Complex Queries in SQL ( Oracle )

These questions are the most frequently asked in interviews.

1. To fetch ALTERNATE records from a table. (EVEN NUMBERED)
select * from emp where rowid in (select decode(mod(rownum,2),0,rowid, null)
from emp);
2. To select ALTERNATE records from a table. (ODD NUMBERED)
select * from emp where rowid in (select decode(mod(rownum,2),0,null ,rowid)
from emp);
3. Find the 3rd MAX salary in the emp table.
select distinct sal from emp e1 where 3 = (select count(distinct sal) from emp
e2 where e1.sal <= e2.sal);
4. Find the 3rd MIN salary in the emp table.
select distinct sal from emp e1 where 3 = (select count(distinct sal) from emp
e2where e1.sal >= e2.sal);
5. Select FIRST n records from a table.
select * from emp where rownum <= &n;
6. Select LAST n records from a table
select * from emp minus select * from emp where rownum <= (select count(*)
- &n from emp);
7. List dept no., Dept name for all the departments in which there are no
employees in the department.
select * from dept where deptno not in (select deptno from emp);
alternate solution: select * from dept a where not exists (select * from emp b
where a.deptno = b.deptno);
altertnate solution: select empno,ename,b.deptno,dname from emp a, dept b
where a.deptno(+) = b.deptno and empno is null;
8. How to get 3 Max salaries ?
select distinct sal from emp a where 3 >= (select count(distinct sal) from emp
b where a.sal <= b.sal) order by a.sal desc;
9. How to get 3 Min salaries ?
select distinct sal from emp a where 3 >= (select count(distinct sal) from emp
b where a.sal >= b.sal);
10. How to get nth max salaries ?
select distinct hiredate from emp a where &n = (select count(distinct sal) from
emp b where a.sal >= b.sal);
11. Select DISTINCT RECORDS from emp table.
select * from emp a where rowid = (select max(rowid) from emp b where
a.empno=b.empno);
12. How to delete duplicate rows in a table?
delete from emp a where rowid != (select max(rowid) from emp b where
a.empno=b.empno);
13. Count of number of employees in department wise.
select count(EMPNO), b.deptno, dname from emp a, dept b where
a.deptno(+)=b.deptno group by b.deptno,dname;
14. Suppose there is annual salary information provided by emp table. How
to fetch monthly salary of each and every employee?
select ename,sal/12 as monthlysal from emp;
15. Select all record from emp table where deptno =10 or 40.
select * from emp where deptno=30 or deptno=10;
16. Select all record from emp table where deptno=30 and sal>1500.
select * from emp where deptno=30 and sal>1500;
17. Select all record from emp where job not in SALESMAN or CLERK.
select * from emp where job not in ('SALESMAN','CLERK');
18. Select all record from emp where ename in
'BLAKE','SCOTT','KING'and'FORD'.
select * from emp where ename in('JONES','BLAKE','SCOTT','KING','FORD');
19. Select all records where ename starts with ‘S’ and its lenth is 6 char.
select * from emp where ename like'S____';
20. Select all records where ename may be any no of character but it
should end with ‘R’.
select * from emp where ename like'%R';
21. Count MGR and their salary in emp table.
select count(MGR),count(sal) from emp;
22. In emp table add comm+sal as total sal .
select ename,(sal+nvl(comm,0)) as totalsal from emp;
23. Select any salary <3000 from emp table.
select * from emp where sal> any(select sal from emp where sal<3000);
24. Select all salary <3000 from emp table.
select * from emp where sal> all(select sal from emp where sal<3000);
25. Select all the employee group by deptno and sal in descending order.
select ename,deptno,sal from emp order by deptno,sal desc;
26. How can I create an empty table emp1 with same structure as emp?
Create table emp1 as select * from emp where 1=2;
27. How to retrive record where sal between 1000 to 2000?
Select * from emp where sal>=1000 And sal<2000
28. Select all records where dept no of both emp and dept table matches.
select * from emp where exists(select * from dept where
emp.deptno=dept.deptno)
29. If there are two tables emp1 and emp2, and both have common record.
How can I fetch all the recods but common records only once?
(Select * from emp) Union (Select * from emp1)
30. How to fetch only common records from two tables emp and emp1?
(Select * from emp) Intersect (Select * from emp1)
31. How can I retrive all records of emp1 those should not present in
emp2?
(Select * from emp) Minus (Select * from emp1)
32. Count the totalsa deptno wise where more than 2 employees exist.
SELECT deptno, sum(sal) As totalsal
FROM emp
GROUP BY deptno
HAVING COUNT(empno) > 2
1.Query to find Second Highest Salary of Employee?(click for explaination)
Answer:
Select distinct Salary from Employee e1 where 2=Select count(distinct Salary)
from Employee e2 where e1.salary<=e2.salary;

