the Oracle command
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Transcribed Image Text:**Oracle Assignment on Creating and Maintaining a Table (and Also a Few Queries)**
**For all problems, show the Oracle command you wrote and the results produced.**
1. **Create an Oracle table** with a minimum of two varchar(2) fields (one should be a person's name), a char field, a numeric field with decimal places, a numeric field for a whole number, and a date field.
2. **Show a description** of the table.
3. **Populate the table** with data; include a variety of data for effective querying. Display an insert statement you used.
The name varchar(2) fields should contain names in the format: last name, slash, first name, middle name or initial. Examples:
- Doe/John M
- Jones/Mary
- Adams-Costa/Susan Ann
- Langley/M Richard
4. **Change two fields** on a record and show both before and after the change.
5. **Make a change** that affects more than one record (but not all).
6. **Delete a record** and show both before and after the deletion.
7. **Alter the table structure** by adding a column/field and populating it. Show the results.
8. **Alter the table structure** by changing a varchar field to varchar2. Show the results.
9. **Search and find** how to alter the structure to delete a column. Demonstrate and show results. Provide the source of your explanation.
10. **Search and find** how to alter the structure to rename a column. Demonstrate and show results. Provide the source of your explanation.
11. **Query** that sorts data on two fields, specifying primary and secondary sorts. Show the results.
12. **Query** that uses 'between' to show results.
13. **Query** that uses a wildcard for missing characters.
14. **Query** that searches for one thing that has to be one of two others.
15. **Query** that adds a calculation to columns by adding two fields together and dividing by something.
16. **Query** where you test for nulls or something else.
17. **Query** that uses NOT and explains what you tried to accomplish.
18. **Query** converting upper or lower case to test.
19. **Query** that uses `substr`.
20. **Query** using the `instring` function.
21. **List** a
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