-SQL-

Structured Query Language

– The Basics –

 SQL is a data manipulation language.

 SQL is not a programming language.
 SQL commands are interpreted by the DBMS engine.
 SQL commands can be used interactively as a query
language within the DBMS.
 SQL commands can be embedded within
programming languages.

CHAPTER 1

RDBMS Concepts
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Database
A database is the place of storage of the data in the form of tables
Data means information which is very useful. A database is also collection of 1 or more
tables.

Table – a table is a collection of rows and columns.

CELL

CELL

Columns

A cell is an intersection of a row and a column

A column is also called as a field / attribute
A record is also called as a row / tuple.
A table is also called as an entity / relation.

Note :-
 If we install any of the database related software(s) – we can create our own
database, we can create our own tables and we can store the data inside it.
 When we install any database s/w(s) – a part of hard disk will be designated /
reserved to perform database related activities
 A database can also contain other database objects like views, indexes, stored
procedures, functions, triggers etc, apart from tables.

Some of the database software(s) we have are,

Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix, MySQL, MS – Access, Foxbase, FoxPro

Among the above database software – some of them are DBMS and some of them are
RDBMS

The s/w which is widely used today is Oracle. The different versions of Oracle starting from
the earliest to the latest are – Oracle 2, Oracle 3, Oracle 4, Oracle 5, Oracle 6, Oracle 7,
Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, and the latest to hit the market is Oracle 11g. here ‘i’
stands for Internet and ‘g’ stands for Grid / Grid computing.

RELATIONSHIPS
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A relationship is the association between any two tables which preserves data integrity.

Relationships

Emp Salar
Dept No. Dept Name Emp No. Dept No.
Name y

10 Accounting 101 A 10 20000

Master Detail
( Parent ( Chil
) 30000 d)
20 Research 102 B 10
0

30 Sales 103 C 20 30000

Relationship helps to prevent the incorrect data in the child tables

Once the relationship is created, one table becomes master (or parent) and the other one
becomes the child ( or detail ).
Whatever we insert into the child should be present in the master, else the record will be
rejected from the child.
The master table contains the master data which will not change frequently.
The child table contains the transactional data which will change quite often.

DBMS & RDBMS

DBMS – stands for Database Management System

DBMS is a database s/w which allows us to store the data in the form of tables.

RDBMS – stands for Relational DBMS

RDBMS is also a database s/w which has facility to handle more data volume, good
performance, enhanced security features etc when compared against DBMS.
Any DBMS to qualify as a RDBMS should support the Codd rules / Codd laws

Ex for DBMS – FoxPro, FoxBase, Dbase

Ex for RDBMS – Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Teradata, SQL Server, MySQL

CONSTRAINTS
A constraint is a condition which restricts the invalid data in the table.
A constraint can be provided for a column of a table.

Types of Constraints
 NOT NULL
 UNIQUE
 Primary Key
 Foreign Key
 Check
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NULL
 NULL is nothing, it is neither zero nor blank space
 It will not occupy any space in the memory
 Two NULLS are never same in Oracle.
 NULL represents unknown value
 Any arithmetic operation we perform on NULL will result in NULL itself. For ex,
100000 + NULL = NULL ; 100000 * NULL = NULL

NOT NULL
- NOT NULL will ensure atleast some value should be present in a column

UNIQUE
 It will not allow any duplicates in a column
 UNIQUE column can take multiple NULL (s)

Primary Key
 It is the combination of NOT NULL and UNIQUE
 Only one PK is allowed in a table
 PK identifies a record uniquely in a table
 Creation of PK is not mandatory, but it is highly recommended to create

Foreign Key
 FK creates relationship between any two tables
 FK is also called as referential integrity constraints
 FK is created on the child table
 FK can take both NULL and duplicate values
 To create FK, the master table should have PK defined on the common column of the
master table
 We can have more than 1 FK in a given table

CHECK
It is used to provide additional validations as per the customer requirements.
Ex - 1) sal > 0
2) empnum should start with 1
3) commission should be between 1000 & 5000

Chec
k (sal
> 0)

Uniqu Uniqu
PK NN PK NN FK NN
e e

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 Dept Dept Emp Emp Dept Ph
Salary Email
No. name No. Name No. No.
Accountin 20000 a@gm
10 101 A 10 2222
g 0 ail

20 Research 102 B 10 30000 - -

40000
30 Sales 103 C 20 3333 -
0

RELATIONSHIP NULL

CHAPTER 2

SQL – Structured Query Language

SQL – Structured Query Language

SQL – it is a language to talk to the database / to access the database

SQL – it is a language, whereas SQL server is a database.

