SQL or Java to code procedures and triggers?

Internally the Oracle database supports two procedural languages, namely PL/SQL and Java. This leads to questions like "Which of the two is the best?" and "Will Oracle ever de support PL/SQL in favor of Java? Many Oracle applications are based on PL/SQL and it would be difficult of Oracle to ever desupport PL/SQL. In fact, all indications are that PL/SQL still has a bright future ahead of it. Many enhancements are still being made to PL/SQL. For example, Oracle 9iDB supports native compilation of Pl/SQL code to binaries. PL/SQL and Java appeal to different people in different job roles. The following table briefly describes the difference between these two language environments:

PL/SQL:
Data centric and tightly integrated into the database Proprietary to Oracle and difficult to port to other database systems Data manipulation is slightly faster in PL/SQL than in Java Easier to use than Java (depending on your background)

JAVA:
Open standard, not proprietary to Oracle Incurs some data conversion overhead between the Database and Java type systems Java is more difficult to use (depending on your background)

3. How can one see if somebody modified any code?

Code for stored procedures, functions and packages is stored in the Oracle Data Dictionary. One can detect code changes by looking at the LAST_DDL_TIME column in the USER_OBJECTS dictionary view.

Example:
SELECT OBJECT_NAME, TO_CHAR(CREATED, 'DD-Mon-RR HH24:MI') CREATE_TIME, TO_CHAR(LAST_DDL_TIME, 'DD-Mon-RR HH24:MI) MOD_TIME, STATUS FROM USER_OBJECTS WHERE LAST_DDL_TIME > '&CHECK_FROM_DATE';

4. How can one search PL/SQL code for a string/ key value?
The following query is handy if you want to know where a certain table, field or expression is referenced in your PL/SQL source code. SELECT TYPE, NAME, LINE FROM USER_SOURCE WHERE UPPER(TEXT) LIKE '%&KEYWORD%';

5. How can one keep a history of PL/SQL code changes?

One can build a history of PL/SQL code changes by setting up an AFTER CREATE schema (or database) level trigger (available from Oracle 8.1.7). This way one can easily revert to previous code should someone make any catastrophic changes? Look at this example: CREATE TABLE SOURCE_HIST -- Create history table AS SELECT SYSDATE CHANGE_DATE, USER_SOURCE.* FROM USER_SOURCE WHERE 1=2; CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER change_hist -- Store code in hist table AFTER CREATE ON SCOTT.SCHEMA -- Change SCOTT to your schema name DECLARE BEGIN if DICTIONARY_OBJ_TYPE in ('PROCEDURE', 'FUNCTION', 'PACKAGE', 'PACKAGE BODY', 'TYPE') then -- Store old code in SOURCE_HIST table INSERT INTO SOURCE_HIST SELECT sysdate, user_source.* FROM USER_SOURCE WHERE TYPE = DICTIONARY_OBJ_TYPE AND NAME = DICTIONARY_OBJ_NAME; end if; EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN raise_application_error(-20000, SQLERRM); END; / show errors

6. How can I protect my PL/SQL source code?

PL/SQL V2.2, available with Oracle7.2, implements a binary wrapper for PL/SQL programs to protect the source code. This is done via a standalone utility that transforms the PL/SQL source code into portable binary object code (somewhat larger than the original). This way you can distribute software without having to worry about exposing your proprietary algorithms and methods. SQL*Plus and SQL*DBA will still understand and know how to execute such scripts. Just be careful, there is no "decode" command available. The syntax is: wrap iname=myscript.sql oname=xxxx.plb

7. Can one print to the screen from PL/SQL?

One can use the DBMS_OUTPUT package to write information to an output buffer. This buffer can be displayed on the screen from SQL*Plus if you issue the SET SERVEROUTPUT ON; command. For example: set serveroutput on begin dbms_output.put_line('Look Ma, I can print from PL/SQL!!!'); end; / DBMS_OUTPUT is useful for debugging PL/SQL programs. However, if you print too much,the output buffer will overflow. In that case, set the buffer size to a larger value, eg: set serveroutput on size 200000 If you forget to set serveroutput on type SET SERVEROUTPUT ON once you remember,and then EXEC NULL;. If you haven't cleared the DBMS_OUTPUT buffer with the disable or enable procedure, SQL*Plus will display the entire contents of the buffer when it executes this dummy PL/SQL block.

