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2.1 Basic Constructs of RDBMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3.1 Basic Parts of Speech of SQL . . . . . . .
3.1.1 Select, from, where, and order by .
3.1.2 Sub-queries. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.2 Joins,UNION, INTERSECT, and MINUS
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4.1 Built-in Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2 Regular Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3 GROUP BY, GROUP BY HAVING. ROLLUP, CUBE and
4.4 Date Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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5.0.1 Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.0.2 Variables, Assignments, and Operators
5.1 Data-types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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CONTENTS

8 Lecture (Lec 11 & 12 for Week

8.1 Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8.1.1 Implicit Cursor . . . .
8.1.2 Explicit Cursors . . . .
9 Lab
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Exercises
Lab for W1
Lab for W3
Lab for W4
Lab for W4
Lab for W4
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CONTENTS

Recap of the previous Lecture (if needed)

Chapter 1
RDBMS Programming Part1: Basic
1.1

Course Layout

Date: December 7, 2015

Week 1: Class 1 (Lecture 01)
Relational Database Programming: Introduction. Its role in S/W development.
Relational Database Basic Constructs: Table, Keys, Views, Cardinality.
Introduction to SQL. Difference between SQL and C/Java.
Week 1: Class 2 (Lecture 02)
Introduction to SQL (Con.) Basic concepts of Data Definition Language (DDL)
and Data Manipulation Language (DML). DDL explained: How to create table
with specification of Tablespace, user-defined constraints such as primary key and
foreign key.
Loading data from external sources (using SQL Loader).
Week 2: Class 1 (Lecture 03)
Basic Parts of Speech of SQL: select, from, where, order by. Usage of the operators
such as: greater than, less than, equal to , not equal to, and, or, Like, NULL, NOT
NULL.
Sub-queries in where clause.
Week 2: Class 2 (Lecture 04) Redundancy and Functional composition in
Database. Concept of Joins: Natural joins. View: its usage and restrictions.
Week 3: Class 1 (Lecture 05) Use built-in functions in SQL statements. Highlights a number of built-in functions: CONCANT, INITCAP,INSTR, LOWER,
UPPER, LENGTH, L/R PAD, L/R TRIM, SUBSTR, REPLACE,COUNT.
Regular Expression (O).
Week 3: Class 2 (Lecture 06) SQL aggregation: group by and having clause.
Outer joins (two versions). Inner joins (two versions). DECODE operator.
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Week 4: Class 1 (Lecture 07)

ROLLUP and CUBE operator.
SQL with Date and Time.
Introduction to PL/SQL. Characters & Lexical Units. Blocks, variable types, variable scope.
Week4: Class 2 (Lecture 08)
PL/SQL Control Structures: IF, CASE, LOOP, FOR, WHILE
Week 5: Class 1 (Lecture 09) Functions and Procedures: Basic Architecture.
Subroutine calling: Positional Notation, Named Notation, Mixed Notation.
Week 5: Class 2 (Lecture 10) Functions and Procedures: Further details. Explore all options in both Functions and Procedures. Comprehensive review of Functions and Procedures with real-life examples.Choice of Back-end verses Front-end
functions.
Week 6: Class 1 (Lecture 11) Introduction to Cursor: Identify the scenarios
where usa of cursor is redundant and mandatory. Implicit cursor & Explicit cursor.
4 steps of Explicit cursor. Cursor FOR loop (minimized form).
Week 6: Class 2 (Lecture 12)
Records: explicit record, nested record, record as object, record as return type.
Week 7: Class 1 (Lecture 13)
Exception Handling: using (a) built-in functions and (b) user-defined exceptions.
Week 7: Class 2 (Lecture 14) Transaction Management Part 1.
Week 8: Class 1 (Lecture 15) Transaction Management Part 2.
Week 8: Class 2 (Lecture 16) Oracle Collection Part 1: Collection Types
(Varrays, Nested Tables, Associative Arrays).
Week 9: Class 1 (Lecture 17)
Oracle Collection Part 2: Collection Set Operators.
Week 9: Class 2 (Lecture 18)
Oracle Collection Part 3: Collection API.
Week 10: Class 1 (Lecture 19) Large Objects Part 1: CLOB, BLOLB, Securefiles, BFILES.
Week 10: Class 2 (Lecture 20) Large Objects Part 2: DBMSLOB Package.
Week 11: Class 1 (Lecture 21) PL/SQL Package Part 1: Package Architecture.Package Specification. Package Body.
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Week 11: Class 2 (Lecture 22) PL/SQL Package Part 2: Grants and Synonyms.
Managing Packages in the Database Catalog.
Week 12: Class 1 (Lecture 23) Database Triggers Part 1. Use of triggers in
integrity Management of BI.
Week 12: Class 2 (Lecture 24) Database Triggers Part 2. Triggers and Procedures. Types of Triggers. Controlling Triggers.
Week 13: Class 1 (Lecture 25) Introduction to Dynamic SQL.Dynamic SQL
Architecture.Dynamic Statements. Dynamic Statements with inputs. DBMSSQL
Package.
Week 13: Class 2 (Lecture 26) Introduction to Object in Database Programming.
Week 14: Class 1 (Lecture 27)
Database Administration: Introduction Part 1: Types of Oracle Database Users.Tasks
of a Database Administrator.
Week 14: Class 2 (Lecture 28) Database Administration: Introduction Part
2: Managing Users and Securing the Database.Monitoring Database Operations.
Backup Process in Oracle Database.
Week 15: Class 1 (Lecture 29) Database performance Tuning Part 1: Primary
and Secondary Index. Simple and complex index. Reverse Key Index. Use of
ROWID.
Week 15: Class 2 (Lecture 30) Database performance Tuning 2: Views, clusters,
sequence. PL/SQL Security.
Brief Introduction to other Relational Databases such as : MySQL, PostGRE, MS
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Lecture (Lec 1 & 2) for Week 1
2.1

Basic Constructs of RDBMS

Schema A schema is a collection of database objects. A schema is owned by

a database user and has the same name as that user. Schema objects are the
logical structures that directly refer to the databases data. Schema objects include
structures like tables, views, and indexes.
Table Tables are the basic unit of data storage in an Oracle database. Database
tables hold all user-accessible data. Each table has columns and rows. A table that
has an employee database, for example, can have a column called employee number,
and each row in that column is an employees number.
Indexes Indexes are optional structures associated with tables. Indexes can be
created to increase the performance of data retrieval.
Indexes are created on one or more columns of a table. After it is created, an index
is automatically maintained and used by Oracle. Changes to table data (such as
adding new rows, updating rows, or deleting rows) are automatically incorporated
into all relevant indexes with complete transparency to the users.
Views Views are customized presentations of data in one or more tables or other
views. A view can also be considered a stored query. Views do not actually contain
data. Rather, they derive their data from the tables on which they are based,
referred to as the base tables of the views.
Views provide an additional level of table security by restricting access to a predetermined set of rows and columns of a table. They also hide data complexity and
store complex queries.
Clusters Clusters are groups of one or more tables physically stored together because they share common columns and are often used together. Because related
rows are physically stored together, disk access time improves.
Like indexes, clusters do not affect application design. Whether a table is part of a
cluster is transparent to users and to applications. Data stored in a clustered table
is accessed by SQL in the same way as data stored in a nonclustered table.
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Synonyms A synonym is an alias for any table, view, materialized view, sequence,
procedure, function, package, type, Java class schema object, user-defined object
type, or another synonym. Because a synonym is simply an alias, it requires no
storage other than its definition in the data dictionary.
Data Dictionary One of the most important parts of an Oracle database is its
data dictionary, which is a read-only set of tables that provides information about
the database. A data dictionary contains:
The definitions of all schema objects in the database (tables, views, indexes,
clusters, synonyms, sequences, procedures, functions, packages, triggers, and
so on)
How much space has been allocated for, and is currently used by, the schema
objects
Integrity constraint information
Privileges and roles each user has been granted
Auditing information, such as who has accessed or updated various schema
objects
DDL and DML SQL statements are divided into two major categories: data
definition language (DDL) and data manipulation language (DML).
DDL: DDL statements are used to build and modify the structure of your tables
and other objects in the database.
DDL Example: CREATE TABLE , ALTER TABLE.
DML:DML statements are used to work with the data in tables. When you are
connected to most multi-user databases (whether in a client program or by a connection from a Web page script), you are in effect working with a private copy
of your tables that cant be seen by anyone else until you are finished (or tell the
system that you are finished).
DML Example: The insert statement. (INSERT INTO table name VALUES
(value 1, ... value n);)
The update statement. UPDATE table name SET attribute = expression
WHERE condition;
Cardinality In data modelling terms, cardinality is how one table relates to another.
1-1 (one row in table A relates to one row in tableB)
1-Many (one row in table A relates to many rows in tableB)
Many-Many (Many rows in table A relate to many rows in tableB)
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Tablespace, Datafiles and Objects