2.Query to find duplicate rows in table?(click here for explaination )

Answer :
Select * from Employee a where rowid <>( select max(rowid) from Employee b
where a.Employee_num=b.Employee_num);
3.How to fetch monthly Salary of Employee if annual salary is given?(click here for
Explaination)
Answer:
Select Employee_name,Salary/12 as ‘Monthly Salary’ from employee;
Click here to get information on ROW_ID
4.What is the Query to fetch first record from Employee table? (90% asked Complex SQL
Queries Examples)
Answer:
Select * from Employee where Rownum =1;

5.What is the Query to fetch last record from the table?

Select * from Employee where Rowid= select max(Rowid) from Employee;
6.What is Query to display first 5 Records from Employee table?(90% asked Complex SQL
Queries Examples)
Answer:
Select * from Employee where Rownum <= 5;
6.What is Query to display last 5 Records from Employee table?(90% asked Complex SQL
Queries Examples)
Answer:
Select * from Employee e where rownum <=5
union
select * from (Select * from Employee e order by rowid desc) where rownum <=5;

7.What is Query to display Nth Record from Employee table?

Answer :
select * from ( select a.*, rownum rnum from ( YOUR_QUERY_GOES_HERE —
including the order by ) a where rownum <= N_ROWS ) where rnum >= N_ROWS
8.How to get 3 Highest salaries records from Employee table?
Answer:
select distinct salary from employee a where 3 >= (select count(distinct salary) from
employee b where a.salary <= b.salary) order by a.salary desc;
Alternative Solution: Suggested by Ankit Srivastava
select min(salary)from(select distinct salary from emp order by salary desc)where
rownum<=3;
9.How to Display Odd rows in Employee table?(90% asked Complex SQL Queries
Examples)
Answer:
Select * from(Select rownum as rno,E.* from Employee E) where Mod(rno,2)=1;
10.How to Display Even rows in Employee table?
Answer:
Select * from(Select rownum as rno,E.* from Employee) where Mod(rno,2)=0;
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11.How to fetch 3rd highest salary using Rank Function?
Answer:
select * from (Select Dense_Rank() over ( order by salary desc) as Rnk,E.* from
Employee E) where Rnk=3;
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12.How Can i create table with same structure of Employee table?(90% asked Complex
SQL Queries Examples)
Answer:
Create table Employee_1 as Select * from Employee where 1=2;
13.Display first 50% records from Employee table?
Answer:
select rownum, e.* from emp e where rownum<=(select count(*)/2 from emp);
14.Display last 50% records from Employee table?
Answer:
Select rownum,E.* from Employee E
minus
Select rownum,E.* from Employee E where rownum<=(Select count(*)/2) from
Employee);
15.How Can i create table with same structure with data of Employee table?
Answer:
Create table Employee1 as select * from Employee;
16.How do i fetch only common records between 2 tables.
Answer:
Select * from Employee;
Intersect
Select * from Employee1;
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17.Find Query to get information of Employee where Employee is not assigned to the
department
Answer:
Select * from Employee where Dept_no Not in(Select Department_no from Department);
18.How to get distinct records from the table without using distinct keyword.
Answer:
select * from Employee a where rowid = (select max(rowid) from Employee b where
a.Employee_no=b.Employee_no);
19.Select all records from Employee table whose name is ‘Amit’ and ‘Pradnya’
Answer:
Select * from Employee where Name in(‘Amit’,’Pradnya’);
20.Select all records from Employee table where name not in ‘Amit’ and ‘Pradnya’
Answer:
select * from Employee where name Not in (‘Amit’,’Pradnya’);
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21.how to write sql query for the below scenario
I/p:ORACLE
O/p:
O
R
A
C
L
E
i.e, splitting into multiple columns a string using sql.
Answer:
Select Substr(‘ORACLE’,Level,1) From Dual
Connect By Level<= Length(‘ORACLE’);
22.How to fetch all the records from Employee whose joining year is 2017?