8. Can one read/write files from PL/SQL?

Included in Oracle 7.3 is an UTL_FILE package that can read and write operating system files. The directory you intend writing to has to be in your INIT.ORA file (see UTL_FILE_DIR=... parameter). Before Oracle 7.3 the only means of writing a file was to use DBMS_OUTPUT with the SQL*Plus SPOOL command. Copy this example to get started: DECLARE fileHandler UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE; BEGIN fileHandler := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('/tmp', 'myfile', 'w'); UTL_FILE.PUTF(fileHandler, 'Look ma, I''m writing to a file!!!\n'); UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(fileHandler); EXCEPTION WHEN utl_file.invalid_path THEN raise_application_error(-20000, 'ERROR: Invalid path for file or path not in INIT.ORA.'); END; /

9. Can one call DDL statements from PL/SQL?

One can call DDL statements like CREATE, DROP, TRUNCATE, etc. from PL/SQL by using the "EXECUTE IMMEDATE" statement. Users running Oracle versions below 8i can look at the DBMS_SQL package (see FAQ about Dynamic SQL). begin EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE TABLE X(A DATE)'; end;

NOTE: The DDL statement in quotes should not be terminated with a semicolon. 10. Can one use dynamic SQL statements from PL/SQL?
Starting from Oracle8i one can use the "EXECUTE IMMEDIATE" statement to execute dynamic SQL and PL/SQL statements (statements created at run-time). Look at these examples.Note that statements are NOT terminated by semicolons: EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE TABLE x (a NUMBER)'; -- Using bind variables... sql_stmt := 'INSERT INTO dept VALUES (:1, :2, :3)'; EXECUTE IMMEDIATE sql_stmt USING dept_id, dept_name, location; -- Returning a cursor... sql_stmt := 'SELECT * FROM emp WHERE empno = :id';

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE sql_stmt INTO emp_rec USING emp_id; One can also use the older DBMS_SQL package (V2.1 and above) to execute dynamic statements. Look at these examples: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE DYNSQL AS cur integer; rc integer; BEGIN cur := DBMS_SQL.OPEN_CURSOR; DBMS_SQL.PARSE(cur, 'CREATE TABLE X (Y DATE)', DBMS_SQL.NATIVE); rc := DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(cur); DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(cur); END; / More complex DBMS_SQL example using bind variables: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE DEPARTMENTS(NO IN DEPT.DEPTNO%TYPE) AS v_cursor integer; v_dname char(20); v_rows integer; BEGIN v_cursor := DBMS_SQL.OPEN_CURSOR; DBMS_SQL.PARSE(v_cursor, 'select dname from dept where deptno> :x', DBMS_SQL.V7); DBMS_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(v_cursor, ':x', no); DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN_CHAR(v_cursor, 1, v_dname, 20); v_rows := DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(v_cursor); loop if DBMS_SQL.FETCH_ROWS(v_cursor) = 0 then exit; end if; DBMS_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE_CHAR(v_cursor, 1, v_dname); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Deptartment name: '||v_dname); end loop; DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(v_cursor); EXCEPTION when others then DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(v_cursor); raise_application_error(-20000, 'Unknown Exception Raised: '||sqlcode||' '||sqlerrm); END; /

SQL & PL/SQL Interview Questions Part - 2

11. What is the difference between %TYPE and %ROWTYPE?
The %TYPE and %ROWTYPE constructs provide data independence, reduces maintenance costs, and allows programs to adapt as the database changes to meet new business needs. %ROWTYPE is used to declare a record with the same types as found in the specified database table, view or cursor.

Example:
DECLARE v_EmpRecord emp%ROWTYPE; %TYPE is used to declare a field with the same type as that of a specified table's column.

Example:
DECLARE v_EmpNo emp.empno%TYPE;

12. What is the result of comparing NULL with NULL?

NULL is neither equal to NULL, nor it is not equal to NULL. Any comparison to NULL is evaluated to NULL. Look at this code example to convince yourself.

declare a number := NULL; b number := NULL; begin if a=b then dbms_output.put_line('True, NULL = NULL'); elsif a<>b then dbms_output.put_line('False, NULL <> NULL'); else dbms_output.put_line('Undefined NULL is neither = nor <> to NULL'); end if; end;

13. How does one get the value of a sequence into a PL/SQL variable?
As you might know, one cannot use sequences directly from PL/SQL. Oracle (for some silly reason) prohibits this: i := sq_sequence.NEXTVAL; However, one can use embedded SQL statements to obtain sequence values: select sq_sequence.NEXTVAL into :i from dual; Thanks to Ronald van Woensel

14. Can one execute an operating system command from PL/SQL?

There is no direct way to execute operating system commands from PL/SQL in Oracle7. However, one can write an external program (using one of the precompiler languages, OCI or Perl with Oracle access modules) to act as a listener on a database pipe (SYS.DBMS_PIPE). Your PL/SQL program then put requests to run commands in the pipe, the listener picks it up and run the requests. Results are passed back on a different database pipe. For an Pro*C example, see chapter 8 of the Oracle Application Developers Guide. In Oracle8 one can call external 3GL code in a dynamically linked library (DLL or shared object). One just write a library in C/ C++ to do whatever is required. Defining this C/C++ function to PL/SQL makes it executable. Look at this External Procedure example.

