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How to bind variable in string in SQL query?

I am using SQL Developer. When I want to bind value. Normally I use following syntax: but, I don’t know how to do that in string. The following query does not work. Why do I need it? Because my program runs a query in python and assigns something to bind variable: Answer Concatenate the prefix/suffix wi…

Sampling a large number of rows from a table

I want to extract a roughly 5 million row sample from a table that will contain somewhere between 10 million and 20 million rows. Due to the large number of rows, efficiency is key. As such, I am trying to avoid sorting the rows where possible, hence why I am avoiding the dbms_random.value solution that I hav…

How to automate source control with Oracle database

I work in an Oracle instance that has hundreds of schemas and multiple developers. We have a development instance where developers can integrate their work before test or production. We want to have source control for all the DDL run in this integrated development database. Currently this is done through a pr…