To work on SQL , a DB software (RDBMS) is required.
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SQL is not case sensitive

Username - Scott
Password – Tiger

Troubleshooting Oracle

Error 1
The account is locked

Steps to rectify the error

 Login as username – ‘system’ & password – ‘manager’ or ‘password – ‘tiger’
 SQL > show user ;
User is “SYSTEM”

SQL > alter user scott account unlock ;

User altered

SQL > exit ;

Error 2
TNS : protocol adapter error

How to troubleshoot this

Cause is “oracle service has not started”

How to go here,
Settings – Control Panel – Administrative Tools – Services
Sort the list
There is an “Oracle Service ORCL” & “start the service”

This query gives the list of tables.

* - selects all

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This query gives the description of the table “department”.
The description of the table has column names, constraints, datatypes

This query gives the description of the table “department”

The above query gives the description of the “employee” table. But we see that all the data
is in different lines which makes it very difficult to analyse.
So we use the following command to see the data in a more orderly fashion,

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The “set linesize” command helps in increasing the line size , thus the data is arranged in
a orderly fashion.

The above command “set pagesize 20” increases the page size, thus accommodating
more number of rows in a single page.

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The above query gives the value of only these 3 columns from the table “employee”.

‘where’ clause is used to restrict the number of records displayed. It gives only the records
of the specified condition.

Any string data should be enclosed within single quotes ( ‘ ‘ ) and the same becomes
case sensitive.

Assignment
1) List the employees in dept 20

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2) List the employees earning more than Rs 2500.

3) Display all salesmen

CHAPTER 3

OPERATORS
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Operators are classified into,
 Arithmetic Operators ( +, - , * , / )
 Relational Operators ( > , < , >= , <= , = , < > or != - not equals to )
 Logical Operators ( NOT, AND, OR )
 Special Operators ( IN , LIKE , BETWEEN , IS )

SPECIAL OPERATORS

1) IN – it is used for evaluating multiple values.

Ex – 1) List the employees in dept 10 & 20

2) List all the clerks and analysts

We can provide upto 1000 values at the max

2) LIKE – used for pattern matching

% (percentage) - matches 0 or ‘n’ characters

_ (underscore) - matches exactly one character
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Ex – 1) List all the employees whose name starts with ‘S’

Whenever we use % or _ , always ensure that it is preceded by the word ‘like’

2) List the employees whose name is having letter ‘L’ as 2nd character

ASSIGNMENT
1) List the employees whose name is having atleast 2 L’s

2) List the employees whose name is having letter ‘E’ as the last but one
character

3) List all the employees whose name is having letter ‘R’ in the 3 rd position

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In the above query, we give 2 underscores before R%.

4) List all the employees who are having exactly 5 characters in their jobs

Here , in single quotes – we give 5 underscores.

5) List the employees whose name is having atleast 5 characters

Here, also in single quotes – we give 5 underscores ( _____ )

3) BETWEEN operator – used for searching based on range of values.

Ex – 1) List the employees whose salary is between 200 and 300

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4) IS operator – it is used to compare nulls
Ex – 1) List all the employees whose commission is null

ASSIGNMENT
1) List all the employees who don’t have a reporting manager

LOGICAL OPERATORS

1) List all the salesmen in dept 30

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2) List all the salesmen in dept number 30 and having salary greater than 1500

3) List all the employees whose name starts with ‘s’ or ‘a’

4) List all the employees except those who are working in dept 10 & 20.

5) List the employees whose name does not start with ‘S’

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6) List all the employees who are having reporting managers in dept 10

ASSIGNMENT
1) List the employees who are not working as managers and clerks in dept 10 and
20 with a salary in the range of 1000 to 3000

2) List the employees whose salary not in the range of 1000 to 2000 in dept
10,20,30 except all salesmen

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3) List the department names which are having letter ‘O’ in their locations as well
as their department names

SORTING
It arranges the data either in ascending / descending order
Ascending – ASC / Descending – DESC
We can sort the data using ORDER BY

By default, the data is always arranged in ASC order

For ex – 1) Arrange all the employees by their salary

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2) Arrange all the employees by their salary in the descending order

3) Arrange ename, sal, job, empno and sort by descending order of salary

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In the above query we have – order by 2 – thus it arranges only the 2 nd column ‘salary’ in
the descending order.
Thus to arrange the specific columns in order – we must have to specify the column
number.

NOTE :- ORDER BY should be used always as the last statement in the SQL query.

Selecting DISTINCT VALUES

The above query arranges all the distinct values of department number.

