Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax ...

Learn how to master the SELECT statement to form truly useful data queries. This article explains functions, clauses, and keywords that will make your life a lot easier.

Statement level is the lowest level of granularity to fail or succeed upon. If you have in your example 100 records in table A to update based upon some logic (e.g. from another table, from a ...