Handy annotations-within-oracle-10g

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Handy Annotations within Oracle 10g
Mrs.Dhanamma Jagli, Ms.Priyanka Gaikwad, Ms.Shubhangi Gunjal, Mr.Chaitanya Bilaware,
1
Assistant Professor, Department of MCA,
V.E.S. Institute of Technology, Mumbai-74, India.
2,3,4
M.C.A IInd
Year Students
1
nakrekanti@gmail.com,
2
gaikwad.priyanka07@gmail.com,
3
gshubhu@gmail.com,
4
chaitanya.bilaware@gmail.com.
Abstract. This paper describes practical observations during the Database system Lab. Oracle 10g DBMS is used in the data base
system lab and performed SQL queries based many concepts like Data Definition Language Commands (DDL), Data Modification
Language Commands ((DML), Views, Integrity Constraints, Aggregate functions, Joins and Abstract type . While performing
practical during the lab session, many problems occurred, in order to solve them many text books and websites referred but couldn’t
obtain expected help from them. Even though by spending much time in the database labs with Oracle 10g, tried in numerous ways,
as a final point expected output is achieved. This paper describes annotations which were experimentally proved in the Database lab.
Keywords: Oracle 10g;,Annotations; SQL;

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I. Introduction
Relational database query languages, like SQL, have played
an essential role in the development of relational database
systems [2].
a) Relational Database
The relational model is today the primary data model for
commercial at processing applications. It attained its primary
position because of its simplicity, which eases the job of the
programmer, compared to earlier data models such as the
network model or the hierarchical model. A relational
database consists of a collection of tables, each of which is
assigned a unique name. Thus, in the relational model the term
relation is used to refer to a table, while the term tuple is used
to refer to a row. Similarly, the term attribute refers to a
column of a table[1][2].
b) Importance of SQL for relational Model
There are a number of database query languages in use,
either commercially or experimentally. In this Paper, the
most widely used query language, SQL with Oracle 10g is
used. Although it refer to the SQL language as a “query
language,” it can do much more than just query a database. It
can define the structure of the data, modify data in the
database, and specify security constraints[2].
II. About oracle 10g
The Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle
RDBMS or simply as Oracle) is an object-relational database
management System (ORDBMS) produced and marketed
by Oracle Corporation [3].Oracle10g is the latest version of
the Oracle DBMS, released early 2004.One of the main
focuses of this release was self management. Central self-
diagnostic engine built into core database (Automatic
Database Diagnostic Monitor or ADDM) for self managing
purpose, it can be seen in below Fig.1.
Figure 1: Manageability Infrastructure
a) History
When Oracle was founded in 1977 as Software
Development Laboratories by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and
Ed Oats, there were no commercial relational database
products [2]. The company, which was later renamed Oracle,
set out to build a relational database management system as a
commercial product, and became a pioneer of the RDBMS
market and has held a leading position in this market ever
since. Over the years, its product and service offerings have
grown beyond the relational database server to include
middleware and applications. In addition to products
developed inside the company, Oracle’s offerings include
software that was originally developed in companies that
Oracle acquired. Oracle’s acquisitions have ranged from small
companies to large, publicly traded ones, including People
soft, Siebel, Hyperion, and BEA. As a result of these
acquisitions, Oracle has a very broad portfolio of enterprise
software products. New versions of the products are being
developed continually, so all product descriptions are subject
to change. The feature set described here is based on the first
release of Oracle11g, which is Oracle’s flagship database
product.
b) Competition
In the market for relational databases, Oracle Database
competes against commercial products such as
IBM's DB2 UDB and Microsoft SQL Server. Oracle and IBM
tend to battle for the mid-range database market on UNIX and
Linux platforms, while Microsoft dominates the mid-range
database market on Microsoft Windows platforms. However,
since they share many of the same customers, Oracle and IBM
tend to support each other's products in many middleware and
application categories (for example: WebSphere, PeopleSoft,
and Siebel CRM), and IBM's hardware divisions work
closely with Oracle on performance-optimizing server-
technologies. The two companies have a relationship
perhaps best described as "coopetition". Niche commercial