CHAPTER 4

GROUP functions and Grouping

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We have 5 GROUP functions,
1) Sum
2) Max
3) Min
4) Avg
5) Count

Sum – returns total value

Max – returns maximum value
Min – returns minimum value
Avg – returns average value
Count – returns number of records

Ex – 1) display the maximum salary, minimum salary and total salary from
employee

To give aliases for the columns :-

3) The below query gives the total number of employees

4) The below query gives the number of employees who have commission

5) List the number of employees in department 30

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ASSIGMENT
1) Display the total salary in department 30

2) List the number of clerks in department 20

3) List the highest and lowest salary earned by salesmen

GROUPING
It is the process of computing the aggregates by segregating based on one or more
columns.

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Grouping is done by using ‘group by’ clause.

For ex – 1) Display the total salary of all departments

2) Display the maximum of each job

HAVING
‘Having’ is used to filter the grouped data.
‘Where’ is used to filter the non grouped data.

‘Having’ should be used after group by clause

‘Where’ should be used before group by clause

For ex – 1) Display job-wise highest salary only if the highest salary is more than
Rs1500

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2) Display job-wise highest salary only if the highest salary is more than 1500
excluding department 30. Sort the data based on highest salary in the ascending
order.

RESTRICTIONS ON GROUPING
- we can select only the columns that are part of ‘group by’ statement
If we try selecting other columns, we will get an error as shown below,

The above query is an error because ‘job’ is there in the select query but not in the group
by query.
If it is enclosed in any of the group functions like sum(sal) etc – then it is not an error.
But whatever table is included in the select query must also be included in the group by
query.

The above problem can be overcome with the following query as shown below,

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The below query is also correct to rectify the above error,

Whatever is there in the select statement must be there in the group by statement. But,
whatever is there in the group by statement need not be present in the select statement.
This is shown in the above two corrected queries.

ASSIGNMENT
1) Display the department numbers along with the number of employees in it

2) Display the department numbers which are having more than 4 employees in
them

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3) Display the maximum salary for each of the job excluding all the employees
whose name ends with ‘S’

4) Display the department numbers which are having more than 9000 as their
departmental total salary

NOTE :
To clear the screen, the command used is,
cl scr ;

if it is a large query and we cannot type it repeatedly, then type in – SQL > ed ;
when we type ed ; - we get the notepad – after making the necessary changes – then
click on the ‘x’ i.e, the close button at the top right corner – then click on yes when a
dialog box asking whether to overwrite the file comes – after this it comes to the oracle
screen – in the next line , enter ‘/ ‘ and hit on enter button – another way of ending the
query is by typing ‘ / ‘ in the next line of the query – this indicates the end of the query.

CHAPTER 5

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STATEMENTS
CREATE – It creates the table.

Before we study the Create command, let us first study the some of the basic datatypes
we use in SQL.

1) CHAR :-
It stores the fixed length character data.
It can store the alphanumeric data (i.e, numbers and characters).

2) VARCHAR
It stores the variable length character data
It can store alphanumeric data. Statements – they help us to create the table and insert
the data.

There are 3 types of statements,

 DDL – Data Definition Language – the various commands in DDL are :- Create, Drop,
Truncate, Alter, Rename
 DML – Data Manipulation Language – the various commands in DML are :- Insert,
Update, Delete
 TCL – Transaction Control Language – the various commands in TCL are :- Rollback,
Commit, Savepoint

Difference between CHAR & VARCHAR

Let us consider an example as shown below to explain the difference.

Name char (6) ;

Here we are defining name which is of 6characters in length.
Now, let us store ‘Tom’ in the name field. Let us understand how the memory is allocated
for this,

Blank Space

T O M - - -

Reserved / Non-reusable
memory
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When we declare anything of type char, the memory is allocated as of the size given and
its fixed length – hence it cannot be altered.
Now, when we give tom, it allocates 6 bytes for name char – only the 1st 3bytes are used
to store Tom – the rest becomes waste as it is a blank space and it is reserved memory.
The length(name) = 6.

Name varchar (6) ;

Here we are defining name which is of 6 characters in length.
Now, let us store ‘Tom’ in the name field. Let us understand how the memory is allocated
for this,

Null

T O M . . .

Re-usable memory

When we declare anything of type varchar, the memory is allocated as shown above and it
is variable length
When we give tom, it allocates 6bytes for name varchar – only the 1st 3bytes are used to
store tom – the remaining 3 fields becomes null. As we know the property of null – null
does not occupy any memory space – thus the memory is not wasted here.
The length(name) = 3.

Another difference is : -
In char, maximum value we can store is 2000 characters
In varchar, maximum value we can store is 4000 characters.

3) NUMBER
- it stores numeric data.
For ex – 1) sal number(4) ;
Here the maximum possible value is 9999.

