Find the minimum or maximum value across several columns?

SELECT max(c) FROM

  (SELECT col1 AS c FROM t1
   UNION
   SELECT col2 AS c FROM t1) AS t2

case
when Col1 < Col2 then Col1
else Col2
end as NewCol

How can I selet rows which have 2 columns values cross equal?

SELECT t1.id, t1.a, t1.b

  FROM test t1, test t2
  WHERE
    t1.a = t2.b
    AND
    t1.b = t2.a
  ORDER BY t1.id;

List all customers from table customers that haven't made any order during year 2005?

SELECT c.firstname, c.lastname, c.address FROM customers c

WHERE c.id NOT IN (SELECT o.customer_id FROM orders o WHERE year(o.order_date)
= 2005)

List all customers who ordered products where price of the item is $100 greater than average order?

SELECT c.id, c.firstname, c.lastname

FROM customers c INNER JOIN orders o ON c.customer_id = c.customer_id
WHERE o.price >
(SELECT AVG(o.price) + 100
FROM orders o)

List all customers whose name is present more than once in the table?. SELECT count(*), name
FROM customers
GROUP BY name
HAVING (count(*)>=2)

Create a third row that make the sum of past row + current row (i.e. a running sum)?.

SELECT T2.WEEK, T2.TOTAL, COALESCE(SUM(T1.TOTAL), 0) AS T

FROM MY_TABLE T1
       LEFT OUTER JOIN MY_TABLE T2
             ON T1.WEEK < T2.WEEK
GROUP BY T2.WEEK, T2.TOTAL
ORDER BY 1 DESC
SELECT t2.week, t2.total, sum(t1.total)
FROM  MY_TABLE T1,  MY_TABLE T2
 WHERE T1.WEEK <=t2.week
GROUP BY  t2.week, T2.total
ORDER BY t2.week ASC

List all results except the biggest?

SELECT(*)
FROM TABLE
WHERE COLUMN NOT IN
(SELECT max(COLUMN)
FROM TABLE);

How to declare Composite Keys?

ALTER TABLE tablename

 ADD CONSTRAINT constraint_name
  PRIMARY KEY (attribute1,attribute2)

How to pull data from several tables that follows a pattern?

Oracle provides Dynamic SQL facilities that would be the basis for a solution.
The main points:
1. You create a "for ... loop ... end loop" to iterate over the table names that follow the pattern.
2. Inside the loop (for each table) you append a sql "select ..." text to form a union of the data in
all tables.
3. At the end you execute the constructed sql text.

There can be variations of this solution. You could use the "execute immediate .." construct or
the dbms_sql facility.
Or, instead of concatenating, inside the loop you could actually execute the single-table sql.

FOR t IN (SELECT object_name FROM user_objects WHERE object_type='TABLE' AND

object_name LIKE 'ex_%')
loop
 ...
end loop

Query a table using data in another table?

SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE Salary=(SELECT salary FROM Salaries WHERE

SalaryType="Manager")

Do two joins in a single query?

SELECT
 projects.name,
 (SELECT name FROM people WHERE id=projects.developer) AS "developer",
 (SELECT name FROM people WHERE id=projects.requestor) AS "requestor"
FROM
 projects

Columns to Rows
UNPIVOT (11g)

Transforming columns into rows is easily accomplished with the SELECT command's
UNPIVOT clause, introduced in Oracle 11g.

select key, source, val

from
t UNPIVOT INCLUDE NULLS
( VAL FOR( SOURCE ) IN
( C1 AS 'C1',
C2 AS 'C2',
C3 AS 'C3'
)
)
order by key, source ;

displaying a group by and grand total all on one line?

Below is more conceptual than actual code since I'm in a big rush right now, but I believe the
quickest way to obtain results for you would be a subselect. Using a subselect would allow you
total without grouping by all the other columns that would force the group by.

SELECT sum(TABLE1.COLUMN1), TABLE1.INDEXCOLUMN,

TABLE1.SOMEOTHERDATA, TABLE2.GRANDTOTAL
FROM TABLE1,
( SELECT sum(TABLE1.COLUMN1) AS "GRANDTOTAL",
FROM TABLE1 ) TABLE2
WHERE...
GROUP BY TABLE1.INDEXCOLUMN, TABLE1.SOMEOTHERDATA, null AS
GRANDTOTAL

How to retrieve records which the date column should be 36 months older than the current date?

SELECT * FROM dates_table WHERE date_column < (current_date - interval 3 year)

How to find second highest value of a column in a table?