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competitors include Teradata (in data warehousing and
business intelligence), Software AG's ADABAS,Sybase, and
IBM's Informix, among many others.
Increasingly, the Oracle database products compete against
such open-source software relational database systems
as PostgreSQL,Firebird, and MySQL. Oracle
acquired Innobase, supplier of the InnoDB codebase to
MySQL, in part to compete better against open source
alternatives, and acquired Sun Microsystems, owner of
MySQL, in 2010. Database products licensed as open source
are, by the legal terms of the Open Source Definition, free to
distribute and free of royalty or other licensing fees [3].
c) Types of Oracle 10g Products
Enterprise Edition As of July 2010, the database that costs
the most per machine-processor among Oracle database
editions. The term "per processor" for Enterprise Edition is
defined with respect to physical cores and a processor core
multiplier. e.g. an 8-processor, 32-core server using Intel Xeon
56XX CPUs would require 16 processor licenses[3].
Standard Edition Cheaper, it can run on up to four
processors but has fewer features than Enterprise Edition—it
lacks proper parallelization, etc.; but remains quite suitable for
running medium-sized applications.
Standard ONE Sells even more cheaply, but remains
limited to two CPUs. Standard Edition ONE sells on a per-seat
basis with a five-user minimum. Oracle Corporation usually
sells the licenses with an extra cost for support and upgrades
which customers need to renew annually.
Oracle Express Edition (Oracle XE) An addition to the
Oracle database product family offers a free version of the
Oracle RDBMS, but one limited to 11 GB of user data and to
1 GB of memory used by the database (SGA+PGA). XE will
use no more than one CPU and lacks an internal JVM. XE
runs only on Windows and on Linux.
d) Advanced object-relational Features
Oracle has extensive support for object-relational
constructs, including:
 Object types. A single-inheritance model is supported for
type hierarchies.
 Collection types. Oracle supports varrays, which are
variable length arrays, and nested tables.
 Object tables. These are used to store objects while
providing a relational view of the attributes of the objects.
 Table functions. These are functions that produce sets of
rows as output, and can be used in the from clause of a
query. Table functions in Oracle can be nested. If a table
function is used to express some form of data
transformation, nesting multiple functions allows multiple
transformations to be expressed in a single statement.
 Object views. These provide a virtual object table view of
data stored in a regular relational table. They allow data to
be accessed or viewed in an object-oriented style even if
the data are really stored in a traditional relational format.
 Methods. These can be written in PL/SQL, Java, or C.
 User-defined aggregate functions. These can be used in
SQL statements in the same way as built-in functions
such as sum and count.
III. Annotations
A. DDL:
Data-definition language (DDL). The SQL DDL provides
commands for defining relation schemas, deleting relations, and
modifying relation schemas. In this paper, students schema is used
for queries purpose. Creating students table:
SQL> CREATE TABLE STUDENTS(S_ROLL
NUMBER(2),
2 S_NAME VARCHAR(20),
3 S_ADDRESS VARCHAR(20),
4 S_PHONE NUMBER(10),
5 DOB DATE,
6 S_MARKS INTEGER);
Table created.
After creating table with attribute data type for integer
takes default size as 38 and varchar is displaying as varchar2
because of oracle standard, that observation can be seen in the
following code.
Describing structure of created table:
SQL> DESC STUDENTS;
Name Null? Type
---------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
S_ROLL NUMBER(2)
S_NAME VARCHAR2(20)
S_ADDRESS VARCHAR2(20)
S_PHONE NUMBER(10)
DOB DATE
S_MARKS NUMBER(38)
B. DML :
Data-manipulation language (DML). The DML provides the
ability to query information from the database and to insert
tuples into, delete tuples from, and modify tuples in the
database. Inserting records into table in three ways shown in
the following.
SQL> INSERT INTO STUDENTS
VALUES(1,'ROHI','CHEMBUR',9987918773,'29-
AUG-90',87);
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO
STUDENTS(S_ROLL,S_NAME,DOB,S_MARKS)
VALUES(2,'JUHI','14-APR-91',78);
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO STUDENTS VALUES
2(&S_ROLL,'&S_NAME','&S_ADDRESS',&S_PHONE
,'&DATE',&S_MARKS);

