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Contents Send Us Your Comments ........................................... vii Preface ........................................................... ix 6 SQL Statements ACCEPT Statement ......................................... 6–2 ALTER Statements ......................................... 6–7 ALTER CONSTRAINT Statement .............................. 6–8 ALTER DATABASE Statement ................................ 6–12 ALTER DOMAIN Statement . ................................. 6–86 ALTER FUNCTION Statement ................................ 6–102 ALTER INDEX Statement . ................................. 6–109 ALTER MODULE Statement . ................................. 6–131 ALTER OUTLINE Statement ................................. 6–138 ALTER PROCEDURE Statement .............................. 6–144 ALTER PROFILE Statement . ................................. 6–150 ALTER ROLE Statement ..................................... 6–152 ALTER SEQUENCE Statement ................................ 6–155 ALTER STORAGE MAP Statement ............................. 6–164 ALTER SYNONYM Statement ................................. 6–179 ALTER TABLE Statement . ................................. 6–181 ALTER TRIGGER Statement . ................................. 6–221 ALTER USER Statement ..................................... 6–224 ALTER VIEW Statement ..................................... 6–227 ATTACH Statement ......................................... 6–233 BEGIN DECLARE Statement ................................. 6–244 CALL Statement for Simple Statements ......................... 6–247 CALL Statement for Compound Statements ...................... 6–250 iii CASE (Searched) Control Statement ............................ 6–254 CASE (Simple) Control Statement .............................. 6–256 CLOSE Statement .......................................... 6–259 COMMENT ON Statement ................................... 6–261 COMMIT Statement . ...................................... 6–269 Compound Statement . ...................................... 6–275 CONNECT Statement . ...................................... 6–290 CREATE Statements . ...................................... 6–302 CREATE CACHE Clause ..................................... 6–303 CREATE CATALOG Statement . .............................. 6–314 CREATE COLLATING SEQUENCE Statement .................... 6–318 CREATE DATABASE Statement . .............................. 6–323 CREATE DOMAIN Statement . .............................. 6–386 CREATE FUNCTION Statement . .............................. 6–399 CREATE INDEX Statement ................................... 6–400 CREATE MODULE Statement . .............................. 6–426 CREATE OUTLINE Statement . .............................. 6–451 CREATE PROCEDURE Statement ............................. 6–474 CREATE PROFILE Statement . .............................. 6–475 CREATE ROLE Statement ................................... 6–478 CREATE ROUTINE Statement . .............................. 6–483 CREATE SCHEMA Statement . .............................. 6–503 Index Tables 6–1 Updating Data Definitions While Users Are Attached to the Database .............................................. 6–64 6–2 Updating Database-Wide Parameters While Users Are Attached to the Database ........................................... 6–68 6–3 Constraint Attributes Syntax Permutations and Equivalents . ..... 6–190 6–4 ALTER and DROP Statements Causing or Not Causing Stored Routine Invalidation ..................................... 6–434 iv Send Us Your Comments Oracle Rdb for OpenVMS Oracle SQL Reference Manual, Release 7.2 Oracle Corporation welcomes your comments and suggestions on the quality and usefulness of this publication. 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