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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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Common Keywords and Identifiers

Many keywords are used in multiple SQL statements. To conserve pages, these common keywords are listed here, rather than repeated in each SQL statement in which they are used.

See also the discussion of datatypes in Appendix A, of expressions, operators, and conditions in Appendix B, of numeric format elements in Appendix C, and of date format elements in Appendix D.

alias

Alternate name by which an object, such as a table, can be referenced.

column

Name of a column in a table or view.

COMPRESS integer

Specifies that key compression be enabled during creation of an index. integer specifies the number of prefix columns to compress.

date

Specifies a date in Oracle date format. This date format must match the default date format for the database (see Appendix A).

dblink

Name of a database link, which provides access to schema objects that reside in a remote database.

expr

Any valid Oracle expression, usually involving one or more columns from the table, view, or snapshot. See Appendix B for details.

filename

Name of a file in operating system-specific format.

indexname

Name of an index. The name may be prefixed by the owner name (schema).

integer

Any number without a decimal point or decimal component.

LOGGING

Specifies that redo log records will be written during creation of the object. This is the default.

NOCOMPRESS

Specifies that key compression be disabled during index creation. This is the default.

NOLOGGING

Specifies that redo log records ...

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