2) sal number (6, 2) ;

Here, 2 – scale (total number of decimal places)
6 – precision (total number of digits including decimal places)
Maximum value is 9999.99
sal number (4, 3) ;
maximum value is 9.999
sal number (2, 2)
maximum value is .99
4) DATE
- it stores date and time
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- no need to specify any length for this type.

For ex, SQL > order_dt DATE ;

Date is always displayed in the default format :- dd – month – yy

NOTE :-
varchar2 – from 10g, varchar & varchar2 are the same.
Earlier, varchar was supporting upto 2000 characters and varchar2 was
supporting upto 4000 characters.

5) BLOB
Stands for – Binary Large Object
It stores binary data (images, movies, music files) within the database. It stores upto 4GB.

6) CLOB
Stands for – Character Large Object
It stores plain character data like varchar field upto 4GB.

Create the following tables

PRODUCTS
ProdID ( PK )
ProdName ( Not Null )
Qty ( Chk > 0 )
Description

ORDERS
ProdID ( FK from products )
OrderID ( PK )
Qty_sold ( chk > 0 )
Price
Order_Date

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We can see that the table has been created.
Now, let us verify if the table has really been created and also the description of the table,

The new table products has been added to the database.

Thus, we get the description of the table products.

The new table orders has been created. We can see from the above query how to
reference a child table to the parent table using the references keyword.

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Thus we can verify that orders table has ben created and added to the database.

Thus, we get the description of the orders table.

Creating a table from another table :-

Now, we will see how to create a table from another table – i.e, it duplicates all the records
and the characterstics of another table.
The SQL query for it is as follows,

Thus we can see that we have created another table temp from the table dept.
We can verify it as shown below,

Thus, we can see that the table temp has been created.

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Thus, we can see that the table temp has copied the structure of the table dept. Here, we
must observe that temp copies all the columns, rows and NOT NULL constraints only from
the table dept. It never copies PK, FK, Check constraints.
Thus, when in the interview somebody asks you “I have a table which has about
1million records. How do I duplicate it into another table without using Insert
keyword and without inserting it individually all the records into the duplicated
table ?
Answer is - Use the above query of creating a table from another table and
explain it.

Thus, from the above query – we can see that all the records of the table dept has been
copied into the table temp.

TRUNCATE

It removes all the data permanently, but the structure of the table remains as it is.
Ex – SQL > TRUNCATE TABLE test ;

DROP

It removes both data and the structure of the table permanently from the database.
Ex – SQL > DROP TABLE test ;

Let us understand the difference between drop & truncate using the below shown
example,

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Let us create 2 tables Test1 and Test2 as shown above.

The above shows the description of the table test1.

The above gives the description of the table Test2.

Now, let us use the Truncate query on Test1 and Drop query on Test2 and see the
difference.

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The above 3 queries show that – 1st query has the table test1 truncated.
2nd query – it shows no rows selected – thus only the records from the table has been
removed. 3rd query – it shows that the structure of the table is still present. Only the records
will be removed.
Thus, this explains the truncate query.

Thus from the above queries we can explain how drop works. 1st query – it drops the table.
Thus – the entire structure and records of the table are dropped.
2nd and 3rd query – since, there is no table – select & desc query for test2 will throw an
error.
Thus, this explains the drop query.
Hence, we have seen the difference between drop & truncate query.

10g Recycle Bin

TABLE

DROP

RECYC FLASHBACK
LE
RESTORE IT
BIN
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 PURGE

The functionality of Recycle Bin was introduced in Oracle 10G version only. Thus even
though the table has been dropped, we can still restore it using flashback command or
we can permanently remove it using the purge command.
This concept of Recycle bin was not there in the earlier versions of Oracle.

RENAME

It renames a table.
For ex, let us see the query of how we do this renaming a table.

In the above 3queries – we have created a table temp which copies table dept – we see
the records of the table temp – and also check if the table has really been created.

Now let us rename temp to temp23 as shown below,

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The above query is used to rename a table.
Now let us verify the contents of the table and check if it has really been modified,
See next page,

Thus the table has been renamed and its contents are verified.

ALTER

- this query alters / changes the structure of the table (i.e, - adding columns, removing
columns, renaming columns etc ).
Now let us alter the table products (which we have created earlier).
1) Let us add a new column ‘model_no’ to the table.

Thus, a new column has been added. Lets verify it with the query shown below,

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2) Now let us drop the column model_no from products.

Thus, the column has been dropped.

Thus, we can see from the description of the table – the column model_no has been
dropped.

3) Let us rename the column qty to qty_available.

Let us verify if it has been renamed,

NOTE : SELECT is neither DML nor DDL. It does not belong to any group because
it does not alter anything, it just displays the data as required by the user.
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DML
INSERT

It inserts a record to a table.

