Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a size limit of 2,000 characters, you ...

Oracle SQL*Plus has a very useful subparameter to the column parameter called NEW_VALUE. The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the ...

In this hands-on, we will work on a library model. In this scenario, we will become the developers and maintainers of the database system of a public library. The library administrators want to ...

#description This file contains routines that may be used to execute SQL queries and describe tables from within VIM. It depends on SQL*Plus. You must have $ORACLE ...

The Oracle SQL*Plus product has introduced some new features that have long been missing from this utility program, and some to support the new features. Here's a rundown of the new features in Oracle ...