Posts Tagged ‘database queries’

Generating Random Data in Oracle

Most of the times, production data is not available in development environments. Here, I would like to share a single sql command which can generate random data. But before that, let's address another issue faced by a lot of new oracle users. We need to generate a sequence of numbers using a sql statement. This will generate a number sequence. ...

Deleting Duplicate Rows in Oracle

Deleting Duplicate Rows in Oracle
Deleting duplicate rows from tables is one of the common task oracle developers come across. The data might get duplicated because of missing primary/unique key on the table or batch file getting loaded multiple times. Here I have tried to summarize different ways of deleting this duplicated data. Please note that this is not an extensive list ...

Fetch Random rows from Database (MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL)

Fetch Random rows from Database (MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL)
Ever thought why would one need to fetch random rows from a database table? You may want to display some random information (like articles/pages/links) to your user. I had a requirement wherein I had to fetch 10 random rows from MySQL database and display it on screen. I used following simple query for retrieving random records ...
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