Let us observe how it is done,

This is how we insert values into a table. All characters and alpha-numeric characters(ex –
10023sdf78) must be enclosed in single quotes (‘ ‘ ) and each value must be separated by
comma. Also we must be careful in entering the data without violating the primary key,
foreign key , unique constraints.

Now let us see the table in which the data in has been inserted,

Now, let us insert data into the table orders in which a foreign key is referencing primary
key,

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Here, we see that 1001 is the same prodid as of the earlier table. Sysdate – it displays the
current date set in the system .

Now, let us see the table,

Another way of inserting data into the table is shown below,

Now, let us see the table,

UPDATE :-

It updates one or more records.

For ex – 1) Let us update salary by increasing it by Rs200 and also give commission of
Rs100 where empno = 7369.

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Now, let us update the said record as shown below,

Let us verify if the record has been updated,

Thus, the record(empno – 7369) has been updated.

2) Increase all salary by 10%

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Let us verify it,

DELETE

It deletes one / some / all the records.

Let us create a table test from table emp – and see how to delete 1 record and how to
delete all records from it,

Thus, we have created the table test.

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Thus 1 row, ‘miller’ has been deleted.

Thus, the deletion has been confirmed.

TCL
Any DML change on a table is not a permanent one.
We need to save the DML changes in order to make it permanent
We can also undo (ignore) the same DML changes on a table.

The DDL changes cannot be undone as they are implicitly saved.

ROLLBACK

It undoes the DML changes performed on a table.

Let us see in the below example how rollback works,

Let us delete the employee table. When we perform select operation on emp, we can see
that all the rows have been deleted.
We now perform the rollback operation,

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Now let us perform the select operation,

Thus performing the rollback operation, we can retrieve all the records which had been
deleted.

COMMIT

It saves the DML changes permanently to the database.

Committing after rollback & vice versa will not have any effect
Let us explain the above statement with an example,

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We can see that commit has no effect after rollback operation.

Thus, from above – we can see that rollback has no effect after commit operation.

During an abnormal exit – i.e, shutdown or if the SQL window is closed by mouse click –
then all the DML’s will be rolled back automatically.

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During a normal exit – exit ; - all the DML’s will be auto-committed – and there will be no
rollback.

Ex – 1) INSERT
UPDATE
ALTER
DELETE
ROLLBACK

When we perform the following operations in the same order for a table – then INSERT,
UPDATE will be committed – because ALTER is a DDL – and thus all the DML’s above it will
also be committed – because DDL operations cannot be undone.
Here – only DELETE will be rolled back because it’s a DML.

2) INSERT
UPDATE
DELETE
ROLLBACK
Here, all are rolled back.

SAVEPOINT :

It is like a pointer (break-point) till where a DML will be rolled back.

Ex :-
Insert …

Save point x ;
Update …
Delete ..

Rollback to x ;
…
…

Here, only DELETE & UPDATE are rolled back.

INSERT is neither rolled back nor committed.

Assignments
1) Create the following tables

a) Table name :- STUDENTS

regno (PK)
name (NN)
semester
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DOB
Phone

b) Table name :- BOOKS

bookno (PK)
bname
author

c) Table name :- LIBRARY

regno (FK from students)
bookno (FK from books)
DOI –date of issue
DOR – date of return

2) Insert 5 records to each of these tables

3) Differentiate between,
a) Delete and Truncate
b) Truncate and Drop
c) Char and Varchar
d) Drop and Delete

Delete and Truncate

a) Delete – deletes whichever records we want to delete from the table
Truncate – deletes all the records whether we want it or not

b) Delete – can be undone

Truncate – cannot be undone.

NOTE – The Primary Key created using more than 1 column is called as composite
primary key.
Ex – alter table lib
Add primary key (regno, bookno, DOI) ;

CHAPTER 6

SUB - QUERIES

A sub-query is also called as a nested query.

Syntax of a sub-query
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 Select …
From …
Where … ( select …
From …
Where …
)

OUTER QUERY INNER QUERY

Here, the inner query will be executed first.

The output of inner query is passed as input to the outer query.

To write a sub-query, atleast 1 common column should be existing between the tables.

For ex :-
1) List the employees working in ‘Research’ department.

2) List the department names that are having analysts

3) List the employees in Research and Sales department

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Assignment
1) List the department names which are having salesmen in it.

2) Display the employees whose location is having atleast one ‘O’ in it.

3) List the department names that are having atleast 1 employee in it.

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4) List the department names that are having atleast 4 employees in it

5) Display the department names which are having atleast 2clerks in it

6) Display the 2nd maximum salary

7) Display the 3rd maximum salary

8) Display the 4th least salary

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This method is not efficient to find the maximum and minimum salary. The limit is 32. This
is not efficient if you want to find the 100 th maximum salary.
We can have upto 32 levels of sub-queries only.