(source: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/A57673_01/DOC/server/doc/SCN73/ch4.htm)
The following block-diagram shows the relationship.

Figure 2.1: Tablespace, Datafiles and Objects

Although databases, tablespaces, datafiles, and segments are closely related, they have
important differences:
Databases and tablespaces. An Oracle database is comprised of one or more logical storage units called tablespaces. The database also has a lot more (background
process). The databases data is collectively stored in the databases tablespaces.
Tablespaces and datafiles. Each tablespace in an Oracle database is comprised
of one or more operating system files called datafiles. A tablespaces datafiles physically store the associated database data on disk.
Databases and datafiles.A databases data is collectively stored in the datafiles
that constitute each tablespace of the database. For example, the simplest Oracle
database would have one tablespace and one datafile. A more complicated database
might have three tablespaces, each comprised of two datafiles (for a total of six
datafiles).
Tablespace. Tablespaces are the bridge between certain physical and logical components of the Oracle database. Tablespaces are where you store Oracle database
objects such as tables, indexes and rollback segments.
[A Rollback Segment is a database object containing before-images of data written
to the database. Rollback segments are used to: i) Undo changes when a transaction
is rolled back ii) Recover the database to a consistent state in case of failures ]
A database is divided into one or more logical storage units called tablespaces. A
database administrator can use tablespaces to do the following:
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control disk space allocation for database data

assign specific space quotas for database users
control availability of data by taking individual tablespaces online or offline
2.1.1.1

Basic Operations on Tablespace

Basics of Space Management: Introduction to Data Blocks, Extents, and Segments.

Figure 2.2: Oracle Storage Management

Data blocks.At the finest level of granularity, Oracle stores data in data blocks
(also called logical blocks, Oracle blocks, or pages). One data block corresponds to
a specific number of bytes of physical database space on disk.
Extent. The next level of logical database space is an extent. An extent is a
specific number of contiguous data blocks allocated for storing a specific type of
information.
Segment. The level of logical database storage above an extent is called a segment.
A segment is a set of extents, each of which has been allocated for a specific data
structure and all of which are stored in the same tablespace. For example, each
tables data is stored in its own data segment, while each indexs data is stored in
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its own index segment. If the table or index is partitioned, each partition is stored
in its own segment.
Oracle allocates space for segments in units of one extent. When the existing
extents of a segment are full, Oracle allocates another extent for that segment.
Step 1: Create a Tablespace first.
CREATE TABLESPACE mytspace
DATAFILE / u02 / o r a c l e / data / lmtbsb01 . dbf SIZE 50M
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE;
AUTOALLOCATE causes the tablespace to be system managed with a minimum
extent size of 64K.
Step 2 (a): Create an user and assign that user to a specific tablespace.
CREATE USER s i d n e y
IDENTIFIED BY t e s t 1 2 3
DEFAULT TABLESPACE mytspace
Specify the default tablespace for objects that the user creates. If you omit this clause,
then the users objects are stored in the database default tablespace.
If no default tablespace has been specified for the database, then the users objects are
stored in the SYSTEM tablespace.
There are a number of other parameters which we are now ignoring as not part of our
study objective.
Step 2 (b): Create a specific table and assign a tablespace with it (this will overrule
previous).
create table intel
( dt v a r c h a r 2 ( 2 0 ) ,
tm v a r c h a r 2 ( 2 8 ) ,
ep number ,
moteid number ,
t e m p e r a t u r e number ( 1 2 , 5 ) ,
humidity number ( 2 0 , 8 ) ,
l i g h t number ( 1 2 , 6 ) ,
v o l t a g e number ( 1 0 , 6 )
) t a b l e s p a c e NEW TBSPACE;
Step 3: How to get information about free available space for a tablespace. Use
DBA_FREE_SPACE data-dictionary.
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SELECT TABLESPACE NAME,SUM(BYTES)/1024/1024/1024 FREE SPACE(GB)

FROM DBA FREE SPACE GROUP BY TABLESPACE NAME;
2.1.1.2

More Operations on Tablespace

Will be covered at the Admin and Tuning Sections W13 to W15

The SYSTEM Tablespace
Allocating More Space for a Database
Online and Offline Tablespaces
Read-Only Tablespaces

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Lecture (Lec 3 & 4) for Week 2
3.1

Basic Parts of Speech of SQL

Before you start: SQL*Plus tells you how many rows it found in One table after a
valid query on it. (Notice the 14 rows selected notation at the bottom of the display.)
This is called feedback.
It can be controlled in the following way:

set feedback off

set feedback 25
show feedback

3.1.1

Select, from, where, and order by

Run an SQL query similar to the following:

select Feature, Section, Page

from NEWSPAPER
where Section = F
order by Page desc, Feature;

Default is asc in order by clause.

Logical Operators

Equal, Greater Than, Less Than, Not Equal

Page= 6 Page is equal to 6.
Page> 6 Page is greater than 6.
Page>= 6 Page is greater than or equal to 6.
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Page< 6 Page is less than 6.

Page<= 6 Page is less than or
Page!= 6 Page is not equal to
Page^= 6 Page is not equal to
Page<> 6 Page is not equal to

equal to 6.
6.
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LIKE
Feature LIKE Mo% Feature begins with the letters Mo.
Feature LIKE _ _ I% Feature has an I in the third position.
Feature LIKE %o%o% Feature has two os in it.
LIKE performs pattern matching. An underline character ( ) represents exactly one
character. A percent sign (%) represents any number of characters, including zero characters.
NULL and NOT NULL
IS NULL essentially instructs Oracle to identify columns in which the data is missing.
Tests Against a List of Values.
For Numbers
Page IN (1,2,3) => Page is in the list (1,2,3)
Page NOT IN (1,2,3) => Page is not in the list (1,2,3)
Page BETWEEN 6 AND 10 => Page is equal to 6, 10, or anything in between
Page NOT BETWEEN 6 AND 10 => Page is below 6 or above 10

For Strings

Section IN (A,C,F) => Section is in the list (A,C,F)

Section NOT IN (A,C,F))=>

Section is not in the list (A,C,F)

Section BETWEEN B AND D =>Section is equal to B, D, or anything

in between (alphabetically)
Section NOT BETWEEN B AND D => Section is below B or above D (alphabetically)

AND , OR Similar.
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Sub-queries.