Answer:
Oracle:
select * from Employee where To_char(Joining_date,’YYYY’)=’2017′;
MS SQL:
select * from Employee where substr(convert(varchar,Joining_date,103),7,4)=’2017′;
23.What is SQL Query to find maximum salary of each department?
Answer:
Select Dept_id,max(salary) from Employee group by Dept_id;
24.How Do you find all Employees with its managers?(Consider there is manager id also in
Employee table)
Answer:
Select e.employee_name,m.employee name from Employee e,Employee m where
e.Employee_id=m.Manager_id;
25.Display the name of employees who have joined in 2016 and salary is greater than
10000?
Answer:
Select name from Employee where Hire_Date like ‘2016%’ and salary>10000;
26.How to display following using query?
*
**
***
Answer:
We cannot use dual table to display output given above. To display output use any table.
I am using Student table.
SELECT lpad (‘*’, ROWNUM,’*’) FROM Student WHERE ROWNUM <4;
27.How to add the email validation using only one query?
Answer :
User needs to use REGEXP_LIKE function for email validation.
SELECT
Email
FROM
Employee
where NOT REGEXP_LIKE(Email, ‘[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}’, ‘i’);
28.How to display 1 to 100 Numbers with query?
Answer:
Select level from dual connect by level <=100;
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hierarchical queries
29.How to remove duplicate rows from table?(100% asked in Complex SQL Queries for
Interviews)
Answer:
First Step: Selecting Duplicate rows from table
Tip: Use concept of max (rowid) of table. Click here to get concept of rowid.
Select rollno FROM Student WHERE ROWID <>
(Select max (rowid) from Student b where rollno=b.rollno);
Step 2: Delete duplicate rows
Delete FROM Student WHERE ROWID <>
(Select max (rowid) from Student b where rollno=b.rollno);
30.How to find count of duplicate rows? (95% asked in SQL queries for Interviews )
Answer:
Select rollno, count (rollno) from Student
Group by rollno
Having count (rollno)>1
Order by count (rollno) desc;
31.How to Find the Joining date of Employee in YYYY-DAY-Date format.
Select FIRST_NAME, to_char(joining_date,’YYYY’) JoinYear ,
to_char(joining_date,’Mon’), to_char(joining_date,’dd’) from EMPLOYEES;
Date / Time related queries
1. Get the first day of the month
Quickly returns the first day of current month. Instead of current month
you want to find first day of month where a date falls, replace
SYSDATE with any date column/value.
SELECT TRUNC (SYSDATE, 'MONTH') "First day of current month"
FROM DUAL;

2. Get the last day of the month

This query is similar to above but returns last day of current month. One
thing worth noting is that it automatically takes care of leap year. So if
you have 29 days in Feb, it will return 29/2. Also similar to above query
replace SYSDATE with any other date column/value to find last day of
that particular month.
SELECT TRUNC (LAST_DAY (SYSDATE)) "Last day of current month"
FROM DUAL;
3. Get the first day of the Year
First day of year is always 1-Jan. This query can be use in stored
procedure where you quickly want first day of year for some calculation.
SELECT TRUNC (SYSDATE, 'YEAR') "Year First Day" FROM DUAL;
4. Get the last day of the year
Similar to above query. Instead of first day this query returns last day of
current year.
SELECT ADD_MONTHS (TRUNC (SYSDATE, 'YEAR'), 12) - 1 "Year Last Day" FROM
DUAL
5. Get number of days in current month
Now this is useful. This query returns number of days in current month.
You can change SYSDATE with any date/value to know number of
days in that month.
SELECT CAST (TO_CHAR (LAST_DAY (SYSDATE), 'dd') AS INT) number_of_days
FROM DUAL;
6. Get number of days left in current month
Below query calculates number of days left in current month.
SELECT SYSDATE,
LAST_DAY (SYSDATE) "Last",
LAST_DAY (SYSDATE) - SYSDATE "Days left"
FROM DUAL;
7. Get number of days between two dates
Use this query to get difference between two dates in number of days.
SELECT ROUND ( (MONTHS_BETWEEN ('01-Feb-2014', '01-Mar-2012') * 30), 0)
num_of_days
FROM DUAL;

