LEFT function in Oracle

There is no documented LEFT() function in Oracle. Find the full set here. Probably what you have is a user-defined function. You can check that easily enough by querying the data dictionary: But there is the question of why the stored procedure works and the query doesn’t. One possible solution is that the stored procedure is … Read more

SQL – IF EXISTS UPDATE ELSE INSERT INTO

What I’m trying to do is INSERT subscribers in my database, but IF EXISTS it should UPDATE the row, ELSE INSERT INTO a new row. Ofcourse I connect to the database first and GET the $name, $email and $birthday from the url string. This works, but just adds the new row; Here’s what I tried; … Read more

How to create id with AUTO_INCREMENT on Oracle?

There is no such thing as “auto_increment” or “identity” columns in Oracle as of Oracle 11g. However, you can model it easily with a sequence and a trigger: Table definition: Trigger definition: UPDATE: IDENTITY column is now available on Oracle 12c: or specify starting and increment values, also preventing any insert into the identity column … Read more

ROW_NUMBER() in MySQ

I want the row with the single highest col3 for each (col1, col2) pair. That’s a groupwise maximum, one of the most commonly-asked SQL questions (since it seems like it should be easy, but actually it kind of isn’t). I often plump for a null-self-join: “Get the rows in the table for which no other … Read more

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