Example in a real-life scenario:

A subquery answers multiple-part questions. For example, to determine who works
in Taylors department, you can first use a subquery to determine the department in
which Taylor works. You can then answer the original question with the parent SELECT
statement.
A subquery in the WHERE clause of a SELECT statement is also called a nested
subquery.
A subquery in the FROM clause of a SELECT statement is also called an inline view.
(a) Subquery in WHERE clause: Example
The following statement returns data about employees whose salaries exceed their
department average. The following statement assigns an alias to employees, the table
containing the salary information, and then uses the alias in a correlated subquery:
SELECT department_id, last_name, salary
FROM employees x
WHERE salary > (SELECT AVG(salary)
FROM employees
WHERE x.department_id = department_id)
ORDER BY department_id;
(b) Subquery in FROM clause : Example
A subquery can also be found in the FROM clause. These are called inline views.
Display the top five earner names and salaries from the EMPLOYEES table:
SELECT ROWNUM as RANK, last_name, salary
FROM (SELECT last_name, salary
FROM employees
ORDER BY salary DESC)
WHERE ROWNUM <= 5;

3.2

Joins,UNION, INTERSECT, and MINUS

3.2.1

Joins

3.2.1.1

Inner Join or Natural Join

(a) New format using natural keyword

You can use the natural keyword to indicate that a join should be performed based
on all columns that have the same name in the two tables being joined. For example,
what titles in BOOK_ORDER match those already in BOOKSHELF?
select Title
from BOOK_ORDER natural join BOOKSHELF;
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The natural join returned the results as if you had typed in the following:
select BO.Title
from BOOK_ORDER BO, BOOKSHELF
where BO.Title = BOOKSHELF.Title
and BO.Publisher = BOOKSHELF.Publisher
and BO.CategoryName = BOOKSHELF.CategoryName;

Note: The main difference is that INNER JOIN is used in real life; NATURAL JOIN
is only used in textbooks.
INNER JOIN Note that they support the on and using clauses, so you can specify
your join criteria as shown in the following listing:

Figure 3.1: Inner Join

New Syntax:
SELECT suppliers.supplier_id, suppliers.supplier_name, orders.order_date
FROM suppliers
INNER JOIN orders
ON suppliers.supplier_id = orders.supplier_id;

Old Syntax:
SELECT suppliers.supplier_id, suppliers.supplier_name, orders.order_date
FROM suppliers, orders
WHERE suppliers.supplier_id = orders.supplier_id;
(b) Classical format
SELECT ...
FROM
dataset_one d1
,
dataset_two d2
WHERE d1.column(s) = d2.column(s)
AND
...
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Figure 3.2: Left Outer Join

3.2.1.2

Outer Join

The New syntax for the Oracle LEFT OUTER JOIN is:
SELECT columns
FROM table1
LEFT [OUTER] JOIN table2
ON table1.column = table2.column;
Example:
SELECT suppliers.supplier_id, suppliers.supplier_name, orders.order_date
FROM suppliers
LEFT OUTER JOIN orders
ON suppliers.supplier_id = orders.supplier_id;

Example Old:
SELECT suppliers.supplier_id, suppliers.supplier_name, orders.order_date
FROM suppliers, orders
WHERE suppliers.supplier_id = orders.supplier_id(+);

Right Outer:
New:
SELECT orders.order_id, orders.order_date, suppliers.supplier_name
FROM suppliers
RIGHT OUTER JOIN orders
ON suppliers.supplier_id = orders.supplier_id;
Right Outer:
Old:
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SELECT orders.order_id, orders.order_date, suppliers.supplier_name

FROM suppliers, orders
WHERE suppliers.supplier_id(+) = orders.supplier_id;

Full Outer :
SELECT columns
FROM table1
FULL [OUTER] JOIN table2
ON table1.column = table2.column;
New:
SELECT suppliers.supplier_id, suppliers.supplier_name, orders.order_date
FROM suppliers
FULL OUTER JOIN orders
ON suppliers.supplier_id = orders.supplier_id;

Old:
As a final note, it is worth mentioning that the FULL OUTER JOIN example above could n
written in the old syntax without using a UNION query.

Figure 3.3: Right Outer Join

(a) Pre-Oracle9i Syntax for Outer Joins
select B.Title, MAX(BC.ReturnedDate - BC.CheckoutDate)
"Most Days Out"
from BOOKSHELF_CHECKOUT BC, BOOKSHELF B
where BC.Title (+) = B.Title
group by B.Title;
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Figure 3.4: Full Outer Join

(b) Modern Syntax for Outer Joins
select B.Title, MAX(BC.ReturnedDate - BC.CheckoutDate)
"Most Days Out"
from BOOKSHELF_CHECKOUT BC right outer join BOOKSHELF B
on BC.Title = B.Title
group by B.Title;

Left and Right Outer: So, what is the difference between the right and left outer
joins? The difference is simple in a left outer join, all of the rows from the left table will
be displayed, regardless of whether there are any matching columns in the right table.
In a right outer join, all of the rows from the right table will be displayed, regardless of
whether there are any matching columns in the left table. Hopefully the example that
we gave above help clarified this as well.
Employee
EmpID EmpName
13 Jason
8 Alex
3 Ram
17 Babu
25 Johnson
Location
EmpID EmpLoc
13 San Jose
8 Los Angeles
3 Pune, India
17 Chennai, India
39 Bangalore, India

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4.1

Built-in Functions

1. LOWER and UPPER: select City, LOWER(City), LOWER(City) from WEATHER;

2. Concatenation k
select City||Country from LOCATION;
select CONCAT(City, Country) from LOCATION;
2 are equivalent

3. RPAD and LPAD:

The syntax:
LPAD( string1, paddedlength, [ pad_string ] )

Parameters or Arguments:
string1 is the string to pad characters to (the left-hand side).
paddedlength is the number of characters to return. If the paddedlength is smaller
than the original string, the LPAD function will truncate the string to the size of
paddedlength.
padstring is optional. This is the string that will be padded to the left-hand side
of string1. If this parameter is omitted, the LPAD function will pad spaces to the
left-side of string1.
Example:
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LPAD(tech, 7);
Result:
tech
LPAD(tech, 2);
Result: te
LPAD(tech, 8, 0);
Result: 0000tech
LPAD(tech on the net, 15, z);
Result: tech on the net
LPAD(tech on the net, 16, z);
Result: ztech on the net

4. LTRIM, RTRIM, and TRIM: They trim off (removes) all specified characters
from the left and right ends of strings.
The syntax:
LTRIM( string1, [ trimstring ] )

Parameters or Arguments:
string1 is the string to trim the characters from the left-hand side.
trimstring is the string that will be removed from the left-hand side of string1. If
this parameter is omitted, the LTRIM function will remove all leading spaces from
string1.
Example:

LTRIM(
tech)
Result: tech
LTRIM(
tech, )
Result: tech
LTRIM(000123, 0)
Result: 123
LTRIM(123123Tech, 123)
Result: Tech
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LTRIM(123123Tech123, 123)
Result: Tech123
LTRIM(xyxzyyyTech, xyz)
Result: Tech
LTRIM(6372Tech, 0123456789)
Result: Tech

Last Example: In this example, every number combination from 0 to 9 has been
listed in the trimstring parameter. By doing this, it does not matter the order that
the numbers appear in string1, all leading numbers will be removed by the LTRIM
function.
Combining: LTRIM and RTRIM

(RTRIM(*#Hello*,*)
LTRIM(*#Hello*,*#)
Now combine them:
LTRIM(RTRIM(*#Hello*,*),*#)

Using the TRIM Function: The preceding example showed how to combine two
functionsa useful skill when dealing with string manipulation. If you are trimming
the exact same data from both the beginning and the end of the string, you can use
the TRIM function in place of an LTRIM/RTRIM combination.
TRIM(
tech
Result: tech

Note: If you do not specify trim_character, the default value is

a blank space.