15. How does one loop through tables in PL/SQL?

Look at the following nested loop code example. DECLARE CURSOR dept_cur IS SELECT deptno FROM dept ORDER BY deptno; -- Employee cursor all employees for a dept number CURSOR emp_cur (v_dept_no DEPT.DEPTNO%TYPE) IS SELECT ename FROM emp WHERE deptno = v_dept_no; BEGIN FOR dept_rec IN dept_cur LOOP dbms_output.put_line('Employees in Department '||TO_CHAR(dept_rec.deptno)); FOR emp_rec in emp_cur(dept_rec.deptno) LOOP dbms_output.put_line('...Employee is '||emp_rec.ename); END LOOP; END LOOP; END; /

16. How often should one COMMIT in a PL/SQL loop? / What is the best commit strategy?
Contrary to popular believe, one should COMMIT less frequently within a PL/SQL loop to prevent ORA-1555 (Snapshot too old) errors. The higher the frequency of commit, the sooner the extents in the rollback segments will be cleared for new transactions, causing ORA-1555 errors.

To fix this problem one can easily rewrite code like this: FOR records IN my_cursor LOOP ...do some stuff... COMMIT; END LOOP; ... to ... FOR records IN my_cursor LOOP ...do some stuff... i := i+1; IF mod(i, 10000) THEN -- Commit every 10000 records COMMIT; END IF; END LOOP; If you still get ORA-1555 errors, contact your DBA to increase the rollback segments.

NOTE: Although fetching across COMMITs work with Oracle, is not supported by the ANSI standard. 17. I can SELECT from SQL*Plus but not from PL/SQL. What is wrong?
PL/SQL respect object privileges given directly to the user, but does not observe privileges given through roles. The consequence is that a SQL statement can work in SQL*Plus, but will give an error in PL/SQL. Choose one of the following solutions: Grant direct access on the tables to your user. Do not use roles! GRANT select ON scott.emp TO my_user; Define your procedures with invoker rights (Oracle 8i and higher); Move all the tables to one user/schema.

18. What is a mutating and constraining table?

"Mutating" means "changing". A mutating table is a table that is currently being modified by an update, delete, or insert statement. When a trigger tries to reference a table that is in state of flux (being changed), it is considered "mutating" and raises an error since Oracle should not return data that has not yet reached its final state. Another way this

SQL & PL/SQL Interview Questions Part - 4

DDL

DDL is Data Definition Language statements. Some examples: 1) CREATE

-To create objects in the database

2) ALTER
-Alters the structure of the database

Ex:Alter (column to be modify must be empty to reduce the size or to Change the datatype) 1) alter table emp modify(ename varchar2(40));

Add (to add new column or new constraints) 1) alter table emp add(address varchar2(20)); 2) alter table emp add foreign key(dept number) reference dept(deptno) on delete cascade;

3) DROP
-Delete objects from the database

Ex:
Alter table drop column Alter table set unused (last_name) Alter table drop unused columns

4) TRUNCATE
-Remove all records from a table, including all spaces Allocated for the records are removed

5) OMMENT
-Add comments to the data dictionary

Difference between Delete and truncate

Delete DML It will mark the records to delete We can rollback latter we use that space - It is DDL - WE CAN'T ROLLBACK - WE CAN'T APPLY CONDITIONS - It will releases the space and we can Truncate

All this type of values are stored in user_unused_col_tab table

QUERIES: 1) Copy the rows of emp to emp1, if both are structure remains the same?
Insert into emp1 select * from emp;

2) If structure is not same, only the four columns in emp1?

Insert into emp1 Select empno, ename, sal, deptno from emp;.

3) Copying the structure of emp to emp1 As it is Here data also copied? But here constraints will not be copyed?
Create table emp2 as select * from emp;

4) I want to copy the only structure of emp in emp1? Here no data will be copied?
Create table emp1 as select * from emp where 1=2;

Distinct key word:

1) Select all unique departments of employers?

Select distinct deptno from emp;

In Operator:
--- is to define a list of elements or values --- all the elements need to be enclosed with in paranthesis

1) list the emp those who are either clerks are analysis?
Select * from emp where job in(clerk,analysis);

Between operator:
---is used to spa city the range ---between operator not only work with numbers and also can work date datatype

1)list the employees of 1981?

