{"id":3879,"date":"2024-03-13T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T07:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-modify-data-in-a-specific-column-in-oracle\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:19:06","slug":"how-to-modify-data-in-a-specific-column-in-oracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-modify-data-in-a-specific-column-in-oracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle UPDATE Column: How to Modify Table Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To update the data in a column of an Oracle database table, you can use the UPDATE statement. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p>Suppose there is a table called &#8220;employees&#8221; with columns &#8220;employee_id&#8221; and &#8220;salary&#8221;. 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