Today we will cover more SQL Plus using Oracle databases 10g & 11g. We will dive deeply into DDL statements and how we can use them to create database tables through the command line.

You create a CLOB in Oracle through the database's Structured Query Language, or SQL. Using SQL's "ALTER TABLE" statement, you add a CLOB data item to an existing table in your business' database.

The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the SQL*Plus script. Written by Donald Burleson, Contributor June 18, 2002 at 6:01 p.m. PT ...