9) List the department names that are having no employees at all

CHAPTER 7

JOIN

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Joins are used when we need to fetch the data from multiple tables

Types of JOIN(s)
 Cartesian Join (product)
 Inner (Equi) Join
 Outer Join - Left Outer Join, Right Outer Join, Full Outer Join
 Self Join

CARTESIAN JOIN
- It is based on Cartesian product theory.

Cartesian Product Theory in Mathematics states that :-

Let there be two sets – A {1, 2, 3} & B {4, 5}
Thus the Cartesian product (A*B) will be,
A * B = { (1,4), (1,5), (2,4), (2,5), (3,4), (3,5) }
Thus there are 6 sets – order of A is 3 & order of B is 2. Therefore, 2*3 = 6 is the
Cartesian product.

Here, each and every record of the 1 st table will combine with each and every record of the
2nd table.
If a table A is having 10 records & B is having 4 records – the Cartesian join will return 10*4
= 40 records.

For ex, let us consider the following query

Display employee name along with the department name

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From above – we can see that the above query returns 56 records – but we are expecting
14 records. This is because each and every record of employee table will be combined with
each & every record of department table.
Thus, Cartesian join should not be used in real time scenarios.
The Cartesian join contains both correct and incorrect sets of data. We have to retain the
correct ones & eliminate the incorrect ones by using the inner join.

INNER JOIN
Inner join are also called as equijoins.
They return the matching records between the tables.
In the real time scenarios, this is the most frequently used Join.

For ex, consider the query shown below,

Select A.ename, A.sal, B.dname

From emp A, dept B
Where A.deptno = B.deptno - JOIN condition
And A.sal > 2000 - FILTER condition
Order by A.sal ;

Let us see the output shown below,

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JOIN condition is mandatory for removing the Cartesian output.

Let us consider the following 2 scenarios shown below,

Scenario 1
A
P Q R

B
P S T

C
P X Y

We want
P Q S X

The SQL query will be,

Select A.P, A.Q, B.S, C.X

From A, B, C
Where A.P = B.P Number of joins = 2
And A.P = C.P

Therefore, Number of JOINS = Number of

tables - 1

Scenario 2
A
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 P Q R

B
P Q S T

C
P X Y

We want
P Q R S X

The SQL query is ,

Select A.P, A.Q, A.R, B.S, C.X

From A, B, C
Where A.P = B.P
And A.Q = B.Q Number of Joins = 3
And A.P = C.P ;

Therefore, Number of JOINS = Number of common

columns
If there are no common columns, then reject it saying that the two tables can be joined.

But there are some cases – where the 2 columns will be same but having different column
names.
For ex – customerid & cid

Display employee name, his job, his dname and his location for all the managers
living in New York or Chicago

ANSI style JOINS

This was introduced from Oracle 9i.
It is another way of writing inner joins with a few modifications.
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Thus we, can see the changes ,
 In the 2nd line - ,(comma) has been replaced by the word ‘join’
 In the 3rd line – ‘where’ has been replaced with ‘on’

Assignment

1) Display employee name and his department name for the employees whose
name starts with ‘S’

OUTER JOIN
It returns both matching and non-matching records

Outer join = inner join + non-matching records

Non-matching records means data present in one table, but absent in another table w.r.to
common columns.
For ex, 40 is there in deptno of dept table, but not there in deptno of emp table.

Display all the department names irrespective of any employee working in it or

not. If an employee is working – display his name.

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Using right join

Using left join

Using full join

A B

10 6

3 3

A CJ B = 60records A IJ B = 3records(3 matching)

A LJ B = 10records (3matching + 7non matching of A)
A RJ B = 6records (3matching + 3non matching of B)
A FJ B = 13records (3matching of A & B + 7nonmatching of A + 3nonmatching of
B)
Assignment
1) Display employee name and his department name for the employees whose
name starts with ‘S’
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2) Display employee name and his department name who is earning 1 st maximum
salary

SELF JOIN
Joining a table to itself is called self join

The FROM clause looks like this,

FROM emp A, emp B

Or

FROM emp A join emp B - ANSI style

For ex, - Display employee name along with their manager name

Now, let us see how this i.e the logic (the above query) works,

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 Emp (A)
Emp (B)
EmpNo Ename Mgr
EmpNo Ename Mgr
101 Scott 102
101 Scott 102
102 Blake 103
102 Blake 103
103 King -
103 King -
104 Smith 103
104 Smith 103
105 Jones 104
105 Jones 104

Now, when we give the above query – in Oracle – it starts matching the ‘ mgr’ column of
emp A with the ‘empno’ of emp b – we get two tables because in self join – a duplicate of
the table required is created.