SELECT TOP 1 quantity  FROM Trade

  WHERE quantity < (SELECT MAX(quantity)  FROM Trade)
  ORDER BY  quantity DESC;
SELECT quantity   FROM Trade WHERE  quantity=(SELECT MAX(quantity)
FROM Trade WHERE  quantity<> (SELECT MAX(quantity) FROM  Trade))

How to find second highest value of a column in a table? | SQL?

Consider the following data:

score player
#1 100 Alex
#2 100 Bob
#3 98 Toto
...
#9 20 Lilirtyry
SELECT score,player FROM scores WHERE score=(SELECT max(score) FROM scores
WHERE score< (SELECT max(score) FROM scores));

How to find second highest value of a column in a table? | SQL?

SELECT min(empmarks )
FROM emp
WHERE  empmarks IN (SELECT top 3 empmarks FROM emp
        ORDER BY empmarks DESC)

How do I find out which columns are foreign keys in a table?

SELECT Parent.TABLE_NAME Parent_TABLE,

       Parent.CONSTRAINT_NAME Parent_CONSTRAINT,
       RTRIM(Child.TABLE_NAME) Child_TABLE, atc.comments AS Table_Desc,
        Child.CONSTRAINT_NAME Child_CONSTRAINT,
        RTRIM(col.COLUMN_NAME) AS Child_Col, col.POSITION AS
Child_Col_Position
       ,CHILD.Delete_Rule, CHILD.STATUS
 FROM All_CONSTRAINTS Child, All_CONSTRAINTS Parent, sys.all_tab_comments atc,
ALL_CONS_COLUMNS col
 WHERE Child.R_CONSTRAINT_NAME = Parent.CONSTRAINT_NAME
 AND   Child.TABLE_NAME != Parent.TABLE_NAME
 AND   Parent.TABLE_NAME = upper('&Parent_Table_Name')
 AND   Child.owner = atc.Owner(+)
 AND   Child.TABLE_NAME = atc.table_name(+)
 AND   col.owner = child.owner
 AND   Child.constraint_name = col.constraint_name
 ORDER BY Child.TABLE_NAME

Selecting Duplicate Entries in a table?

These are my 3 column headings

TOrder_NO
TPart_NO
Qty

In 33 records TOrder_NO and TPart_NO are the same how can i run a query to just select these 33
records.

SELECT torder_no,tpart_no FROM orders GROUP BY torder_no,tpart_no HAVING

count(*)>1;

How to perform aggregation (sum) on a computed column?

SELECT
(AGE * 10) AS XYZ,
(SELECT SUM(AGE * 10) FROM MY_TABLE ) AS XYZ_SUM
FROM MY_TABLE

How to union two tables, and make one "override" the other for similar records?.

SELECT MktCode,Date,Price
FROM tblStockPrices AS t1
LEFT JOIN tblOverridePrices AS t2
ON t1.date=t2.date AND t1.mktcode=t2.mktcode
WHERE
T2.ID IS NULL
UNION
SELECT MktCode,Date,Price
FROM tblOverridePrices

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SELECT
 DISTINCT t1.mktcode, t1.date, case when t2.mktcode IS NULL then t1.price else
t2.price end
FROM
 tblstockprices t1
LEFT JOIN tbloverrideprices t2 ON t1.mktcode=t2.mktcode AND t1.date=t2.date

Find matches with no repeats?

can i wrire a query which sum up more than 2 columns in a single table?

SELECT sum(col1+col2+col3) FROM theTable

SELECT sum(col) FROM (SELECT sum(c1) AS col FROM t union ALL SELECT sum(c2) AS
col FROM t union ALL SELECT sum(c3) FROM t) AS theTable

how to find nth salary?

SELECT Sal FROM emp e WHERE (&n-1) = (SELECT DISTINCT(count(*)) FROM emp WHERE
sal > e.sal)
Find maximum value between 2 columns of different table

select max(c) from

(
select c from a
union all
select c from b
) u;

how do we delete redundant entries from a table ?

suppose there is a table named "temp" having a column "col1" and "col2".

col1 col2
---- ---
abc 100
abc 100
abc 150
xyz 200
xyz 200

then the query would be as:

"delete from temp t where t.col1 in(select t1.col1 from temp t1 where t.rowid< t1.rowid) and t.col2
in(select t1.col2 from temp t1 where t.rowid <
t1.rowid);"