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While inserting records into tables, null values are
allowed(not for ‘not null’ attributes)but attribute sequence is
required for valid insertion. If attribute is in the middle of the
sequence of attributes then it can left blank but if attribute is
the last one, then null value must be entered as shown in the
below code.
SQL> INSERT INTO COURSE VALUES
(4,'INFT',);
INSERT INTO COURSE VALUES (4,'INFT',)*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00936: missing expression
SQL> INSERT INTO COURSE VALUES (4,'INFT',
NULL)
1 row created.
C. Integrity Constraints:
The DDL includes commands for specifying integrity
constraints that the data stored in the database must satisfy.
Updates that violate integrity constraints are disallowed.
Primary key must be one to any table and it can be used while
creating table or can add to existing table also as shown in the
following code.
SQL> ALTER TABLE STUDENTS ADD CONSTRAINT
2 PK_P PRIMARY KEY (S_ROLL);
After adding primary key by altering table that can be seen in
table description as not null.
SQL> DESC STUDENTS;
Name Null? Type
------------------ ---------- ------
--
S_ROLL NOT NULL NUMBER
(2)
S_NAME
VARCHAR2 (20)
S_ADDRESS
VARCHAR2 (20)
S_PHONE NUMBER
(10)
DOB DATE
S_MARKS NUMBER
(38)
Table altered.
But whenever other integrity like unique key, check
constraints are added by using alter table, reflection can’t be
seen in table structure as shown in the following.
SQL> ALTER TABLE STUDENTS
2 ADD CONSTRAINT
3 UK_S UNIQUE(S_PHONE);
Table altered.
2 ADD CONSTRAINT
3 CHK_S CHECK(S_MARKS >=60);
Table altered.
SQL> DESC STUDENTS;
Name Null? Type
-------------- ---------- --------
S_ROLL NOT NULL NUMBER(2)
S_NAME
VARCHAR2(20)
S_ADDRESS
VARCHAR2(20)
S_PHONE NUMBER(10)
DOB DATE
S_MARKS NUMBER(38)
If same alter command is used for adding any not null
constraint, it can’t be added simply using alter. It possible to
add not null constraint by using modify command with alter
table, which is not similar to other constraints.
2 ADD CONSTRAINT
3* NN DOB NOTNULL;
NN DOB NOTNULL
*
ERROR at line 3:
ORA-01430: column being added already exists in table
SQL> ALTER TABLE STUDENTS MODIFY DOB DATE
NOT NULL;
Table altered.
SQL> DESC STUDENTS;
Name Null? Type
----------------- -------- -------
----
S_ROLL NOT NULL
NUMBER(2)
S_NAME
VARCHAR2(20)
S_ADDRESS
VARCHAR2(20)
S_PHONE
NUMBER(10)
DOB NOT NULL DATE
S_MARKS
NUMBER(38)
If someone wants to know the user given constraints for
particular table, following syntax can be used but as it was
written in oracle user guide , sqlplus is not a case sensitive but
here it requires only capital letters in the table name. This
observation had shown in the following code.
SQL> SELECT CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM
USER_CONSTRAINTS WHERE
TABLE_NAME='STUDENTS';
CONSTRAINT_NAME
------------------------------
PK_P
UK_S
CHK_S

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SYS_C005545
SQL>SELECT CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM
USER_CONSTRAINTS WHERE
TABLE_NAME='students';
no rows selected
D. Aggregate functions:
Aggregate functions are functions that take a collection (a
set or multiset) of values as input and return a single value[2].
Oracle/SQL offers five built-in aggregate functions: avg, min,
max, sum, count. With these aggregate functions used on
numeric attributes, even name of the attributes is changed in
the SELECT query by using key word AS. but with out using
that also attribute is renamed as shown in the following code.
SQL> SELECT COUNT(S_MARKS) AS TOAL_MARKS
FROM STUDENTS;
TOAL_MARKS
----------
7
SQL> SELECT COUNT(S_MARKS) TOAL_MARKS
FROM STUDENTS;
TOAL_MARKS
----------
7
SQL>SELECT COUNT(S_MARKS) AS
'TOAL_MARKS' FROM STUDENTS;
SELECT COUNT(S_MARKS) AS 'TOAL_MARKS'
FROM STUDENTS
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
SQL>SELECT COUNT(S_MARKS) AS
“TOAL_MARKS” FROM STUDENTS;
TOAL_MARKS
----------
7
E. Join Operations:
Oracle/SQL provides other forms of the join operation,
including the ability to specify an explicit join predicate, and
the ability to include in the result tuples that are excluded by
natural join[5]. Joins are mainly two types, inner joins and
outer joins. Inner join is obtained in two ways as shown in the
following Fig.
Figure 2:Inner Join operation Output
IV. Conclusion
Handy Annotations presented in this paper will be helpful to
students and faculties in education sectors and others who
wants to use Oracle 10g data base as back end in their
applications.
References
1. Raghu Ramakrishna and Johannes Gehrka: Database Management
Systems.5th
Edition.
2. Abraham Silberschatz, Bell Laboratories, Henry F. Korth, Bell
Laboratories. Sudarshan Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay:
Database System Concepts.6th
Edition.
3. www.wikiepedia.com/Oracle10g.
4. James T.Perry,Joseph G.Lateer:Understanding Oracle.
5. Ivan Bayroll:SQ,PL/SQL the programming Language of
ORACLE,3rd
Edition.
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