Satyaki De - SQL Exploration

I'm a software engineer. I love my Oracle more than me. And, i'm senior forum member in OTN from Dec 2006 and completed my OCA. This blog mainly deals with Oracle & it's relevant technologies from useful perspective. Currently, I'm working as Teradata & Informatica ETL Solution designer. And, also take part in Teradata forum discussion.

Hi!


Friends, this page mainly deals with the basic of oracle sql & pl/sql. Here, i'm going to present many useful Oracle snippets which can be plugged into your solution. Many of the snippets which are going to be part of this blog are conceptualize and coded by me and many cases i got the idea from our brilliant otn members. I'm sure you people will like all the snippets as useful bricks. Very soon i am going to post many oracle sql & pl/sql .

Here i'm posting some useful SQL snippets which can be plugged into your environment -

SQL:

1. Dynamic Table Alteration:

Here is the sample code that demonstrate this -


scott>select * from v$version;
BANNER
----------------------------------------------------------------
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
CORE    10.2.0.3.0      Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production

Elapsed: 00:00:00.09

scott>
scott>create table test_dummy
2     (
3       a       varchar2(10)
4     );

Table created.

Elapsed: 00:00:05.00
scott>
scott>
scott>alter table &tab add (& col varchar2 ( 10 ));
Enter value for tab: test_dummy
Enter value for col: b
old   1: alter table &tab add (& col varchar2 ( 10 ))
new   1: alter table test_dummy add (b varchar2 ( 10 ))

Table altered.

Elapsed: 00:00:01.19

scott>
scott>desc test_dummy;
Name                 Null?    Type
-------------------- -------- --------------
A                             VARCHAR2(10)
B                             VARCHAR2(10)




2. Alternative Of Break Command:


scott>
scott>SELECT lag(null, 1, d.dname)
over (partition by e.deptno order by e.ename) as dname,
2         e.ename
3  from emp e, dept d
4  where e.deptno = d.deptno
5  ORDER BY D.dname, e.ename;

DNAME          ENAME
-------------- ----------
ACCOUNTING     CLARK
KING
MILLER
RESEARCH       ADAMS
FORD
JONES
SCOTT
SMITH
SALES          ALLEN
BLAKE
JAMES

DNAME          ENAME
-------------- ----------
MARTIN
TURNER
WARD

14 rows selected.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.52
scott>



3. Can we increase the size of a column for a View:


SQL> create or replace view v_emp
2 as
3 select ename
4 from emp
5 /
View created.

SQL> desc v_emp
Name Null? Type
----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
ENAME VARCHAR2(10)
SQL>
SQL> create or replace view v_emp
2 as
3 select cast (ename as varchar2 (30)) ename
4 from emp
5 /
View created.

SQL> desc v_emp
Name Null? Type
----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
ENAME VARCHAR2(30)



And here is the silly way to do this -


create or replace view temp_vv
as
select replace(ename,' ') ename
from (
select rpad(ename,100) ename
from emp
);


4. Combining two SQL Into One:


satyaki>
satyaki>select e.empno,e.deptno,d.loc "DEPT_10"
2  from emp e, dept d
3  where e.deptno = d.deptno
4  and d.deptno = 10;

EMPNO     DEPTNO DEPT_10
---------- ---------- -------------
7782         10 NEW YORK
7839         10 NEW YORK
7934         10 NEW YORK

Elapsed: 00:00:00.04
satyaki>
satyaki>select e.empno,e.deptno,d.loc "DEPT_OTH"
2  from emp e, dept d
3  where e.deptno = d.deptno
4  and e.deptno not in (10);

EMPNO     DEPTNO DEPT_OTH
---------- ---------- -------------
7369         20 DALLAS
7876         20 DALLAS
7566         20 DALLAS
7788         20 DALLAS
7902         20 DALLAS
7900         30 CHICAGO
7844         30 CHICAGO
7654         30 CHICAGO
7521         30 CHICAGO
7499         30 CHICAGO
7698         30 CHICAGO

11 rows selected.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.04
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>select a.empno,(
2                   select d.loc
3                   from emp e, dept d
4                   where e.deptno = d.deptno
5                   and e.empno = a.empno
6                   and d.deptno = 10
7                 ) "DEPT_10" ,
8                 (
9                   select d.loc
10                   from emp e, dept d
11                   where e.deptno = d.deptno
12                   and e.empno = a.empno
13                   and d.deptno not in (10)
14                 ) "DEPT_OTH"
15  from emp a
16  order by a.empno;

EMPNO DEPT_10       DEPT_OTH
---------- ------------- -------------
7369               DALLAS
7499               CHICAGO
7521               CHICAGO
7566               DALLAS
7654               CHICAGO
7698               CHICAGO
7782 NEW YORK
7788               DALLAS
7839 NEW YORK
7844               CHICAGO
7876               DALLAS

EMPNO DEPT_10       DEPT_OTH
---------- ------------- -------------
7900               CHICAGO
7902               DALLAS
7934 NEW YORK

14 rows selected.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.30
satyaki>


Regards.


Satyaki De.