Procedural Language/Structured Query Language is Oracle Corporation's procedural language extension for SQL. Questions about PL/SQL should probably be tagged "oracle" as well.

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how to write pl/sql named programme for this [closed]

I have a table M_PARAMETER which has a column MMRUN. When this MMRUN='Y' then the User can not modify any transaction in the app's front end. When MMRUN='N' then the User can do the modification. ...
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How can I ensure that only one copy of a procedure is running in Oracle?

We have the need to ensure that only one copy of a particular procedure is running in Oracle. If it is already running and a user tries to open another, then it should error. Whats the best method ...
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How to differentiate between SQL and PL/SQL?

I know the question might sound too stupid, but I never understood this part. SQL*Plus works with both SQL and PL/SQL. How do I know whether some code is SQL or PL/SQL? If my code has a for ...
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Transform XPath map into XML document using relational data

Background Most modern databases have XML functions that can be used to extract data in an XML format. I want to avoid the task of manually calling XML functions to extract the data. This problem ...
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Oracle Advanced Queuing LIFO

With Oracle's Advanced Queuing is there a way to dequeue messages in a LIFO (last in first out) order? There is an indication through a lack of information that this is not an option, but perhaps ...
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What is an Effective Way to Count the Number of Pages in Oracle?

We've implemented paging in our PL/SQL procedures by building a dynamic SQL query and then selection only a portion of results. We build implement paging by putting the original query inside a ...
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ORA-01427:single-row subquery returns more than one row

I wrote in PL/SQL Developer: select * from lc_history2 and I got that error: ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row Can someone help? It's necessary.