Now let us consider the first employee Scott – it starts the mgrid of Scott with the
empno of all the records in emp B – when two ids match, then the empno in emp B
becomes the mgr of the empno in emp A. Thus, we can see that – mgr id 102 is matching
with empno 102 Blake in emp B. Therefore, Blake is the manager of Scott.
Similarly we do the same for all the other records of emp A and thus find the employees
and their respective managers.

Display the employees who are getting the same salary

Co – related Queries :

 They are special type of sub – queries

 Here, both outer & inner queries are inter-dependent
 For each & every record of outer query, the entire inner query will be executed
 They work on the principles of both sub – queries & JOIN(s).

For ex, Display the employee who is earning the highest salary

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Thus, if an outer query column is being accessed inside the inner query, then that query is
said to be co-related.

Let us see the logic i.e, how we get the 1 st max salary :-

Emp (A)
EmpNo Ename Sal
300
101 Scott
0
400 Emp (B)
102 Blake
0 EmpNo Ename Sal
500 300
103 King 101 Scott
0 0
200 400
104 Smith 102 Blake
0 0
100 500
105 Jones 103 King
0 0
200
104 Smith
Since co-related queries are a 0 combination of Joins and
sub-queries. 105 Jones
100
It follows the concept of Joins and 0 creates multiple copies of
the same table.
Then it takes 1st record i.e, - Blake – sal is 3000. It starts comparing with the sal in the emp
table,
3000 = 3000 - count starts from 0 – thus, 0 = 0
3000 < 4000 – thus, 0 ! = 1
3000 < 5000 – thus, 0 ! = 2
3000 > 2000 – thus , 0! = 2
3000 > 1000 – thus, 0 ! = 2 if the condition becomes false, then the count
increments by 1. Here 3000 is less than 4000 & 5000, thus 0 ! = 2. Thus , Blake does not
have the highest salary.

Similarly, it does for the next records,

Blake – salary of 4000 – but 4000 < 5000 – thus, 0 ! = 1. This is also false.
King – salary of 5000 – it is greater than everything – thus, 0 = 0. Thus, King has the highest
salary.
But the query doesn’t stop here, it checks for Smith & Jones as well.

Similarly, if we want to find the 2nd maximum salary,

Then in the query, change ‘0’ to ‘1’ & here, the logic is – it compares until it gets 1 = 1.
For 3rd maximum salary – change 0 to 2 and so on – here, the logic is – it compares until it
gets 2 = 2.

For any highest, always put it as ‘0’ in the query.

If you want n(th) salary, pass (n-1).

In interview – this is a definite question. They will ask you what is co-related
queries. And then they’ll ask you find, 1 st or max or 3rd maximum salary – after
you write the query – they will ask you to explain the logic as to how it gets the
same – draw the table and explain it to them just as shown above.

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Assignment

1) Display the least salary from the employee table.

2) Display top 3 person’s salaries from the employee table.

3) Write a query to display bottom 3 salaries

4) Display 1st and 4th maximum salary

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5) Display 1st, 4th & 6th highest salaries in a single query

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 CHAPTER 8

FUNCTIONS

Functions – it is a re-usable program that returns a value.

There are 2 types,

 Pre – defined
 User defined

Pre – defined
 GROUP functions
 CHARACTER functions
 NUMERIC functions
 DATE functions
 SPECIAL functions

These are used both in SQL and PL/SQL. PL – Procedural Language (it’s a extension to SQL,
can contain IF statements, loops, exceptions, OOPs, etc .. )

User – defined
Used only in PL/SQL and we will not study it here.

We have already learnt about GROUP functions.

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Now, let us study the various CHARACTER functions.
CHARACTER functions
a) Upper
b) Lower
c) Length

For ex :-

In the 1st query, we see something called as dual.

Dual – is a dummy table which is used for performing some independent operations which
will not depend on any of the existing tables.

For ex,

1)

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This gives the system date.

2)

3)

We use dual – when the data is not present in any of the existing tables. Then we use dual.

Length – it returns the length of a given string.

For ex,
1)

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2)

3) Display all the employees whose name & job is having exactly 5 characters

REPLACE
It replaces the old value with a new value in the given string.

For ex,

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Here, a – is the old value to be replaced with p – which is the new value.

This query replaces all the names which has ‘A’ in it with ‘B’.

Let us see the output as shown below,

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SUBSTR
This is called substring.
It extracts ‘n’ characters from x(th) position of a given string.
For ex,

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Here , (job, ‘1’ , ‘3’) – means from job – extract from 1st position , 3 characters.

