When a SELECT into statement does not return a row?

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If the SELECT statement returns more than one row, Oracle will raise the TOO_MANY_ROWS exception. If the SELECT statement does not return any row, Oracle will raise the NO_DATA_FOUND exception.

What happened if a SELECT into statement returns more than one rows in a PL SQL block?

If a SELECT INTO statement returns more than one row, PL/SQL raises the predefined exception TOO_MANY_ROWS and %ROWCOUNT yields 1 , not the actual number of rows that satisfy the query.

What is SELECT into in Oracle?

The SELECT INTO statement retrieves data from one or more database tables, and assigns the selected values to variables or collections. For a full description of the SELECT statement, see Oracle Database SQL Reference.

What is SELECT into in Plsql?

The SELECT INTO clause of SQL is used to retrieve one row or set of columns from the Oracle database. The SELECT INTO is actually a standard SQL query where the SELECT INTO clause is used to place the returned data into predefined variables.

What will happen if we do not specify any INTO statement in a SELECT query?

If we do not specify any Filegroups in SQL Server 2017 and above, it creates a table in default Filegroup. Note: We cannot specify Filegroups in the SQL SELECT INTO for SQL Server 2016 and before.

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