OR

SELECT TRUNC(sysdate) - TRUNC(e.hire_date) FROM employees;

 Use second query if you need to find number of days since some
specific date. In this example number of days since any employee is
hired.
8. Display each months start and end date upto last month of
the year
This clever query displays start date and end date of each month in
current year. You might want to use this for certain types of
calculations.
SELECT ADD_MONTHS (TRUNC (SYSDATE, 'MONTH'), i) start_date,
TRUNC (LAST_DAY (ADD_MONTHS (SYSDATE, i))) end_date
FROM XMLTABLE (
'for $i in 0 to xs:int(D) return $i'
PASSING XMLELEMENT (
d,
FLOOR (
MONTHS_BETWEEN (
ADD_MONTHS (TRUNC (SYSDATE, 'YEAR') - 1, 12),
SYSDATE)))
COLUMNS i INTEGER PATH '.');
9. Get number of seconds passed since today (since 00:00 hr)
SELECT (SYSDATE - TRUNC (SYSDATE)) * 24 * 60 * 60 num_of_sec_since_morning
FROM DUAL;
10. Get number of seconds left today (till 23:59:59 hr)
SELECT (TRUNC (SYSDATE+1) - SYSDATE) * 24 * 60 * 60 num_of_sec_left
FROM DUAL;

Data dictionary queries

11. Check if a table exists in the current database schema
A simple query that can be used to check if a table exists before you
create it. This way you can make your create table script rerunnable.
Just replace table_name with actual table you want to check. This
query will check if table exists for current user (from where the query is
executed).
SELECT table_name
FROM user_tables
WHERE table_name = 'TABLE_NAME';
12. Check if a column exists in a table
Simple query to check if a particular column exists in table. Useful when
you tries to add new column in table using ALTER TABLE statement,
you might wanna check if column already exists before adding one.
SELECT column_name AS FOUND
FROM user_tab_cols
WHERE table_name = 'TABLE_NAME' AND column_name = 'COLUMN_NAME';
13. Showing the table structure
This query gives you the DDL statement for any table. Notice we have
pass ‘TABLE’ as first parameter. This query can be generalized to get
DDL statement of any database object. For example to get DDL for a
 view just replace first argument with ‘VIEW’ and second with your view
name and so.
SELECT DBMS_METADATA.get_ddl ('TABLE', 'TABLE_NAME', 'USER_NAME') FROM
DUAL;
14. Getting current schema
Yet another query to get current schema name.
SELECT SYS_CONTEXT ('userenv', 'current_schema') FROM DUAL;
15. Changing current schema
Yet another query to change the current schema. Useful when your
script is expected to run under certain user but is actually executed by
other user. It is always safe to set the current user to what your script
expects.
ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA = new_schema;

Database administration queries

16. Database version information
Returns the Oracle database version.
SELECT * FROM v$version;
17. Database default information
Some system default information.
SELECT username,
profile,
default_tablespace,
temporary_tablespace
FROM dba_users;
18. Database Character Set information
Display the character set information of database.
SELECT * FROM nls_database_parameters;
19. Get Oracle version
SELECT VALUE
FROM v$system_parameter
WHERE name = 'compatible';
20. Store data case sensitive but to index it case insensitive
Now this ones tricky. Sometime you might querying database on some
value independent of case. In your query you might do UPPER(..) =
UPPER(..) on both sides to make it case insensitive. Now in such
cases, you might want to make your index case insensitive so that they
don’t occupy more space. Feel free to experiment with this one.
CREATE TABLE tab (col1 VARCHAR2 (10));

CREATE INDEX idx1

ON tab (UPPER (col1));

ANALYZE TABLE a COMPUTE STATISTICS;

21. Resizing Tablespace without adding datafile
Yet another DDL query to resize table space.
 ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '/work/oradata/STARTST/STAR02D.dbf' resize 2000M;
22. Checking autoextend on/off for Tablespaces
Query to check if autoextend is on or off for a given tablespace.
SELECT SUBSTR (file_name, 1, 50), AUTOEXTENSIBLE FROM dba_data_files;

(OR)

