The foundation for all Oracle professionals is the SQL language along with Oracle's SQL*Plus extensions. A detailed consideration of these languages includes such topics as creating and maintaining table definitions in the data dictionary, specifying data types, manipulating tables and developing sophisticated queries quickly and accurately. This course was formerly called Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL & SQL*Plus.
SQL DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE CREATE TABLE STATEMENT SELECT NOT NULL DEFAULT ALTER, DROP DESCRIBE, RENAME
USING THE SQL*PLUS TOOL INTERACTIVE SQL WITH SQL*PLUS Graphical SQL*Plus EXIT or QUIT HOST or $ SPOOL START or @ LIST, SAVE, GET RUN or / EDIT, APPEND, CHANGE, DEL, INPUT
SQL DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE ABOUT SQL DML SELECT, INSERT INSERT Using SELECT DELETE, UPDATE ABOUT TRANSACTIONS ROLLBACK, COMMIT, SAVEPOINT COMPLEX TABLE REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION TO SQL QUERIES SELECT DISTINCT ALIAS NAMES
BUILDING A WHERE CLAUSE EQUALITY, Inequality BOOLEAN NULL AND BETWEEN IS [NOT] NULL [NOT] BETWEEN [NOT] LIKE IN
ORDERING THE RESULT TABLE ABOUT THE ORDER BY CLAUSE INCLUDING MULTIPLE COLUMNS SPECIFYING THE SORT SEQUENCE NULL VALUES AND ORDER BY SORTING BY UN-SELECTED COLUMNS REFERRING TO COLUMN ALIASES
PSEUDO COLUMNS AND FUNCTIONS THE PSEUDO COLUMNS ROWNUM, SYSDATE, USER & UID THE DUAL TABLE
JOINING TABLES EQUI-JOIN REFLEXIVE JOIN NON KEY-JOIN OUTER JOIN
USING SET OPERATORS UPON TABLES SET OPERATOR EXAMPLES UNION, INTERSECT, MINUS PERFORMING A FULL OUTER JOIN
ABOUT SUMMARY FUNCTIONS
USING SUBQUERIES
CREATING & SELECTING GROUPS GROUP BY Example SELECTING DATA FROM THE BASE TABLES HAVING
CREATING & USING VIEWS
INDEXES & SYNONYMS
UNDERSTANDING THE DATA DICTIONARY ABOUT THE DATA DICTIONARY Query DD: USER_TABLES, USER_TAB_COLUMNS, USER_OBJECTS
BUILD SIMPLE SQL*PLUS REPORTS