TRIM( FROM
Result: tech

tech

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TRIM(LEADING 0 FROM 000123)

Result: 123
Note: If you specify LEADING, Oracle removes any leading characters equal
to trim_character.
TRIM(TRAILING 1 FROM Tech1)
Result: Tech
Note: If you specify TRAILING, Oracle removes any trailing characters equal
to trim_character.

TRIM(BOTH 1 FROM 123Tech111)

Result: 23Tech
Note: If you specify BOTH or none of the three, Oracle removes
leading and trailing characters equal to trim_character.

5. LENGTH LENGTH tells you how long a string ishow many characters it has in
it, including letters, spaces, and anything else.
6. SUBSTR:
The syntax:
SUBSTR( string, start_position, [ length ] )

Parameters or Arguments:
string is the source string.
startposition is the position for extraction. The first position in the string is always
1.
length is optional. It is the number of characters to extract. If this parameter is
omitted, the SUBSTR function will return the entire string.
Note: If startposition is a positive number, then the SUBSTR function starts from
the beginning of the string.
If startposition is a negative number, then the SUBSTR function starts from the
end of the string and counts backwards.
Example:
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SUBSTR(This is a test, 6, 2)
Result: is
SUBSTR(This is a test, 6)
Result: is a test
SUBSTR(TechOnTheNet, 1, 4)
Result: Tech
SUBSTR(TechOnTheNet, -3, 3)
Result: Net
SUBSTR(TechOnTheNet, -6, 3)
Result: The
SUBSTR(TechOnTheNet, -8, 2)
Result: On

7. INSTR:
Syntax:
INSTR( string, substring [, start_position [,

nth_appearance ] ] )

Parameters or Arguments:
string is the string to search.
substring is the substring to search for in string.
startposition is the position in string where the search will start. This argument is
optional. If omitted, it defaults to 1. The first position in the string is 1. If the
startposition is negative, the INSTR function counts back startposition number of
characters from the end of string and then searches towards the beginning of string.
nthappearance is the nth appearance of substring. This is optional. If omitted, it
defaults to 1.
Example:
INSTR(Tech on the net, e)
Result: 2
(the first occurrence of e)
INSTR(Tech on the net, e, 1, 1)
Result: 2
(the first occurrence of e)

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INSTR(Tech on the net, e, 1, 2)

Result: 11 (the second occurrence of e)
INSTR(Tech on the net, e, 1, 3)
Result: 14 (the third occurrence of e)

8. ASCII and CHR:

Example:
select CHR(70)||CHR(83)||CHR(79)||CHR(85)||CHR(71) R
as ChrValues
from DUAL;
OUTPUT:
R
----FSOUG

The ASCII function performs the reverse operationbut if you pass it a string, only
the first character of the string will be acted upon:
select ASCII(FSOUG) from DUAL;
ASCII(FSOUG)
-------------70

4.2

Regular Expression

Mainly used for advanced searching. Oracle 10g introduced support support for regular
expressions in SQL and PL/SQL.
Example 1 : REGEXP SUBSTR
DROP TABLE t1;
CREATE TABLE t1 (
data VARCHAR2(50)
);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (FALL 2014);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (2014 CODE-B);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (CODE-A 2014 CODE-D);
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INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (ADSHLHSALK);

INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (FALL 2004);
COMMIT;
SELECT * FROM t1;

DATA
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------FALL 2014
2014 CODE-B
CODE-A 2014 CODE-D
ADSHLHSALK
FALL 2004
5 rows selected.
SQL>
Objective: If we needed to return rows containing a specific year we could use the
LIKE operator (WHERE data LIKE %2014%), but how do we return rows using a
comparison (, =, , =, )?
One Solution is: to pull out the 4 figure year and convert it to a number, so we dont
accidentally do an ASCII comparison.
That is pretty easy using regular expressions.
Solution using Regular Expression: We can identify digits using the "\d" or "[0-9]"
operators. We want a group of four of them, which is represented by the "{4}" operator.
So our regular expression will be "\d{4}" or [0-9]4. The REGEXP_SUBSTR function
returns the string matching the regular expression, so that can be used to extract the
text of interest. We then just need to convert it to a number and perform our comparison.
Solution Query:
SELECT *
FROM
t1
WHERE TO_NUMBER(REGEXP_SUBSTR(data, \d{4})) >= 2014;
DATA
--------------------------------------------------------FALL 2014
2014 CODE-B
CODE-A 2014 CODE-D
3 rows selected.
SQL>
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GROUP BY, GROUP BY HAVING. ROLLUP,

CUBE and DECODE

1. GROUP BY: An aggregate function takes multiple rows of data returned by a

query and aggregates them into a single result row.
2. GROUP BY HAVING: The SQL HAVING Clause is used in combination with
the GROUP BY Clause to restrict the groups of returned rows to only those whose
the condition is TRUE.
Example:

SELECT department, SUM(sales) AS "Total sales"

FROM order_details
GROUP BY department
HAVING SUM(sales) > 1000;

3. ROLLUP: ROLLUP enables a SELECT statement to calculate multiple levels of

subtotals across a specified group of dimensions. It also calculates a grand total.
ROLLUP is a simple extension to the GROUP BY clause, so its syntax is extremely
easy to use. The ROLLUP extension is highly efficient, adding minimal overhead
to a query.
Syntax:
SELECT ... GROUP BY
ROLLUP(grouping_column_reference_list)
Details: ROLLUP will create subtotals at n+1 levels, where n is the number of
grouping columns. For instance, if a query specifies ROLLUP on grouping columns
of Time, Region, and Department ( n=3), the result set will include rows at four
aggregation levels.
Example:

select Dept,Desig,count(*)Total
from emp
group by rollup(Dept,Desig)
order by Dept,Desig;

Sample Output:

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DEPT DESIG
TOTAL
---------- -------------------10 Asst Manager 2
10 Manager 3
10 5
20 Asst Manager 3
20 Manager 2
20 5
30 Asst Manager 1
30 Manager 2
30 3
13

----------

You should learn other possible options on ROLLUP.

When to Use ROLLUP?
(a) It is very helpful for subtotaling along a hierarchical dimension such as time or
geography. For instance, a query could specify a ROLLUP of year/month/day
or country/state/city.
(b) It simplifies and speeds the population and maintenance of summary tables.
Data warehouse administrators may want to make extensive use of it. Note
that population of summary tables is even faster if the ROLLUP query executes in parallel.
4. CUBE: Why CUBE? It has a strong relationship with Data Warehousing. Lets
have a look on it.(Slides).
CUBE enables a SELECT statement to calculate subtotals for all possible combinations of a group of dimensions. It also calculates a grand total. This is the set of
information typically needed for all cross-tabular reports, so CUBE can calculate a
cross-tabular report with a single SELECT statement. Like ROLLUP, CUBE is a
simple extension to the GROUP BY clause.
Syntax:

SELECT ... GROUP BY

CUBE (grouping_column_reference_list)

Example:
select Dept,Desig,count(*)Total
from emp
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group by cube(Dept,Desig)
order by Dept,Desig;

Sample Output:
DEPT DESIG
TOTAL
---------- -------------------- ---------10 Asst Manager
2
10 Manager 3
10 5
20 Asst Manager
3
20 Manager 2
20 5
30 Asst Manager
1
30 Manager 2
30 3
Asst Manager
6
Manager 7
DEPT DESIG
TOTAL
---------- -------------------- ---------13

When to Use CUBE?

