One-stop resource for everything related to
Oracle Database

TopNQuery

Understanding Top-N Queries in Oracle Database

A Top-N query is used to retrieve the top or bottom N rows from an ordered set. Combining two Top-N…

TopNQuery

Understanding Top-N Queries in Oracle Database

A Top-N query is used to retrieve the top or bottom N rows from an ordered set. Combining two Top-N…

TopNQuery

Understanding Different SQL*Loader Flavor In Oracle Database.

INSERT APPEND BEGINDATA You can also specify the data directly inside the control file itself using BEGINDATA keyword. i.e Anything…

TopNQuery

Understanding DIRECT PATH INSERT & CONVENTIONAL PATH INSERT Using SQL*Loader In Oracle Database

SQL*Loader allows you to load data from an external file into a table in the database. It can parse many…

TopNQuery

Understanding Oracle Hints For PARALLEL Operations

The Oracle PARALLEL hint instructs the optimizer to use a specified number of concurrent servers (degree of parallelism, or DOP)…

TopNQuery

Understanding Oracle Access Methods

Oracle employs several methods, known as access paths, to retrieve data for a SQL statement. Optimizer hints are comments within…

TopNQuery

Understanding ORACLE HINTS For JOIN OPERATIONS In Oracle Database

Oracle SQL hints are used to manually control the execution plan of a query, overriding the optimizer’s default decisions regarding…

TopNQuery

Understanding PACKAGED CURSOR In Oracle Database

One particularly interesting type of package data is the explicit cursor.I can declare a cursor in a package, in either…

TopNQuery

Understanding WHERE CURRENT OF Clause In Oracle Database

If you plan on updating or deleting records that have been referenced by a SELECT FOR UPDATE statement, you can…

TopNQuery

Understanding PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT In Oracle Database

EXCEPTION_INIT is a compile-time command or pragma used to associate a exception name with an internal error code.EXCEPTION_INIT instructs the…

TopNQuery

Understanding INVISIBLE Column In Oracle Database

As of Oracle 12.1, you can now define invisible columns in relational tables. An invisible column is a user-defined hidden…