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CHAPTER 2 SQL AND PL/SQL
Exercises
it conforms to the diagram in Figure 2-3. Answer the following questions:
lists have been used? (Eight)
interspersed comments)
Oracle Database 11g SQL Language Reference from
. Review the railroad diagram for the statement
and all the subdiagrams.
clause instead of the operator and without using subquery factoring.
Ask a database administrator in your organization for help testing these statements
against a real database by using SQL*Plus or SQL Developer. Note that
SQL*Plus does not automatically handle blank lines—you have to use the
command to tell it to do so.
Further Reading
Oracle Corporation. Oracle 11g PL/SQL User’s Guide and Reference. Oracle Corporation,
2007. Searchable or downloadable free of charge at
.
Oracle Corporation. Oracle Database 11g Application Developer’s Guide—Fundamentals.
Oracle Corporation, 2007. This book is required reading for everybody who wants
to create software application programs that interact with an Oracle database. It is
searchable or downloadable free of charge at
.
Oracle Corporation. Oracle Database 11g SQL Language Reference. Oracle Corporation,
2007. An exhaustive reference to every aspect of SQL—it has nearly 2,000 pages.
Searchable or downloadable free of charge at
.