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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Operators

Oracle supports the following standard operators:

  • Arithmetic: + - * /

  • Concatenation: ||

  • Set operators, which work on groups of rows:

    UNION

    All rows selected by either query

    UNION ALL

    All rows selected by either query including duplicates

    INTERSECT

    All distinct rows selected by both queries

    MINUS

    All distinct rows selected by the first query but not the second

  • User-defined operators: You can create your own special-purpose operators with the CREATE OPERATOR statement. New with Oracle9i.

Operators are evaluated according to the precedence level of the operator, where operators with precedence level 1 are evaluated first. Table B-1 lists the precedence levels of operators and conditions. All operators with the same precedence are evaluated left to right within an expression. Oracle will evaluate all operators within a set of parentheses first.

Table B-1. Precedence levels for operators and conditions

Precedence

Operator/condition

1

+ (positive), - (negative), PRIOR

2

*, /

3

+ (addition), - (subtraction), || (concatenation)

4

=, != (not equals), <, >, <=, >=

5

IS [NOT] NULL, [NOT] LIKE, [NOT] BETWEEN, [NOT] IN, EXISTS, IS [NOT] OF type

6

NOT

7

AND

8

OR

All set and user-defined operators have equal precedence and are evaluated from left to right after the expressions used in the operations have been evaluated.

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