Where clause with a combination of And and Or statements - Basic question

Hi,
I have a where clause with a combination of And and Or statements... May I know which one would run first
Here is the sample
WHERE SITE_NAME = 'Q' AND ET_NAME IN ('12', '15') AND TEST_DATE > DATE OR SITE_NAME = 'E' AND ET_NAME IN ('19', '20')
can you please explain how this combination works
Thanks in advance

Hi,
This reminds me of a great story. It's so good, it probably didn't really happen, but it's so good, I'm going to repeat it anyway.
IBM once had an "executive apptitude test" that they would give to job applicants. There were some questions you might call general knowlege or trivia questions, and each question had a weight (for example, answering an unimportant queestion might score one point, an important question might be 5 points.) One of the questions was "What is the standard width of a mobile home?", and the weight of the question was -20: answering the question correctly did serious harm to your score. The reasoning was that the more you knew about mobile homes, the less likely you were to be their kind of executive.
Now, as to your question, the correct answer is: I don't know. I don't want to know. Mixing ANDs and ORs without grouping them in parentheses is a really bad idea. Even if you get it right, it's going to confuse the next person who has to look at that code. Use parentheses to make sure the code is doing what you want it to do.
If you really want to find out, it's documented in the SQL language manual. Look up "Operators, prcedence"
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e26088/operators001.htm#sthref815
You can easily do an experiment, using scott.emp, or even dual, where
WHERE  (x AND y)
OR      zproduces different results from
WHERE   x
AND     (y OR z)

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