I am using ORACLE SQL* PLUS XE 11g. I made a Vehicles table with: And added data with: Note: Original code consists of many columns Now to print data in this table on terminal, I used This printed the table in a unordered format. I hope you know what I mean. Something like this: To solve this issue, I used
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Why are these 2 queries giving different outputs?
Query no 1:- The Query 1 gives me the following output:- Query no 2:- The Query 2 gives me the following output:- Answer Summary: The AND operator has higher precedence than the OR operator. To fix it, use brackets around the OR expression. AND has higher precedence than OR so your first query is the equivale…
SQL – How to print calculated datetime result
If a.modified_datetime is ‘2021/10/01 13:00:00’ and b.modified_datetime is ‘2021/10/01 12:30:00’, the result of this query would be: However, I run this query via sqlplus, it returns What’s wrong with this query, or need to set some options to sqlplus? Answer it is stored in a da…
Getting not valid month in Oracle sql
I have a table called Transactions that has a column called trans_date. I am just trying to do a simple query in the SQL*Plus command window The query is When I run this query I get not valid month and there is a little * under trans_date. Most of what I have read suggests the query is right but I
Order by the Compute of Count in SQL
Hi I get the results that I’m looking for however, I want to order it by the count from the compute. Anyone have any ideas. Answer One approach is to use window functions to calculate and order by that value. The following orders the result by n descending, but doesn’t include n in the final SELEC…
How to subtract Expenses from Gross Profit from sql plus query?
I have to calculate Net profit So i have following query. How can i subtract “Total Expenses” from “Total Gross Profit”: SELECT SUM(orders.quantity * orders.price) AS “…
spool to .csv file using for loop
need to spool output into .csv file using loop, fyi…I have data in 4 diff partition. but no sure how to proceed. code be like. result:- not sure if I am spooling properly, also please check the index variable of for loop in used correctly in my select statement. Answer You don’t need 4 different q…
Oracle SQL Inserting multiple rows into a table while referencing 2 FK
I’m trying to insert values id_team_FK and id_location_FK which both come from the same table. For example id_team_FK = 4 and id_location_FK = 150. The problem is, id_team_FK must be a randomly chosen …
Columns in SQLPlus report display longer than database column size
I have a number of sql reports that used to work fine. Recently however they have started to be outputted with the column widths being longer than they should. According to Oracle’s documentation if a column in an sql report has no explicit “COLUMN” definition at the start of the report, eg …
SQLPLUS : set sqlformat insert : SP2-0158
I want to export all my datas as insert statement. In Sql Developer, the command “set sqlformat insert” work very well… but when I want to use it on sqlplus, I have this error message : SP2-0158 unknown SET option “sqlformat” This command work when it’s use on a script but …