SELECT tablespace_name, AUTOEXTENSIBLE FROM dba_data_files;

23. Adding datafile to a tablespace
Query to add datafile in a tablespace.
ALTER TABLESPACE data01 ADD DATAFILE '/work/oradata/STARTST/data01.dbf'
SIZE 1000M AUTOEXTEND OFF;
24. Increasing datafile size
Yet another query to increase the datafile size of a given datafile.
ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '/u01/app/Test_data_01.dbf' RESIZE 2G;
25. Find the Actual size of a Database
Gives the actual database size in GB.
SELECT SUM (bytes) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 AS GB FROM dba_data_files;
26. Find the size occupied by Data in a Database or Database
usage details
Gives the size occupied by data in this database.
SELECT SUM (bytes) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 AS GB FROM dba_segments;
27. Find the size of the SCHEMA/USER
Give the size of user in MBs.
SELECT SUM (bytes / 1024 / 1024) "size"
FROM dba_segments
WHERE owner = '&owner';
28. Last SQL fired by the User on Database
This query will display last SQL query fired by each user in this
database. Notice how this query display last SQL per each session.
SELECT S.USERNAME || '(' || s.sid || ')-' || s.osuser UNAME,
s.program || '-' || s.terminal || '(' || s.machine || ')' PROG,
s.sid || '/' || s.serial# sid,
s.status "Status",
p.spid,
sql_text sqltext
FROM v$sqltext_with_newlines t, V$SESSION s, v$process p
WHERE t.address = s.sql_address
AND p.addr = s.paddr(+)
AND t.hash_value = s.sql_hash_value
ORDER BY s.sid, t.piece;

Performance related queries

29. CPU usage of the USER
Displays CPU usage for each User. Useful to understand database
load by user.
SELECT ss.username, se.SID, VALUE / 100 cpu_usage_seconds
 FROM v$session ss, v$sesstat se, v$statname sn
WHERE se.STATISTIC# = sn.STATISTIC#
AND NAME LIKE '%CPU used by this session%'
AND se.SID = ss.SID
AND ss.status = 'ACTIVE'
AND ss.username IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY VALUE DESC;
30. Long Query progress in database
Show the progress of long running queries.
SELECT a.sid,
a.serial#,
b.username,
opname OPERATION,
target OBJECT,
TRUNC (elapsed_seconds, 5) "ET (s)",
TO_CHAR (start_time, 'HH24:MI:SS') start_time,
ROUND ( (sofar / totalwork) * 100, 2) "COMPLETE (%)"
FROM v$session_longops a, v$session b
WHERE a.sid = b.sid
AND b.username NOT IN ('SYS', 'SYSTEM')
AND totalwork > 0
ORDER BY elapsed_seconds;
31. Get current session id, process id, client process id?
This is for those who wants to do some voodoo magic using process
ids and session ids.
SELECT b.sid,
b.serial#,
a.spid processid,
b.process clientpid
FROM v$process a, v$session b
WHERE a.addr = b.paddr AND b.audsid = USERENV ('sessionid');
 V$SESSION.SID AND V$SESSION.SERIAL# is database process
id
 V$PROCESS.SPID is shadow process id on this database server
 V$SESSION.PROCESS is client PROCESS ID, ON windows it IS :
separated THE FIRST # IS THE PROCESS ID ON THE client AND
2nd one IS THE THREAD id.
32. Last SQL Fired from particular Schema or Table:
SELECT CREATED, TIMESTAMP, last_ddl_time
FROM all_objects
WHERE OWNER = 'MYSCHEMA'
AND OBJECT_TYPE = 'TABLE'
AND OBJECT_NAME = 'EMPLOYEE_TABLE';
33. Find Top 10 SQL by reads per execution
SELECT *
FROM ( SELECT ROWNUM,
SUBSTR (a.sql_text, 1, 200) sql_text,
TRUNC (
a.disk_reads / DECODE (a.executions, 0, 1, a.executions))
reads_per_execution,
a.buffer_gets,
a.disk_reads,
a.executions,
 a.sorts,
a.address
FROM v$sqlarea a
ORDER BY 3 DESC)
WHERE ROWNUM < 10;
34. Oracle SQL query over the view that shows actual Oracle
connections.
SELECT osuser,
username,
machine,
program
FROM v$session
ORDER BY osuser;
35. Oracle SQL query that show the opened connections group by
the program that opens the connection.
SELECT program application, COUNT (program) Numero_Sesiones
FROM v$session
GROUP BY program
ORDER BY Numero_Sesiones DESC;
36. Oracle SQL query that shows Oracle users connected and the
sessions number for user
SELECT username Usuario_Oracle, COUNT (username) Numero_Sesiones
FROM v$session
GROUP BY username
ORDER BY Numero_Sesiones DESC;
37. Get number of objects per owner
SELECT owner, COUNT (owner) number_of_objects
FROM dba_objects
GROUP BY owner
ORDER BY number_of_objects DESC;

