You need to generate a report in the following format: …

View the Exhibit and examine the structure of the PRODUCTS table. You need to generate a report in the
following format:
CATEGORIES
5MP Digital Photo Camera’s category is Photo
Y Box’s category is Electronics
Envoy Ambassador’s category is Hardware
Which two queries would give the required output? (Choose two.)

A.
SELECT prod_name || q”’s category is ‘ || prod_category CATEGORIES FROM products;

B.
SELECT prod_name || q'[‘s ]’category is ‘ || prod_category CATEGORIES FROM products;

C.
SELECT prod_name || q’\\’s\\’ || ‘ category is ‘ || prod_category CATEGORIES FROM products;

D.
SELECT prod_name || q'<‘s >’ || ‘category is ‘ || prod_category CATEGORIES FROM products;

Explanation:
So, how are words that contain single quotation marks dealt with? There are essentially two mechanisms
available. The most popular of these is to add an additional single quotation mark next to each naturally
occurring single quotation mark in the character string
Oracle offers a neat way to deal with this type of character literal in the form of the alternative quote (q)
operator. Notice that the problem is that Oracle chose the single quote characters as the special pair of
symbols that enclose or wrap any other character literal. These character-enclosing symbols could have been
anything other than single quotation marks.
Bearing this in mind, consider the alternative quote (q) operator. The q operator enables you to choose from a
set of possible pairs of wrapping symbols for character literals as alternatives to the single quote symbols. The
options are any single-byte or multibyte character or the four brackets: (round brackets), {curly braces},
[squarebrackets], or <angle brackets>. Using the q operator, the character delimiter can effectively be changed
from a single quotation mark to any other character
The syntax of the alternative quote operator is as follows:
q’delimiter’character literal which may include the single quotes delimiter’ where delimiter can be any character
or bracket.
Alternative Quote (q) Operator
Specify your own quotation mark delimiter.
Select any delimiter.
Increase readability and usability.
SELECT department_name || q'[ Department’s Manager Id: ]’
|| manager_id
AS “Department and Manager”
FROM departments;
Alternative Quote (q) Operator
Many SQL statements use character literals in expressions or conditions. If the literal itself contains a single
quotation mark, you can use the quote (q) operator and select your own quotation mark delimiter.
You can choose any convenient delimiter, single-byte or multibyte, or any of the following character pairs: [ ], { },
( ), or < >.
In the example shown, the string contains a single quotation mark, which is normally interpreted as a delimiter
of a character string. By using the q operator, however, brackets [] are used as the quotation mark delimiters.
The string between the brackets delimiters is interpreted as a literal character string.