(a) Use CUBE in any situation requiring cross-tabular reports.
(b) CUBE is especially valuable in queries that use columns from multiple dimensions rather than columns representing different levels of a single dimension.
For instance, a commonly requested cross-tabulation might need subtotals for
all the combinations of month/state/product.

4.4

Date Operations

DATE is an Oracle datatype, just as VARCHAR2 and NUMBER are, and it has its
own unique properties. The DATE datatype is stored in a special internal Oracle format
that includes not just the month, day, and year, but also the hour, minute, and second.
TIMESTAMP datatype stores fractional seconds.
select SysDate from DUAL;
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select Systimestamp from dual;

SYSTIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------27-JAN-15 11:29:35.765787 +06:00

Fundamental Operations: (Chapter 10 for details)

1. TO DATE and TO CHAR Formatting
TO CHAR
select max(hire_date)MX,
TO_CHAR(max(hire_date),DD-MM-YYYY) DateConv
from employees;
Sample Output:
MX
DATECONV
------------------ ---------21-APR-08
21-04-2008

Month Part:

Month Formats:
Format Result
Month
August
Mon
Aug
Day Part:
The day of the month is produced by the DD in the format. A suffix of th on DD
tells Oracle to use ordinal suffixes, such as TH, RD, and ND with the number. In
this instance, the suffixes are also case sensitive, but their case is set by the DD,
not the th:
Format
DDth or
Ddth or
Ddth or

Result
DDTH 11TH
DdTH 11Th
ddTH 11th
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For part of one hour: HH:MI:SS

2. Adding and subtracting Month You can fast forward or go back in term of
number of Months. Use ADD_MONTHS
Example:
select hire_date DT, ADD_MONTHS(hire_date,47)Date_After47Moth
from employees
where department_id=50;

3. Difference Between Two Dates Date1 - Date1 gives the result in number of
days.
Example:
select max(hire_date)MX
from employees;

select min(hire_date)MN
from employees;
select (max(hire_date)-min(hire_date))/365 Year
from employees;

4. Date inside where clause

--bETWEEN CLAUSE-select hire_date
from employees
where hire_date between 01-JAN-06 AND 01-FEB-09;

--MORE SECURE WAY TO IT--

select hire_date
from employees
where hire_date between TO_DATE(01-JAN-06,DD-MON-YY) AND TO_DATE(01-FEB-09,

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EXTRACT Function: You can use the EXTRACT function in place of the
TO CHAR function when you are selecting portions of date valuessuch as just the
month or day from a date. The EXTRACT functions syntax is:

EXTRACT
( { { YEAR
| MONTH
| DAY
| HOUR
| MINUTE
| SECOND
}
| { TIMEZONE_HOUR
| TIMEZONE_MINUTE
}
| { TIMEZONE_REGION
| TIMEZONE_ABBR
}
}
FROM { datetime_value_expression | interval_value_expression }
)
Example:
select First_Name, EXTRACT( Month from hire_date) M
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Introduction to PL SQL.
A few points about PL SQL:
PL/SQL lets you write code once and deploy it in the database nearest the data.
PL/SQL can simplify application development, optimize execution, and improve
resource utilization in the database.
The language is a case-insensitive programming language, like SQL.
History: PL/SQL was developed by modeling concepts of structured programming, static data typing, modularity, exception management, and parallel (concurrent) processing found in the Ada programming language. The Ada programming
language, developed for the United States Department of Defense, was designed
to support military real-time and safety-critical embedded systems, such as those in
airplanes and missiles. The Ada programming language borrowed significant syntax
from the Pascal programming language, including the assignment and comparison
operators and the single-quote delimiters.

5.0.1

Block

PL/SQL is a blocked programming language. Program units can be named or unnamed

blocks. Unnamed blocks are known as anonymous blocks and are labeled so throughout the book. The PL/SQL coding style differs from that of the C, C++, and Java
programming languages. For example, curly braces do not delimit blocks in PL/SQL.
Anonymous-block programs are effective in some situations. You typically use anonymous blocks when building scripts to seed data or perform one-time processing activities.
They are also effective when you want to nest activity in another PL/SQL blocks execution section. The basic anonymous-block structure must contain an execution section.
You can also put optional declaration and exception sections in anonymous blocks. The
following illustrates an anonymous-block prototype:
[DECLARE]
declaration_statements
BEGIN
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execution_statements
[EXCEPTION]
exception_handling_statements
END;
/
Lets write out first block that will do nothing:

BEGIN
NULL;
END;
/
Hello World:
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON SIZE 1000000
BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line(Hello World.);
END;
/
scanf:
--scanf-DECLARE
my_var VARCHAR2(30);
BEGIN
my_var := &i;
dbms_output.put_line(Hello || my_var );
END;

5.0.2

Variables, Assignments, and Operators

Delimiters: Lexical delimiters are symbols or symbol sets.

For complete set see table 3-1. Here are some important symbols frequently used in
pl sql programming.
:= Assignment
The assignment operator is a colon immediately followed by an equal symbol. It is
the only assignment operator in the language. You assign a right operand to a left
operand, like a := b + c;

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. Association
The component selector is a period, and it glues references together, for example, a
schema and a table, a package and a function, or an object and a member method.
Component selectors are also used to link cursors and cursor attributes (columns).
The following are some prototype examples:

schema_name.table_name
package_name.function_name
object_name.member_method_name
cursor_name.cursor_attribute
object_name.nested_object_name.object_attribute
These are referenced in subsequent chapters throughout this book.
@ Association. The remote access indicator lets you access a remote database
through database links.
= Comparison.
!= Comparison Not equal to.
Delimiter In-line comment.
/* Delimiter */ Multi-line comment.
Delimiter.

quoted identifier delimiter is a double quote. It lets you access tables created
in case-sensitive fashion from the database catalog. This is required when you ha
created database catalog objects in case-sensitive fashion. You can do this from
Oracle 10g forward.
For example, you create a case-sensitive table or column by using quoted identifi
delimiters:
CREATE TABLE "Demo"
("Demo_ID" NUMBER
, demo_value VARCHAR2(10));
You insert a row by using the following quote-delimited syntax:
INSERT INTO "Demo1" VALUES
(1,One Line ONLY.);#

5.1

Data-types

See Figure 3.5 for details.

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Scalar Datatypes

Scalar datatypes use the following prototype inside the declaration block of your programs:
variable_name datatype [NOT NULL] [:= literal_value];
1. Boolean. The BOOLEAN datatype has three possible values: TRUE, FALSE,
and NULL.
var1 BOOLEAN; -- Implicitly assigned a null value.
var2 BOOLEAN NOT NULL := TRUE; -- Explicitly assigned a TRUE value.
var3 BOOLEAN NOT NULL := FALSE; -- Explicitly assigned a FALSE value.

There is little need to subtype a BOOLEAN datatype, but you can do it. The
subtyping syntax is:

SUBTYPE booked IS BOOLEAN;

This creates a subtype BOOKED that is an unconstrained BOOLEAN datatype.

