Note:Primarily of value when moving large amounts of data in data warehouse
situations according to some people but in my opinion these statements don't belong anywhere unless the data volumes are so small as to be almost
laughable. The reason I will not use these statements is very simply that they are brain dead. By which I mean that they assume there is an equal
probability of the record being inserted or updated or deleted: This is never the case.
If the probability is that the record exists to be updated then use a FORALL UPDATE with SAVE EXCEPTIONS or an error logging table (DBMS_ERRLOG)
and clean up the small number of failures that will happen. |
| Merge Statement Demo |
MERGE <hint> INTO <table_name>
USING <table_view_or_query>
ON (<condition>)
WHEN MATCHED THEN <update_clause>
DELETE <where_clause>
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN <insert_clause>
[LOG ERRORS <log_errors_clause> <reject limit <integer | unlimited>]; |
CREATE TABLE employee (
employee_id NUMBER(5),
first_name VARCHAR2(20),
last_name VARCHAR2(20),
dept_no NUMBER(2),
salary NUMBER(10));
INSERT INTO employee VALUES (1, 'Dan', 'Morgan', 10, 100000);
INSERT INTO employee VALUES (2, 'Helen', 'Lofstrom', 20, 100000);
INSERT INTO employee VALUES (3, 'Akiko', 'Toyota', 20, 50000);
INSERT INTO employee VALUES (4, 'Jackie', 'Stough', 20, 40000);
INSERT INTO employee VALUES (5, 'Richard', 'Foote', 20, 70000);
INSERT INTO employee VALUES (6, 'Joe', 'Johnson', 20, 30000);
INSERT INTO employee VALUES (7, 'Clark', 'Urling', 20, 90000);
CREATE TABLE bonuses (
employee_id NUMBER, bonus NUMBER DEFAULT 100);
INSERT INTO bonuses (employee_id) VALUES (1);
INSERT INTO bonuses (employee_id) VALUES (2);
INSERT INTO bonuses (employee_id) VALUES (4);
INSERT INTO bonuses (employee_id) VALUES (6);
INSERT INTO bonuses (employee_id) VALUES (7);
COMMIT;
SELECT * FROM employee;
SELECT * FROM bonuses;
MERGE INTO bonuses b
USING (
SELECT employee_id, salary, dept_no
FROM employee
WHERE dept_no =20) e
ON (b.employee_id = e.employee_id)
WHEN MATCHED THEN
UPDATE SET b.bonus = e.salary * 0.1
DELETE WHERE (e.salary < 40000)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT (b.employee_id, b.bonus)
VALUES (e.employee_id, e.salary * 0.05)
WHERE (e.salary > 40000);
SELECT * FROM bonuses; |
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