Check constraint with decode and nvl2 : Check « Table « Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial

SQL>
SQL> create table employees
  2  ( empno      NUMBER(4)    constraint E_PK
  3                            primary key
  4                            constraint E_EMPNO_CHK
  5                            check (empno > 7000)
  6  , job        VARCHAR2(8)
  7  , comm       NUMBER(6,2)
  8  , constraint E_SALES_CHK  check
  9                            (decode(job,'SALESREP',0,1)
 10                             + nvl2(comm,          1,0) = 1)
 11  ) ;

Table created.

SQL>
SQL> drop table employees;

Table dropped.

6.13.Check
	6.13.1.	Create a table with check constraint
	6.13.2.	Adding a CHECK Constraint
	6.13.3.	Use comparison operators with a CHECK constraint
	6.13.4.	Constraint with Two conditions
	6.13.5.	Add condition constraint with 'and' operator
	6.13.6.	Check constraint with decode and nvl2
	6.13.7.	Check constraint with MOD function
	6.13.8.	A column with upper case constraint
	6.13.9.	check constraint: must be positive value
	6.13.10.	Check constraint: one column must less than another column
	6.13.11.	Add constraint to ensure that value from one column is bigger than that from another
	6.13.12.	Salary column value cannot be greater than 1000
	6.13.13.	Setting CHECK constraint for number type field
	6.13.14.	Setting the Regular expression check for varchar field
	6.13.15.	Use char function to build default column value
	6.13.16.	Use decode() function in check constraints
	6.13.17.	Violate a ckeck constraint
	6.13.18.	Must be upper case