You may find this useful when you need a second name for a BOOLEAN datatype,
but generally subtyping a Boolean is not very useful.
2. Characters and Strings. The following program illustrates the memory allocation differences between the CHAR and VARCHAR2 datatypes:
DECLARE
c CHAR( 3 2 7 6 7 ) := ;
v VARCHAR2( 3 2 7 6 7 ) :=
BEGIN
dbms output . p u t l i n e ( c
dbms output . p u t l i n e ( v
v := v | | ;
dbms output . p u t l i n e ( v
/

;
i s [ | | LENGTH( c ) | | ] ) ;
i s [ | | LENGTH( v ) | | ] ) ;
i s [ | | LENGTH( v ) | | ] ) ; END;

Output:

c is [32767]
v is [1]
v is [2]

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The output shows that a CHAR variable sets the allocated memory size when defined. The allocated memory can exceed what is required to manage the value in
the variable. The output also shows that the VARCHAR2 variable dynamically
allocates only the required memory to host its value.
More on VARCHAR2: You can size a VARCHAR2 datatype up to 32,767 bytes
in length.You can store character strings larger than 4,000 bytes in CLOB or LONG
columns.
Lets look at the example below:

var1 VARCHAR2(100); -- Explicitly sized at 100 byte.

var2 VARCHAR2(100 BYTE); -- Explicitly sized at 100 byte.
var3 VARCHAR2(100 CHAR); -- Explicitly sized at 100 character.
When you use character space allocation, the maximum size changes, depending on
the character set of your database. Some character sets use two or three bytes to
store characters. You divide 32,767 by the number of bytes required per character,
which means the maximum for a VARCHAR2 is 16,383 for a two-byte character
set and 10,922 for a three-byte character set.
3. Date: Already discussed. See interval and TIMESTAMP.
4. NUMBER. It can store numbers in the range of 1.0E-130 (1 times 10 raised to
the negative 130th power) to 1.0E126 (1 times 10 raised to the 126th power).
The following is the prototype for declaring a fixed-point NUMBER datatype:
NUMBER[(precision, [scale])] [NOT NULL]
5. Large Objects (LOBs) ( Details will be covered later. ) Large objects (LOBs)
provide you with four datatypes: BFILE, BLOB, CLOB, and NCLOB. The BFILE
is a datatype that points to an external file, which limits its maximum size to 4
gigabytes. The BLOB, CLOB and NCLOB are internally managed types, and their
maximum size is 8 to 128 terabytes, depending on thedb_block_size parameter
value.

5.1.2

Composite Datatypes

There are two composite generalized datatypes: records and collections. (Will be covered
next).
Just have look at the following example for Record.

DECLARE
TYPE demo_record_type IS RECORD
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( id NUMBER DEFAULT 1
, value VARCHAR2(10) := One);
demo DEMO_RECORD_TYPE;
BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line([||demo.id||][||demo.value||]);
END;
/

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6.1

Control Structure

6.1.1

Conditional statements

1. IF Statements. IF statements evaluate a condition. The condition can be any

comparison expression, or set of comparison expressions that evaluates to a logical
true or false.
Example:
DECLARE
X NUMBER;
BEGIN
X:=10;
IF (X = 0) THEN
dbms_output.put_line(The value of x is 0 );
ELSIF(X between 1 and 10) THEN
dbms_output.put_line(The value of x is between 1 and 10 );
ELSE
dbms_output.put_line(The value of x is greater than 10 );
END IF;
END;

Example in Real Scenario:

DECLARE
CGPA NUMBER;
X NUMBER :=034403;
BEGIN
SELECT MAX(CGPA) INTO CGPA
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FROM STUDENTS
WHERE ID=X;
IF (CGPA >3.78) THEN
dbms_output.put_line(Brilliant);
ELSIF(CGPA between 3.5 and 3.78) THEN
dbms_output.put_line(Mid Level);
ELSE
dbms_output.put_line(Poor);
END IF;
END;

2. Simple CASE Statements. The simple CASE statement sets a selector that is
any PL/SQL datatype except a BLOB, BFILE, or composite type.
Example:
DECLARE
selector NUMBER := 1;
BEGIN
CASE selector
WHEN 0 THEN
dbms_output.put_line(Case 0!);
WHEN 1 THEN
dbms_output.put_line(Case 1!);
ELSE
dbms_output.put_line(No match!);
END CASE;
END;
/

3. Searched CASE Statements

Lets look at the example: (this is one step advancement in SQL).
SELECT name, ID,
(CASE
WHEN salary < 1000 THEN Low
WHEN salary BETWEEN 1000 AND 3000 THEN Medium
WHEN salary > 3000 THEN High
ELSE N/A
END) salary
FROM emp
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ORDER BY name;

6.1.2

LOOP

1. LOOP and EXIT Statements Simple loops are explicit block structures. A
simple loop starts and ends with the LOOP reserved word. An EXIT statement or
an EXIT WHEN statement is required to break the loop.
Example: LOOP EXIT:
DECLARE
x number := 10;
BEGIN
LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(x);
x := x + 10;
IF x > 50 THEN
exit;
END IF;
END LOOP;
-- after exit, control resumes here
dbms_output.put_line(After Exit x is: || x);
END;
/
SQL> /
10
20
30
40
50
After Exit x is: 60
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Example: LOOP EXIT WHEN

DECLARE
x number := 10;
BEGIN
LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(x);
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x := x + 10;
exit WHEN x > 50;
END LOOP;
-- after exit, control resumes here
dbms_output.put_line(After Exit x is: || x);
END;
/

2. FOR Loop. A FOR LOOP is a repetition control structure that allows you to
efficiently write a loop that needs to execute a specific number of times.
Syntax:
FOR counter IN initial_value .. final_value LOOP
sequence_of_statements;
END LOOP;

Few Points:
After the body of the for loop executes, the value of the counter variable is
increased or decreased.
The initial_value and final_value of the loop variable or counter can be
literals, variables, or expressions but must evaluate to numbers. Otherwise,
PL/SQL raises the predefined exception VALUE_ERROR.
The initial_value need not to be 1; however, the loop counter increment
(or decrement) must be 1.
PL/SQL allows determine the loop range dynamically at run time.
Example:

DECLARE
a number(2);
BEGIN
FOR a in 10 .. 20 LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(value of a: || a);
END LOOP;
END;
/
OUTPUT:

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value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value

of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of

a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:

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10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Reverse FOR LOOP:By default, iteration proceeds from the initial value to the
final value, generally upward from the lower bound to the higher bound. You can
reverse this order by using the REVERSE keyword. In such case, iteration proceeds
the other way. After each iteration, the loop counter is decremented.
However, you must write the range bounds in ascending (not descending) order.
Example:
DECLARE
a number(2) ;
BEGIN
FOR a IN REVERSE 10 .. 20 LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(value of a: || a);
END LOOP;
END;
/
OUTPUT:
value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value

of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of

a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:

20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
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value of a: 11
value of a: 10
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

3. WHILE Loop. A WHILE LOOP statement in PL/SQL programming language

repeatedly executes a target statement as long as a given condition is true.
Syntax:

WHILE condition LOOP

sequence_of_statements
END LOOP;

Example:

DECLARE
a number(2) := 10;
BEGIN
WHILE a < 20 LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(value of a: || a);
a := a + 1;
END LOOP;
END;
/
OUTPUT:
value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value
value

of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of

a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:
a:

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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Example:

DECLARE
a number(2) := 10;
BEGIN
WHILE a < 20 LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(value of a: || a);
a := a + 1;
END LOOP;
END;
/

