Richard Walsh Earp Sikha Saha Bagui Wordware Publishing, Inc Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Earp, Richard, 1940Advanced SQL functions in Oracle 10g / by Richard Walsh Earp and Sikha Saha Bagui p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN-13: 978-1-59822-021-6 ISBN-10: 1-59822-021-7 (pbk.) 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Wordware Publishing, Inc Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Earp, Richard, 194 0Advanced SQL functions in Oracle 10g / by Richard Walsh Earp and Sikha Saha Bagui p cm Includes bibliographical... 209- 210 user-defined functions, creating for column objects, 292-297 creating for VARRAY, 320-324 V VALUE function, using, 291-292 using with VARRAY, 306-307 values, inserting into table, 275 inserting... 67 using, 278 wildcard operator, 232 windowing, logical, 137-143 windowing subclause, 120 X XML, 338 displaying in a browser, 342-344 generating from SQL tables, 344-347 problems with using attributes