How can you execute the user defined triggers in forms 3.0 ?

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816. How can you execute the user defined triggers in forms 3.0 ?

Execute Trigger (trigger-name)

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• How can you avoid indexes ?
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• Can you alter synonym of view or view ?
• Can you create index on view
• What is the difference between a view and a synonym ?
• What is the difference between alias and synonym ?
• What is the effect of synonym and table name used in same Select statement ?
• What's the length of SQL integer ?
• What is the difference between foreign key and reference key ?
• Can dual table be deleted, dropped or altered or updated or inserted ?
• If content of dual is updated to some value computation takes place or not ?
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• For which relational operators in where clause, index is not used ?
• Assume that there are multiple databases running on one machine. How can you switch from one to another ?
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• What is a forward declaration ? What is its use ?
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• What are the types of Notation ?
• What all important parameters of the init.ora are supposed to be increased if you want to increase the SGA size ?
• If I have an execute privilege on a procedure in another users schema, can I execute his procedure even though I do not have privileges on the tables within the procedure ?
• What are various types of joins ?
• What is a package cursor ?
• If you insert a row in a table, then create another table and then say Rollback. In this case will the row be inserted ?
• What are the various types of queries ??
• What is a transaction ?
• What is implicit cursor and how is it used by Oracle ?
• Which of the following is not a schema object : Indexes, tables, public synonyms, triggers and packages ?
• What is PL/SQL?
• Is there a PL/SQL Engine in SQL*Plus?
• Is there a limit on the size of a PL/SQL block?
• Can one read/write files from PL/SQL?
• How can I protect my PL/SQL source code?
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