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7.1

Functions and Procedures

Motivation for Functions and Procedures: Modular Code. Modularization is the process by which you break up large blocks of code into smaller pieces (modules) that can be
called by other modules. Modularization of code is analogous to normalization of data,
with many of the same benefits and a few additional advantages. With modularization,
your code becomes:
More reusable. By breaking up a large program or entire application into individual components that plug-and-play together, you will usually find that many
modules are used by more than one other program in your current application. Designed properly, these utility programs could even be of use in other applications!
More manageable. Which would you rather debug: a 1,000-line program or
five individual 200-line programs that call each other as needed? Our minds work
better when we can focus on smaller tasks. You can also test and debug on a perprogram scale (called unit testing) before individual modules are combined for a
more complicated integration test.
More readable. Modules have names, and names describe behavior. The more
you move or hide your code behind a programmatic interface, the easier it is to
read and understand what that program is doing. Modularization helps you focus
on the big picture rather than on the individual executable statements. You might
even end up with that most elusive kind of software: self-documenting code.
More reliable. The code you produce will have fewer errors. The errors you do
find will be easier to fix because they will be isolated within a module. In addition,
your code will be easier to maintain because there is less of it and it is more readable.
Forms of Modularization: PL/SQL offers the following structures that modularize
your code in different ways:
Procedure. A program that performs one or more actions and is called as an executable PL/SQL statement. You can pass information into and out of a procedure
through its parameter list.
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Function. A program that returns data through its RETURN clause, and is used
just like a PL/SQL expression. You can pass information into a function through
its parameter list.
Database trigger. A set of commands that are triggered to execute (e.g., log in,
modify a row in a table, execute a DDL statement) when an event occurs in the
database.
Package. A named collection of procedures, functions, types, and variables. A
package is not really a module (its more of a meta-module), but it is so closely
related that.

7.1.1

Procedures and Function

Procedure:A procedure is a module that performs one or more actions. Because a

procedure call is a standalone executable statement in PL/SQL, a PL/SQL block could
consist of nothing more than a single call to a procedure. Procedures are key building
blocks of modular code, allowing you to both consolidate and reuse your program logic.
Syntax:
[CREATE [OR REPLACE]]
PROCEDURE procedure_name[(parameter[, parameter]...)]
[AUTHID {DEFINER | CURRENT_USER}] {IS | AS}
[PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION;]
[local declarations]
BEGIN
executable statements
[EXCEPTION
exception handlers]
END [name];
Function: A function is a module that returns data through its RETURN clause, rather
than in an OUT or IN OUT argument (We will see what it means). Unlike a procedure
call, which is a standalone executable statement, a call to a function can exist only as
part of an executable statement, such as an element in an expression or the value assigned
as the default in a declaration of a variable.
Syntax
[CREATE [OR REPLACE]]
FUNCTION function_name[(parameter[, parameter]...)]
RETURN RETURN_TYPE
[AUTHID {DEFINER | CURRENT_USER}] {IS | AS}
[PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION;]

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[local declarations]
BEGIN
executable statements
[EXCEPTION
exception handlers]
RETURN STATEMENT;
END [name];
Common in Procedure and Function:
Has a name.
Can take parameters, and can return values.
Is stored in the data dictionary.
Can be called by many users.
Note: The term stored procedure is sometimes used generically for both stored procedures and stored functions. The only difference between procedures and functions is
that functions always return a single value to the caller, while procedures do not return
a value to the caller.
7.1.1.1

Parameters for Procedures and Functions

Parameter modes define the behavior of formal parameters. The three parameter modes,
IN (the default), OUT, and IN OUT, can be used with any subprogram. However,
avoid using the OUT and IN OUT modes with functions.
IN: The value of the actual parameter is passed into the procedure when the procedure is invoked. Inside the procedure, the formal parameter acts like a PL/SQL
constantit is considered read-only and cannot be changed.
OUT: Any value the actual parameter has when the procedure is called is ignored.
Inside the procedure, the formal parameter acts like an uninitialized PL/SQL variable and thus has a value of NULL. It can be read from and written to.
INOUT: This mode is a combination of IN and OUT.
Formal Parameters: When you declare a parameter, however, you must leave out
the constraining part of the declaration.
Datatype indicator. 1. Using the %TYPE Attribute 2. Using the %ROWTYPE Attribute
DECLARE
emprec
employees_temp%ROWTYPE;
id emp.id%TYPE;
BEGIN
emprec.empid := NULL; -- this works, null constraint is not inherited

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-- emprec.empid := 10000002; -- invalid, number precision too large

emprec.deptid := 50; -- this works, check constraint is not inherited
-- the default value is not inherited in the following
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(emprec.deptname: || emprec.deptname);
END;
/

Example: Procedure with IN and OUT parameter

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE PROC1(ID IN NUMBER, SALARY OUT NUMBER)
AS BEGIN
SELECT MAX(SALARY) INTO SALARY
FROM EMP
WHERE ID = ID;
END;
/
---now call it from annonymous block-DECLARE
amount NUMBER;
BEGIN
PROC1(101, amount);
dbms_output.put_line(amount);
END;

Parameter Positions:
Positional Notation: You use positional notation to call the function as follows:

BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line(add_three_numbers(3,4,5));
END;

Named Notation: You call the function using named notation by:

BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line(add_three_numbers(c => 4,b => 5,c => 3));
END;

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Mixed Notation: You call the function by a mix of both positional and named
notation by:

BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line(add_three_numbers(3,c => 4,b => 5));
END;

Note: There is a restriction on mixed notation. All positional notation actual parameters must occur first and in the same order as they are defined by the function
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8.1

Cursor

(Source http://www.tutorialspoint.com/plsql/plsql_cursors.htm)
In response to any DML statement the database creates a memory area, known as
context area, for processing an SQL statement, which contains all information needed for
processing the statement, for example, number of rows processed, etc.
A cursor is a pointer to this context area. PL/SQL controls the context area through
a cursor. A cursor holds the rows (one or more) returned by a SQL statement. The set
of rows the cursor holds is referred to as the active set.
You can name a cursor so that it could be referred to in a program to fetch and process
the rows returned by the SQL statement, one at a time. There are two types of cursors:

Implicit cursors.
Explicit cursors.

8.1.1

Implicit Cursor

Implicit cursors are automatically created by Oracle whenever an SQL statement is executed, when there is no explicit cursor for the statement. Programmers cannot control
the implicit cursors and the information in it.
Whenever a DML statement (INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) is issued, an implicit
cursor is associated with this statement. For INSERT operations, the cursor holds the
data that needs to be inserted. For UPDATE and DELETE operations, the cursor
identifies the rows that would be affected.
In PL/SQL, you can refer to the most recent implicit cursor as the SQL cursor, which
always has the attributes like %FOUND, %ISOPEN, %NOTFOUND, and %ROWCOUNT.

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Attribute
%FOUND

%NOTFOUND

%ISOPEN

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Description
Returns TRUE if an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE
statement affected one or more rows or a SELECT INTO
statement returned one or more rows. Otherwise, it returns FALSE.
The logical opposite of %FOUND. It returns TRUE if
an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement affected
no rows, or a SELECT INTO statement returned no
rows. Otherwise, it returns FALSE.
Always returns FALSE for implicit cursors, because Oracle closes the SQL cursor automatically after executing
its associated SQL statement.
Returns the number of rows affected by an INSERT,
UPDATE, or DELETE statement, or returned by a SELECT INTO statement.

