Workshop

The Workshop provides quiz questions to help solidify your understanding of the material covered, as well as exercises to provide you with experience in using what you have learned. Try to answer the quiz and exercise questions before checking the answers in Appendix A, “Answers.”

Quiz

1:From where is the system date and time for a relational database normally derived?
2:List the standard internal elements of a DATETIME value.
3:What could be a major factor concerning the representation and comparison of date and time values if your company is an international organization?
4:Why is it not a good idea to store an individual's age in a database?

Exercises

Exercises 1–3 are intended for use with Oracle's implementation of SQL. Exercises 4–9 ...

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