SET is the ANSI standard for variable assignment, SELECT is not. SET can only assign one variable at a time, SELECT can make multiple assignments at once. If assigning from a query, SET can only assign a scalar value. If the query returns multiple values/rows then SET will raise an error. SELECT will assign one of the values to the variable and hide the fact that multiple values were returned (so you'd likely never know why something was going wrong elsewhere - have fun troubleshooting that one) When assigning from a query if there is no value returned then SET will assign NULL, where SELECT will not make the assignment at all (so the variable will not be changed from it's previous value) As far as speed differences - there are no direct differences between SET and SELECT. However SELECT's ability to make multiple assignments in one shot does give it a slight speed advantage over SET.

SELECT is used for retrieve all the data from the table. SET is a local variable used for assigning particular value to the variable.

select is used to retrieve data and set is used to update any existing records in tables of database

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in Oracle select statement is used to retrieve all rows or any particular row but set operator is used for multiple select statement like union ,union all , intersection,minus. ....

Select is used to fetch records where set is used in update command

SET is the ANSI standard way of assigning values to variables, and SELECT is not. But you can use SELECT to assign values to more than one variable at a time. SET allows you to assign data to only one variable at a time. So that in performance is where SELECT will be a winner.