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403. How to make an "ISNUMBER" function

401. Seeing duplicated index columns

398. How To Grant Privileges to All Users

396. AUTOEXTEND Syntax For Datafiles

394. Comparing index columns between two databases

393. Generate CREATE TABLESPACE commands

391. Select the "last" N records?

388. When was an Object Created?

382. Rebuilding an Index

380. Substituting _ and % in SQL

375. Syntax to Make Foreign Key

371. How Many Days Since 1900?

368. "NOT IN" vs. "NOT EXISTS"

364. What is the DUAL Table?

363. Is It Possible to Describe a Synonym?

362. SQL*Plus Report Gets Distorted After Several Pages

357. Comparing Data on Two Instances

355. LTRIM and RTRIM to see data between -'s

343. Two Conditions with Decode

341. Dumping a Schema

331. What users and SQL are locking rows/tables?

329. SQL help

319. select the last n records from a table

317. SQL: Truncate and referential integrity

316. Using an inner SELECT statement with UPDATE

315. Multiple Triggers on one table? Also, Temporary Tables?

309. NOT EXISTS

307. Changing column names

306. Restricting users to only their own records in a table

298. Two EXPLAIN PLAN questions

297. Using DECODE for RANGES of values

296. How to allow EVERY user access to a table

295. Selecting only EVEN or ODD records

292. How to see free space within existing extents?

283. Is DROP TABLE recorded in the redo logs?

281. UPDATE with multiple tables

277. Beginner: joining five tables

274. Getting data from the prior month

271. Dynamically selecting columns in SQL

269. Generating CREATE INDEX commands through Export/Import

263. Using the TRUNCATE Command

262. Finding Numerals Within a String Field

261. Defining Default Column Value

260. When was a table last had a record deleted/updated/inserted

254. I can't describe a table that I know exists!

252. How do you reset a sequence?

246. Returning the row with the Max total

244. Copying data among tables

240. Searching for the asterisk (*) in a string

238. The difference between a row and ROWID

236. BECOME USER privilege; rename a column; row chaining/migration

233. Updating rows which may return multiple values

232. Triggers on data dictionary; SGA swapping

229. Getting ROWID information

220. Limiting rows to the top X records meeting a condition

219. Deleting duplicate rows

216. When do triggers fire? Can you export from one table and import into another?

197. Picking the Least-Used Rollback Segment for SET TRANSACTION

195. Database Character Sorting

192. Breaking up tables with LONG columns

189. How do you see table names in SQL*Plus?

186. How do you see the trigger body in the data dictionary?

182. Which SQL statements are being executed?

174. 1) Does unique constraint exist? 2) How do you use HOST?

159. Removing Columns from a Table

158. SQL Quiz

155. Selecting constraints from the dictionary

153. How to rebuild indexes quickly

151. Finding the total rows in the database

148. Determining max concurrent users

142. Is it possible to pass args. to a sql script?

132. New century - URGENT

131. DESC tables

130. How do I put a & in a varchar2?

127. Analyze Question

119. Writing Ampersands to fields

118. Simple SQL Question from a Beginner

117. Index REBUILD vs DROP/CREATE

115. DELETE COMMAND

114. Finding duplicate rows in a table

112. How to set default initial extent when creating new table

102. How to display date and time from 'Select Sysdate...'

96. how to solve it?

95. select and update by row number

93. [Q] how to find how many rows in each table in the database?

83. Is there a solution for varchar2 !

78. SQL*Plus / Windows NT / host commands

73. ROWID Arithmetic

63. Help on how to get decode the resource id

57. limiting rows returned ?

55. Case insensitive

48. Fixed format output

44. SQL Statement

43. SQL*Plus spooling problem

37. ANALYZE %

31. Capturing SQL commands

29. SQL question: Views

15. Question: How to handle duplicate table names?

14. Using alter table add constraint syntax?

13. SQL Query

7. Need help with simple SQL syntax

3. How to use " in Oracle Data

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