Update while keeping previous value

UPDATE ChecksA a
JOIN ChecksB b ON a.Check_Num = b.CheckNo
SET a.prevStatus = b.Curr_STS
WHERE (a.Check_Num IN(SELECT CheckNo FROM ChecksB)) AND
( (a.prevStatus = null) OR (a.prevStatus != b.Curr_STS ));

/* Update Statements to be run, handling all of the possible incoming status

codes */

UPDATE ChecksB
SET Curr_STS = '04'
WHERE (CheckNo IN(SELECT Check_Num FROM ChecksA WHERE Status_Code =
'R')) AND (Curr_STS != '04');
complex sql
create table tab1(sid number, num number,flag varchar2(1),link_sid number,t_id number)
create table main_t(sid number, num number,flag varchar2(1),link_sid number,t_id number)

insert into tab1 values (1,100,'N',2,2);

insert into main_t values (2,200,'Y',1,2);
insert into main_t values (3,200,'N',43,23);

The data is like this:

sid, and link_sid is a pair Eg: sid 1 in tab1 = link_sid 1 in main_t

The t_id value is the flag 'Y' sid value for both the records

Eg: 2 is the t_id for the pair ('N' and 'Y')

Now I need to join tab1 and main_t in such a way that if flag is N in tab1, get the corresponding Y
from main_t AND vice versa

1.SELECT * -- or whatever columns you want

FROM main_table m
JOIN tabl t ON m.link_sid = t.sid
WHERE m.flag || t.flag IN ( 'NY', 'YN');
2. SELECT * -- or whatever columns you want
FROM main_table m
JOIN tabl t ON m.link_sid = t.sid
WHERE ( m.flag = 'N;
AND t.flag = 'Y')
OR ( m.flag = 'Y; AND t.flag = 'N');

to get the year

you could use Oracle's Extract function as follows:

SELECT extract (Year From to_Date('07/31/2010','MM/DD/YYYY')) Year FROM DUAL;
With Oracle Extract, you can extract day, month and year.

--PL/SQL Function to check user name and password

procedure check_pass(p_user varchar2, p_pass varchar2) is

pragma autonomous_transaction;
v_passwd varchar2(200);
begin
select passwd into v_passwd
from password_table
where user_name=p_user;
if v_passwd!=p_pass then
update password_table set
last_unsucc_logon=sysdate
,unsucc_logon_n=nvl(unsucc_logon_n,0)+1
where user_name=p_user;
commit;
raise_application_error(-20101,'Invalid username/password!');
end if;
exception
when no_data_found then
raise_application_error(-20101,'Invalid username/password!');
end;

declare
2 function digest( p_username in varchar2, p_password in varchar2 )
return
varchar2
3 is
4 begin
5 return ltrim( to_char( dbms_utility.get_hash_value(
upper(p_username)||'/'||upper(p_password),
6 1000000000,
power(2,30) ),
7 rpad( 'X',29,'X')||'X' ) );
8 end digest;
9 begin
10 for x in ( select username from all_users where rownum < 20 )
11 loop
12 dbms_output.put_line( 'User: ' || rpad( x.username , 30 ) ||
13 ' digest: ' || digest( x.username,
'TIGER' ) );
14 end loop;
15 end;

first day of year and next monday of the year

select trunc(to_date('2011','yy')) first_day_of_year,

next_day(trunc(to_date('2011','yy')), 'MON') next_monday
from dual

find department with max duplicate salaries

SELECT deptno,salary,cnt FROM

2 (select deptno, salary,COUNT(*) cnt,MAX(COUNT(*)) OVER() mx
3 FROM emp
4 group by deptno,salary)
5* where cnt = mx

Find 3rd highest salary without using rowid,rownum and rank

select max(sal) from emp where sal < (select max(sal) from emp where sal <
(select max(sal) from emp));

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=863295

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=75&start=135

How to create a temporary table

[A] 8i or later
create global temporary tablename (column list)
on commit preserve rows; - to submit a session temporary table to hold data
on commit delete rows; - submitted to delete the temporary table temporary table data transaction is
relative to the session, other sessions can not see the session data.

how to run samples in ORACLE stored procedure in the timing

[A] can be used dbms_job package to run the job from time to time, such as the implementation of the
stored procedure, a simple example, to submit a job:
VARIABLE jobno number;
BEGIN
DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT (: jobno, 'ur_procedure;', SYSDATE, 'SYSDATE + 1');
commit;
END;
After, you can query with the following statement has been submitted to the operation
select * from user_jobs;