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Can’t extract string from database sql

My aim is to test if the user and password inserted, existed in Table1. However, if I typed (pink,floyd) which exists in the database count still null and it appears the message “user doesn’t exist”. Here’s my database : Answer It turns that the stocked user and pass parameters in Tabl…

Order by case insensitive in oracle

I want to order a following text in following order but, after trying the following query it is not working. values to order is “A”, “B”, “Y”, “Z”, “a”, “b”, “y”, “z”. Expected result “ZzYyBbAa” …

How to retrieve half of records from a table – Oracle 11g

How can i retrieve (select) half of records from a table, for example, a table with 1000 rows, retrieve 500 (50%) from the table. (in this case i can use rownum because we know the exact quantity of rows (1000) – select * from table where rownum <= 500), but i have to count every table to achieve the…

Save datetime in sql table

How I can insert with a query a date like this? 2015-06-02T11:18:25.000 I have tried this: But I have returned: I tried also: but it is not working: The entire query is: What is wrong? Answer Try this: 126 relates to ISO8601, which is the format yyyy-mm-ddThh:mi:ss.mmm. This is the same format as the string &…

RANDBETWEEN for SQL Server 2012

How would you create a function that returns a random number between two number? example syntax RandBetween(3,300) Answer How about Use RAND() (which returns a value between 0 and 1 (exclusive). multiply by 298 (since you want a dynamic range of [300-3] = 297 + 1) add 3 to Offset and cast to INT? i.e. Fiddle …