Are the columns, p_order and participant_order different columns? Rich Pascual
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Michael Moore <michaeljmo...@gmail.com>wrote: > SELECT SUBSTR(MAX(TO_CHAR(p_order, '00000009') || action_flag), 10) > action_flag > FROM participants > > WHERE role_ind BETWEEN 1 AND 20 > AND rpt_num = 311118; > > Mike > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Andrej Hopko <ado.ho...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> study the KEEP clause, it may work something like this: >> >> SELECT MAX(action_flag) KEEP (DENSE_RANK FIRST ORDER BY p_order DESC ) >> >> FROM participants >> WHERE rpt_num = 311118 >> AND role_ind BETWEEN 1 AND 20 >> ; >> >> I am assuming those: >> 1. p_order and participant_order you meant as same column (if not, it >> may still work but I haven't thought about this in deep) >> 2. there may be all kinds of mistakes (I didn't run the query, just >> giving you clues) >> 3. note that MAX after select isn't necessary because KEEP clause >> returns only row with highest p_order, but it is necessary due to syntax >> limitation (there need to be aggregation function if remember well - I used >> this about a year ago) >> >> all you need now is to clean up the select to correctly return data >> >> regards >> hoppo >> >> >> >> On 11. 2. 2011 8:34, gayathri Dev wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> Could you please suggest a better way of doing this? >>> SELECT action_flag >>> FROM participants >>> WHERE rpt_num = 311118 >>> AND participant_order = (SELECT MAX(p_order) >>> FROM participants >>> WHERE role_ind BETWEEN 1 AND 20 >>> AND rpt_num = 311118); >>> Thanks, >>> ~G >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to Oracle-PLSQL@googlegroups.com >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> oracle-plsql-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. >> To post to this group, send email to Oracle-PLSQL@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> oracle-plsql-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. > To post to this group, send email to Oracle-PLSQL@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > oracle-plsql-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. To post to this group, send email to Oracle-PLSQL@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oracle-plsql-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en
