Oracle SQL*Plus has a very useful subparameter to the column parameter called NEW_VALUE. The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the ...

Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a size limit of 2,000 characters, you ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...