A wise man* once said: So no-one told you life was gonna be this way. Your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s DOA. It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear. And when it hasn’t been your day, you week, your month, or even your year.
[*That wise man wasn’t me; but stick with me, I promise to bring this back around to Oracle SQL imminently. ]
So – since it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year – you decide to go to Central Perk with your friends Ross, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler and Joey. Oh, and that new friend you made that’s also named Ross Geller. The music is loud, the atmosphere is great, and a good time is had by everyone.
You wake up the next morning with a bit of a sore head and try to recall everything that went on the night before: you’d discovered that Chandler’s middle name is Muriel, and that Ross’ is Eustace. Rachel gave you her new phone number. Phoebe gave you her new address. Oh, and you had a big fight with new Ross and decided you no longer want to be friends with him.
You roll out of bed and groggily wipe your eyes: all this new information needs recording; you’d better fire up your database.
UPDATE
Since we thoroughly looked into SELECT statements in the previous part, we can now turn our attention to UPDATE statements. In SQL we use update statements to change existing records – not to create new records or to delete them – just to change them.
The syntax for update statements is as follows:
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