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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…

Do I need a where clause in a conditional UPDATE?

We imported a lot of data from another table. Now I’m trying to correct some of them. I didn’t use ELSE because many rows have valid country. My question is to know whether I need to the WHERE clause to filter the rows that will be affected? The reason I’m asking this question is that, I&#82…

Query with rownum got slow

I have got a table table with 21 millions records of which 20 millions meet the criterion col1= ‘text’. I then started iteratively to set the value of col2 to a value unequal to NULL. After I have mutated 10 million records, the following query got slow, that was fast in the beginning: I noticed t…

Sqlite get max id not working (?)

Im using this: But my query is empty. I have also tried this (This one works): But obviusly my query only contains the max_id key. What am I doing wrong with the first one? Answer You need to add another level of select for the MAX, like this: A better approach would be to order by id in descending order,