Example: Implicit Cursor

DECLARE
total_rows number(2);
BEGIN
UPDATE emp
SET salary = salary + 500;
IF sql%notfound THEN
dbms_output.put_line(no customers selected);
ELSIF sql%found THEN
total_rows := sql%rowcount;
dbms_output.put_line( total_rows || customers selected );
END IF;
END;
/

8.1.2

Explicit Cursors

Explicit cursors are programmer defined cursors for gaining more control over the context
area. An explicit cursor should be defined in the declaration section of the PL/SQL Block.
It is created on a SELECT Statement which returns one or more rows.
CURSOR cursor_name IS select_statement;

4 Steps for Cursors:

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1. Declaring the cursor for initializing in the memory

2. Opening the cursor for allocating memory
3. Fetching the cursor for retrieving data
4. Closing the cursor to release allocated memory
Similar to typical file operation.
Example:

DECLARE
c_id customers.id%type;
c_name customers.name%type;
c_addr customers.address%type;
CURSOR c_customers is
SELECT id, name, address FROM customers;
BEGIN
OPEN c_customers;
LOOP
FETCH c_customers into c_id, c_name, c_addr;
EXIT WHEN c_customers%notfound;
dbms_output.put_line(c_id || || c_name || || c_addr);
END LOOP;
CLOSE c_customers;
END;
/

CURSOR FOR Loop: The cursor FOR loop is an elegant and natural extension
of the numeric FOR loop in PL/SQL. With a numeric FOR loop, the body of the loop
executes once for every integer value between the low and high values specified in the
range. With a cursor FOR loop, the body of the loop is executed for each row returned
by the query.
Syntax

FOR record_index in cursor_name

LOOP
{...statements...}
END LOOP;

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Example

CREATE OR REPLACE Function TotalIncome

( name_in IN varchar2 )
RETURN varchar2
IS
total_val number(6);
cursor c1 is
SELECT monthly_income
FROM employees
WHERE name = name_in;
BEGIN
total_val := 0;
FOR employee_rec in c1
LOOP
total_val := total_val + employee_rec.monthly_income;
END LOOP;
RETURN total_val;
END;

Examples: End of the day in bank. Annual salary increment for each employee of
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Lab Exercises
9.1

Lab for W1 & W2

Done.

9.2

Lab for W3

1. Create one tablespace myspace and one user. And assign the tablespace to the new
user. Create a number of objects (4 tables: T1, T2, T3 and T4) and assign one
tables data (T4) to a different tablespace myspace2.
2. Remember the following definitions:
A subquery in the WHERE clause of a SELECT statement is also called a nested
subquery.
A subquery in the FROM clause of a SELECT statement is also called an inline
view.
Now create a number of related tables at your own choice and show the functionality
of a nested subquery and an inline view.
3. Show with suitable example the difference between Left and Right Outer joins.
You must create tables with relationship among them and insert relevant records
to demonstrate it. Also show how natural join works here.

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CHAPTER 9. LAB EXERCISES

Lab for W4 FOR GROUP A

Consider the following scenario:

Bangladesh Government wants to create its national database for the various purposes.
The most essential information Government is interested to maintain are (but not limited
to) such as:
Citizen Name, Date of Birth, Permanent Address, Present Address, Occupation, Physical
Height, Photograph, Scanned copy of Signature, Monthly Salary, Blood Group.
Address should be clustered in a way that anytime for a given area all information
are available very precisely. Occupation should also be organized containing 2 layers, for
instance: Layer 1 Teaching and Layer 2: School Teaching/College Teaching.
Parts of Task A:
1. First design an ER-D for the above scenario and then write DDL statements to
create them. Your DDL should maintain the space requirements of each tables
considering the above scenario.
2. Insert some data in all relevant tables created.
3. Answer the followings:
Find all people name, DOB who are in Teaching profession. Then narrow
down to only University Teaching.
Find out top 5 professions according to salary.
Generate a report for people who are are born either in Dhaka or Khulna with
the following information: Name, DOB, Monthly Salary (if available)
Task B:
1. Show with appropriate example the use of the following built-in functions:
CONCANT, INITCAP, INSTR, LOWER, UPPER, LENGTH, L/R PAD, L/R TRIM,
SUBSTR, COUNT
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CHAPTER 9. LAB EXERCISES

Lab for W4 FOR GROUP B

Consider the following scenario:

Suppose you are given the task to automation of a large bank. The bank has more
than 1 hundred branch located at different parts of the country. Customers primarily
come to any branch of the bank and can open an account. The account could be either be
Saving or Current. Only difference between them is that of calculation of interests after
a certain time frame. The number of customer in that bank is at least several hundred
thousand. Bank wants to keep information of its Customers at least the followings:
Citizen Name, Date of Birth, Permanent Address, Present Address, Occupation, Physical Height, Photograph, Scanned copy of Signature, Monthly Salary, Blood Group.
Address should be clustered in a way that anytime for a given area all information
are available very precisely. Occupation should also be organized containing 2 layers, for
instance: Layer 1 Teaching and Layer 2: School Teaching/College Teaching.
When a customer deposits or withdraws money a transaction is made in the database
containing its ID, date and time, amount and type of operation. It is also important that
it is tracked for each transaction who is the operator. (So you need to organize employees
information of the Bank).
Parts of Task A:
Design the ER-D and then write DDL statements to create them. Your DDL should
maintain the space requirements of each tables considering the above scenario.
Insert some data in all relevant tables created.
Answer the followings:
1. Find the total number of customers at each branch where each branch has at
least 100 customers, show them in ascending order.
2. Find all customer name, DOB who are in Teaching profession. Then narrow
down to only University Teaching.
3. Find out the customers name, his home district and DOB who deposited a
total of at least 20000 BDT upto now.
Task B:
1. Show with appropriate example the use of the following built-in functions:
CONCANT, INITCAP, INSTR, LOWER, UPPER, LENGTH, L/R PAD, L/R TRIM,
SUBSTR, COUNT
2. Present an example to explain the working principal of DECODE and REGEXP SUBSTR.

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9.5

CHAPTER 9. LAB EXERCISES

Lab for W4 FOR GROUP C

Consider the following scenario:

Suppose you are given the task for automation of the result processing system of a very
large university where number of department is more than 50, and in each department
there are at least 3 programs and number of students (in total) is at least 30000 for one
year.
Each year students are admitted for a specific program. Each program has a fixed
number of semesters. In each semester a student is registered against a number of courses.
Normally one course is conducted by one teacher. Grading policy is similar to that of
IUT.
A course has its code, title, credit as attribute.
Beside academic activities, university wants to keep students basic information such
as :
Student Name, Date of Birth, Permanent Address, Present Address, Physical Height,
Photograph, Scanned copy of Signature, Department, Program, Blood Group.
Address should be clustered in a way that anytime for a given area all information
are available very precisely.
University also keeps information about extra-curricular activities of each student as
well as anti-disciplinary activities.
Parts of Task A:
Design the ER-D and then write DDL statements to create them. Your DDL should
maintain the space requirements of each tables considering the above scenario.
Insert some data in all relevant tables created.
Answer the followings:
1. Find the total number of students for each department and each program of
that department.
2. Find out list of courses (code and title) a student (his name, DOB) has taken
for a specific semester. Also it gives their corresponding letter grades for each
course. If any letter grade is not found then show NOT FOUND.
3. For a given program and semester find out total number of grade distribution
(i.e. total number got A+ for instance).
4. Find out top 3 students according to extra-curricular activities. Also list worst
3 students according to anti-disciplinary activities.
Task B:
1. Show with appropriate example the use of the following built-in functions:
CONCANT, INITCAP, INSTR, LOWER, UPPER, LENGTH, L/R PAD, L/R TRIM,
SUBSTR, COUNT
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CHAPTER 9. LAB EXERCISES

Lab for W5 FOR GROUP C

Refer to the previous assignment for week 4. Complete the pending parts.
Additional Module:
Add the following module in your design:

The university is interested to keep records of its ex-students information (i.e.

Alumni ). Expand your design so that the university can get some statistical idea
about job status of its former students both home and abroad.
Additional Queries:
1. Recall your previous task: For a given program and semester find out total number
of grade distribution (i.e. total number got A+ for instance). Now you need to write
query to show the grade distribution according to department and program. Also it
should show total number of different grades without considering department and
program (i.e. total A+/A/A-/B holder of this university).

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