1) Display the employees whose job starts with ‘man’

2) Display the employees whose job ends with ‘man’

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INSTR
This is also called as instring.
It returns position of a given character in a given string.
For ex,

Select instr (‘oracle’ , ‘a’ , 1 , 1) from dual ;

Given string

Character to be searched

Position from where the search should begin

Number of occurences

Display all the employees whose name is having ‘L’

List the employees whose job is having atleast 2 A’s in it

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CONCAT
It concatenates any two values or columns.
It is represented by - ||

For ex,

NUMERIC FUNCTIONS

1) Mod :- it returns the remainder when 1 number is divided by the other.

Display the employees earning odd numbered salaries.

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Round
It rounds off a given number to the nearest decimal place.

Trunc
It truncates the given number to the given decimal place. Truncate does not do any
rounding.

For ex,

Here, ‘1’ indicates the number of positions.

DATE FUNCTIONS

1) Sysdate
Stands for System date.
It returns both date & time, but by default – only date is displayed.
The default format is,
dd – mon – yy

2) Systimestamp
Introduced from Oracle 9i
Returns date, time and timezone.

Here, .914000 – gives the fraction of millisecond which keeps changing as shown below,

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In interview – if they ask you – “ which function contains fractions of a second “
OR “how to see the system time “ – then answer is “SYSTIMESTAMP”.

SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

1) TO – CHAR
Used for displaying the date in different formats.

For ex,

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Now, let us see how to add 5 hrs to the existing time,

We can see that 5 hrs has been added to the current time.

NVL
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It substitutes a value for a null.

For ex,

The above query means – if the employee has commission, then add sal + comm. To get
total salary – else add 0 to the sal and display total salary.

DECODE
It works like ‘if – then – else’ statement.
For ex,

The above query states that – in job, if clerk is there, replace with C – else if salesman is
there, replace it with S – else replace with ‘O’.

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Display employee name, job, salary and commission. If the commission is NULL,
then display -100

Display all employees whose name is having exactly 1 ‘L’ in it

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 CHAPTER 9

NORMALIZATION

Normalization is the process of splitting the bigger table into many small tables without
changing its functionality.
It is generally carried out during the design phase of SDLC.

Advantages
1) it reduces the redundancy (unnecessary repeatation of data)
2) avoids problem due to delete anamoly (inconsistency)

Normalization is a step-by-step process and in each step, we have to perform some

activities.

STEPS IN NORMALIZATION
1) 1NF – 1st Normal form
2) 2NF – 2nd Normal form
3) 3NF – 3rd Normal form

1NF
- We should collect all the required attributes into 1 or more bigger entities.
- We have to assume no 2 records are same (i.e, records should not be duplicated)
- Identify the probable primary key

At the end of 1NF, our data looks like this,

COLLEGE

RegNo - PK
Sname
Semester
DOB
MailID
Phone
BookNo - PK
Bname
Author
DOI
DOR
Fine

2NF
To perform 2NF,
- The tables have to be in 1NF
- Here, we identify all the complete dependencies and move them separately into different
tables.

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At the end of 2NF, our data looks like this,
STUDENTS BOOKS

RegNo - PK BookNo - PK
Sname RegNo - FK
Semester Bname
DOB Author
MailID DOI
Phone DOR
Fine

3NF
The table will have to be in 2NF
Here, we identify all the partial dependencies and move such columns to a separate table.

STUDENTS BOOKS LIBRARY

RegNo - PK BookNo - PK BookNo - FK

Sname Bname RegNo - FK
Semester Author DOI
DOB DOR
MailID Fine
Phone

Disadvantage of Normalization
The only minor disadvantage is we may have to write complex queries as we have more
number of tables to be accessed.

Denormalization is the process of combining more than 1 smaller table to form 1 bigger
table is called as denormalization.

CODD rules ( Differentiates between DBMS & RDBMS )

1) should support NULL values
2) should support creation of relationship between tables
3) should support DDL, DML, TCL
4) should support constraints like PK, Unique, CHK
5) should support query techniques like sub – queries, joins, grouping etc.

Oracle 9i Features (i means internet)

- TIMESTAMP datatype
- SYSTIMESTAMP function
- ANSI style joins
- Renaming a column

Oracle 10g features (g means grid)

- Recycle Bin

ERD - Entity Relationship Diagram

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It is the pictorial representation of all the entities and their relationships (tables).

STUDENTS

RegNo - PK
Sname
Semester
DOB
MailID
Phone

STUDENTS _
INTERNALS

RegNo - FK
Sid
Marks

BOOKS

BookNo - PK
BName
Author
LIBRARY

BookNo - FK
RegNo - FK
DOI
DOR
Fine

***** THE END *****

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