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Richard Walsh Earp Sikha Saha Bagui Wordware Publishing, Inc... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataEarp, Richard, 1940-Advanced SQL functions in Oracle 10g / by Richard W

Richard Walsh Earp Sikha Saha Bagui

Wordware Publishing, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Earp, Richard,

1940-Advanced SQL functions in Oracle 10g / by Richard Walsh Earp

and Sikha Saha Bagui.

p cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-59822-021-6

ISBN-10: 1-59822-021-7 (pbk.)

1 SQL (Computer program language) 2 Oracle (Computer file).

I Bagui, Sikha, 1964- II Title.

QA76.73.S67E26 2006

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Index

selecting from, 286

updating, 285-286

using VALUE function with, 291-292

THE function, using with VARRAY,

306-309

titles, adding to report, 49-51

TO_CHAR function, 27-28, 41

using, 41-43

TO_DATE function, 29

TRANSLATE function, 367-368

trigonometry functions, 14-16

TRIM function, 24-25, 368

using, 25-27

TRUNC function, 7

using, 8-10

TTITLE command, 49-50

using, 50-51

type, defining in VARRAY, 299-300

TYPE, 293

TYPE BODY, 293-294

U

UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING clause,

134-135

UNTIL clause, 218-221

UPDATE clause, using, 278-279

UPDATE option, with FOR loop, 210-211

UPPER function, 368-369

UPSERT option, with FOR loop, 209-210

user-defined functions,

creating for column objects, 292-297

creating for VARRAY, 320-324

V

VALUE function,

using, 291-292

using with VARRAY, 306-307

values,

inserting into table, 275

inserting into TCRO, 284-285

VAR_POP function, 390

VAR_SAMP function, 390

variable array, see VARRAY

VARIANCE function, 391 VARRAY, 297-299 creating user-defined functions for, 320-324

loading table that contains, 301-302 manipulating, 302-303

self-join, 305-306 using CAST function with, 308-311 using COLUMN_VALUE function with, 307-309

using COUNT function with, 316-318 using EXISTS function with, 312-316 using LAST function with, 312-316 using MULTISET function with, 309-311

using TABLE function with, 303-304 using THE function with, 306-309 using VALUE function with, 306-307 virtual table, using as workaround, 77-78 VSIZE function, 369

W

WHERE clause, 63-64, 65 and SELECT statement, 67 using, 278

wildcard operator, 232 windowing, logical, 137-143 windowing subclause, 120

X

XML, 338 displaying in a browser, 342-344 generating from SQL tables, 344-347 problems with using attributes in, 340-341

transforming into SQL, 347-355 XML elements, 339-340

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