Utility / Math related queries

38. Convert number to words
More info: Converting number into words in Oracle
SELECT TO_CHAR (TO_DATE (1526, 'j'), 'jsp') FROM DUAL;
Output:
one thousand five hundred twenty-six
39. Find string in package source code
Below query will search for string ‘FOO_SOMETHING’ in all package source.
This query comes handy when you want to find a particular procedure or
function call from all the source code.
--search a string foo_something in package source code
SELECT *
FROM dba_source
WHERE UPPER (text) LIKE '%FOO_SOMETHING%'
AND owner = 'USER_NAME';
40. Convert Comma Separated Values into Table
The query can come quite handy when you have comma separated data
string that you need to convert into table so that you can use other SQL
queries like IN or NOT IN. Here we are converting ‘AA,BB,CC,DD,EE,FF’
string to table containing AA, BB, CC etc. as each row. Once you have this
table you can join it with other table to quickly do some useful stuffs.
 WITH csv
AS (SELECT 'AA,BB,CC,DD,EE,FF'
AS csvdata
FROM DUAL)
SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR (csv.csvdata, '[^,]+', 1, LEVEL) pivot_char
FROM DUAL, csv
CONNECT BY REGEXP_SUBSTR (csv.csvdata,'[^,]+', 1, LEVEL) IS NOT NULL;
41. Find the last record from a table
This ones straight forward. Use this when your table does not have primary
key or you cannot be sure if record having max primary key is the latest one.
SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE ROWID IN (SELECT MAX (ROWID) FROM employees);

(OR)

SELECT * FROM employees

MINUS
SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE ROWNUM < (SELECT COUNT (*) FROM employees);
42. Row Data Multiplication in Oracle
This query use some tricky math functions to multiply values from each row.
Read below article for more details.
More info: Row Data Multiplication In Oracle
WITH tbl
AS (SELECT -2 num FROM DUAL
UNION
SELECT -3 num FROM DUAL
UNION
SELECT -4 num FROM DUAL),
sign_val
AS (SELECT CASE MOD (COUNT (*), 2) WHEN 0 THEN 1 ELSE -1 END val
FROM tbl
WHERE num < 0)
SELECT EXP (SUM (LN (ABS (num)))) * val
FROM tbl, sign_val
GROUP BY val;
43. Generating Random Data In Oracle
You might want to generate some random data to quickly insert in table for
testing. Below query help you do that. Read this article for more details.
More info: Random Data in Oracle
SELECT LEVEL empl_id,
MOD (ROWNUM, 50000) dept_id,
TRUNC (DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE (1000, 500000), 2) salary,
DECODE (ROUND (DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE (1, 2)), 1, 'M', 2, 'F') gender,
TO_DATE (
ROUND (DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE (1, 28))
|| '-'
|| ROUND (DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE (1, 12))
|| '-'
|| ROUND (DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE (1900, 2010)),
'DD-MM-YYYY')
dob,
DBMS_RANDOM.STRING ('x', DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE (20, 50)) address
FROM DUAL
CONNECT BY LEVEL < 10000;
44. Random number generator in Oracle
Plain old random number generator in Oracle. This ones generate a random
number between 0 and 100. Change the multiplier to number that you want to
set limit for.
--generate random number between 0 and 100
SELECT ROUND (DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE () * 100) + 1 AS random_num FROM DUAL;
45. Check if table contains any data
This one can be written in multiple ways. You can create count(*) on a table
to know number of rows. But this query is more efficient given the fact that we
are only interested in knowing if table has any data.
SELECT 1
FROM TABLE_NAME
WHERE ROWNUM = 1;
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