Select * from emp Where hiredate between 01-jan-1981 and 31-dec-1981;

2)display the empno, name, sal, annual sal of all the emp in the descending order of annual sal?
Select eno, ename, sal,sal*12 annusal from emp order by annusal desc;

3)list the employees whose exp is ranging from 15 to 25 years?

Select * from emp where (sysdate-hiredate)/365 between 15 and 25;

4) write a query to display emp details of those working on dept 30 as clerks with out commotion?
Select * from emp where deptno=30 and job=clerk and commotion is null;

5) Display the analyst & manager to the annual sal more than 30,000 working under some manager with out commotion with experience less than 30 years and whose name should not be equal to blenk and who empno not equal to 7788 in descending order of salary?
Select * from emp Where job in(analyst,mamager) and Sal * 12 > 30,000 and mgr is not null and comm. Is null and (hiredate sysdate)/365 < 30 and Name ! = black and empno != 7788 Order by sa l desc;

Like operator:
--- is to match a pattern of characters --- the delimiters used along with like operator are -,%.

1) all the 5 charactores names starting with S?

select * from emp where ename like S----;

2) all 5 charactores ending with H?

select * from emp where ename like ----H;

3) list the emp who joined in the month which is started with A?
Select * from emo where hiredate like A%;

4) Those who joined in 1980es?

Select * from emp where hiredate like %8_;

DML 1) SELECT
- retrieve data from the a database

2) INSERT
-insert data into a table

3) UPDATE
-updates existing data within a table

Ex: 1) Transfer the emps of research to accounting?

Update emp Set deptno = (select deptno from dept where dname = account) where deptno= (select deptno from dept where dname = research);

2) DELETE
-deletes all records from a table, the space for the records remain

Ex:1) Delete salesman without commotion?

Delete from emp Where job = salesman and comm. Is null;

2) CALL
-call a PL/SQL or Java subprogram

3) EXPLAINS PLAN
-explain access path to data

4) LOCK TABLE
-control concurrency

5) MUTATINGTABLE
- Mutating Table is a table that is currently being modified by a DML statement. For a Trigger, this is the table on which the table is defined.

3) TCL
TCL is Data Control Language statements.

1.

COMMIT
- save work done

2.

SAVEPOINT
-identify a point in a transaction to which you can later roll back

Ex: savepoint (id) or (name) 3. ROLLBACK

-restore database to original since the last COMMIT

Ex: rollback [to savepoint ] 4. SET TRANSACTION

-Change transaction options like what rollback segment to use Save point

Ex:

Commit (work);

Rollback:
- Oracle Issues implicit commit before and after any DDL statement. Even if your DDL statement does not execute then also it Issues commit statement -If we issue commit all savepoints will be erased and all locks are released

DCL: 1) GRANT:
--- Is used to issue the privileges to other valid users of data base 1) User level --is granted by the DBA. 2) Object level --These can be granted by one user to another user

Ex:
1. Give select, update permit ions to the user demo on emp? Grant select, update On emp To demo; 2. Grant all permitions to the users sys and system on salgrade table? Grant all On salgrade To sys,system;

2) REVOKE:
----To cancel the permitions

Ex:
1) cancle the select permition from the user sys the object salgrade? Revoke select On salgrde From sys

Note:

1) user_pri_objects 2) user_table_pri 3) user_col_pri

Select * from DICT where table_name like userpri%;

Intigrity constants:
null, not null, default, check, primary key, foreign key

1.

primary key:

NOT NULL+ UNIQUE +INDEX+ REFERENCED TO ANOTHER TABLE COLUMN VALUES (FOREIGN KEY).

--ONE TABLE CAN HAVE ONLY ONE PRIMARY KEY -- PRIMARY KEYS WE CANT UPDATE

2.

unique : it will not allow duplicate values and it accept null values can be defined at the column level and table level check: it will check with column definition before accept. check constraint defines a
that each row must satisfy references to the currval, nextval, level, rownum pseudo columns calls to sysdate uid user, and userenv. check cons. can be defined at the column level and table level
CONDITION

3.

1.

foriegn key: foreign keys provide referential integrity rules wither within a table or b/w Tables
- give reference to the primary key column.

5.

references- identifies the table and column in the parent table.

On delete cascade- deletes the dependent rows in the child table when a row in the parent table is deleted. On delete set null - converts dependent foriegn key values to null. Cascade constraint- the cascade constraints clause drops all referential integrity constraints that refer to the primary and unique keys
defined on the dropped columns -the cascade constraints clause also drops all multicolumn constraints defined in the dropped columns.