In Oracle Database, you can format numbers in many ways.
For example, you can format a number as a currency, with commas and decimal points in the right place. You can specify leading zeros, you can add a fractional part – or remove it, if that’s what’s required.
Continue readingI previously explained how to install SQL Server on a Mac using the SQL Server for Linux Docker image.
Since then, Apple has released its M1 chip, which uses ARM architecture. This can cause a problem when trying to install SQL Server. The problem is, at the time of writing, SQL Server isn’t supported on the ARM architecture.
Fortunately, there’s an alternative.
Continue readingIn Oracle Database, we can use the TO_CHAR(datetime) function to return the various date parts from a datetime value, including the short day name.
The short day name is also referred to as the abbreviated day name. In any case, below are examples of returning the short day name from a date value in Oracle.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, you can use the ALTER LOGIN statement to change the default language for a specific login.
Doing this will ensure that whenever that login connects to SQL Server, all date/time formats and system messages are presented in the correct format and language.
Continue readingIn Oracle Database, you can use the TO_CHAR() function to convert a number to its hexadecimal equivalent. To do this, use the X format element.
When getting the day and/or month name from a date in Oracle, you may want to return it in uppercase, lowercase, or title case.
Fortunately, this is easy to do. The result reflects the capitalisation of your format model.
Continue readingWhen using SQLcl to query Oracle Database, you can use the SET SQLFORMAT command to determine the format of the results.
You can also use inline comments to specify the format from directly within your query.
Continue readingWhen using SQLcl with Oracle Database, you can use the SPOOL command to export your query results to a file with an .html extension, and you can set SQLFORMAT to html in order to output the actual query results in HTML format.
If you need to replace a substring with another string in MariaDB, here are two approaches that you can use.
Continue readingYou can do this to export your query results to a CSV file when using SQL Developer to query Oracle Database.
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