Re: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Title: Re: Corrected SQL Question... SQL select A.c1, B.c2 2 from (select col1 c1, rownum r from tbl order by col1) A 3 , (select col2 c2, rownum r from tbl order by col2) b 4 where a.r = b.r 5 union 6 select B.c2, A.c1 7 from (select col1 c1, rownum r from tbl order by col1) A 8

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
/13 Thu AM 11:19:15 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Corrected SQL Question... Okay, let me do this right this time,... (Now that I have my hot tea going;) Here is the test data: SQL select c1,c2 from cp; C1 C2 --- --- AUS DAL AUS HOU DAL

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Kirti, Can you explain the required result order? It looks random to me - or like one of the tests we were forced to take in High School. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 9:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Tom, They wanted to 'pair up' the contents from c1 and c2. Those are supposed to be 3 char Airport codes. DAL-AUS followed by AUS-DAL (or vice-versa). That's all I was told. Thanks. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Kevin Lange
Not quite random. Note that the value is field 1 of the first record is the value in field 2 in the second. It looks like they want to pair up the cities if they appear in both columns. i.e. Since Dallas is in column 1 with Austin in Column 2 in one record, and Dallas is in Column 2 with

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Corrected SQL Question... (see answer below) -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Here is the test data: SQL select c1,c2 from cp; C1 C2 --- --- AUS DAL AUS HOU DAL AUS DAL HOU DAL LIT DAL XYZ HOU AUS HOU DAL HOU LIT

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen Lee
Do mean something like this? It would be interesting to see if this could be done with some kind of tree walk. 1* select a.c1, a.c2, b.c1, b.c2 from crap a, crap b where a.c2 = b.c1 and b.c2 = a.c1 SQL / C1C2C1C2 - - - - DAL AUS AUS DAL HOU AUS AUS HOU

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Title: RE: Corrected SQL Question... Jacques, Thanks a bunch. Elegance was not one of the requirements ;) Cheers! - Kirti -Original Message-From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:53 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Cc: Deshpande

RE: a DIFFERENT sql question

2003-03-13 Thread STEVE OLLIG
ok - i came up with a solution. but in real life i have a lot of amount1's in t1 so it becomes an ugly brute force looking query. anybody have a more elegant solution? 1 select a.category 2 , (select sum(s.amount1) from t1 s where a.category = s.category) as amount1sum 3 ,

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen Lee
Questions I would have for those who wrote the requirements: Of possible combinations of the form ABC XYZ XYZ ABC, which do they want? As can be seen from the answers sent to the list, there is more than one set of responses that give this pattern. If they only want half of the possible

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
All they wanted was to pair up those city codes. DAL -- AUS followed by AUS -- DAL, AUS -- HOU followed by HOU -- AUS etc... and on separate lines. So, cross-tab did not have the right format. I sent them Jacques Kilchoer's solution (he also sent me a simplified one, without the UNION),

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen Lee
: Corrected SQL Question... All they wanted was to pair up those city codes. DAL -- AUS followed by AUS -- DAL, AUS -- HOU followed by HOU -- AUS etc... and on separate lines. So, cross-tab did not have the right format. I sent them Jacques Kilchoer's solution (he also sent me

Re: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Kirti, What about solution suggested by Stephane Faroult: select * from (select * from T connect by col1 = prior col2 and col1 col2) x where rownum = (select count(*) from T) / ? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple

Re: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
Igor Neyman wrote: Kirti, What about solution suggested by Stephane Faroult: select * from (select * from T connect by col1 = prior col2 and col1 col2) x where rownum = (select count(*) from T) / ? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Igor, I can

RE: Corrected SQL Question...

2003-03-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Corrected SQL Question... All they wanted was to pair up those city codes. DAL -- AUS followed by AUS -- DAL, AUS -- HOU followed by HOU -- AUS etc

RE: Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Tricky SQL Question Thanks Steven, I believe Tom touched on this in his discussion at recent Hotsos conference. My requirements were slightly different, but the logic is still good for me. Thanks Raj - Rajendra dot

RE: Tricky SQL Question -- Solved

2003-03-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Tricky SQL Question -- Solved Jonathan, Thanks for the tips ... let me see how I incorporate this ... things to do ... 1. write a *clever* routine to look at sys.mon_mods$ with dbms_stats.flush_database_monitoring_info to decide which tables to analyze in the next session. 2

Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-06 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Tricky SQL Question Hi all, I have a tricky situation ... I have a table columns are owner varchar2(), name varchar2(), ana_tm number ana_tm represents how much time it took to perform statistics collection for owner.name value. the number ranges from 0 to about 12000 right now

Re: Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Thinking back to university days, I think this was called the knapsack problem, and at the time there was no algorithm guaranteed to give an optimal solution. If there is no simple non-procedural algorithm - how about a strategy that simply allows each slave to take the longest task that has not

RE: Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-06 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Tricky SQL Question Thanks Jonathan, I'd like to assign the tables to a group, but need to do that periodically. Also what I do is load all tables that belong to a group in a pl/sql table (bulk updates/bulk collects). That's why I don't want to do read-from-table ... do-action

RE: Tricky SQL Question -- Solved

2003-03-06 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Tricky SQL Question -- Solved Okay, I cracked it ... if you are interested, read on ... it is not very optimal, but close to what I want. To me 8 streams is standard, so you'd see 8 as hardcoded. Also I found that select sum(obj_last_analyze_time)/8 from statistics_info

sql question ???

2003-03-06 Thread Andrea Oracle
Hi, I got a SQL question (9i on Red Hat), commands shown below. The first sql returns 3 rows with value 1, so trim(client_company) = '', how come the 2nd sql doesn't return anything?? SQL select decode(trim(client_company), '', 1, ' ', 2, null, 3, 4) from cli_clients where cli_id in (257, 396

Re: Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-06 Thread Stephane Faroult
!! -Original Message- From: Jonathan Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Tricky SQL Question Thinking back to university days, I think this was called the knapsack problem, and at the time

Re: Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Very cute - But it doesn't really cope well with a few outlying values at the top end of the range. Using double the count to invert the high/low distribution is neat - but only if the distribution is fairly smooth to start with. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming

RE: Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-06 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Tricky SQL Question Stephane, Nice ... very nice script ... it is very close to what I came up with. Thanks everyone Raj - Rajendra dot Jamadagni at espn dot com Any views expressed here are strictly personal. QOTD

RE: Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-06 Thread Steven_Galli
Raj, I may not be offering information useful in solving your specific stats problem. If that's the case, Undskyld. However, this information is certainly useful. This link to the asktom website contains a method for dividing up large tables into ranges of rowids so that multiple sessions can

Re: Tricky SQL Question -- Solved

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Very clever ! Can I make a couple of suggestions: You've got a very large number of tables in one group - and the startup time for the analyze might have a big impact on this group - so how about adding in (say) one second to the analyze type in order to cater for startup. Also - how about

Re: Tricky SQL Question

2003-03-06 Thread Stephane Faroult
Jonathan Lewis wrote: Very cute - But it doesn't really cope well with a few outlying values at the top end of the range. Using double the count to invert the high/low distribution is neat - but only if the distribution is fairly smooth to start with. Regards Jonathan Lewis

Re: sql question ???

2003-03-06 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
A ZERO length varchar is treated as NULL so your second query should be select count(*) from cli_clients where trim(client_company) is null and cli_id in (257, 396, 727); At 12:09 PM 3/6/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hi, I got a SQL question (9i on Red Hat), commands shown below. The first sql returns

SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread Rick Stephenson
OS: Solaris 2.8 Database: Oracle 9.2.0.2 Situation in chronological order Connection A: select * from table A where id = 1; Result: no rows returned -- This means I need to insert the row, as it does not exists yet. Connection B: select * from table A where id = 1; Result: no rows

Re: SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread Alan Davey
Why not just have Connection B trap the Unique Constrait Error and branch to some different code? What would Connection B have done if it had found the record where id=1? -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 718-482-4200 x106 On 2/24/2003 2:49 PM, Rick Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS:

RE: SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rick - What about selecting the primary key for your table from a sequence? Oracle will ensure each session receives a unique number. What is your overall goal? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 24,

Re: SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
Stephenson To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:49 AM Subject: SQL question OS: Solaris 2.8 Database: Oracle 9.2.0.2 Situation in chronological order Connection A: select * from table A where id = 1; Result: no rows returned

RE: SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread Rick Stephenson
Sorry, I guess I could have been a little more clear. Another example: Table Employee: Emp_id number primary key -- generated with a sequence Emp_name varchar2(20) unique Table Employee_log: Emp_id number primary key Time_stamp date primary key Emp_stats varchar2(50) A

Re: SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
Rick Stephenson wrote: Sorry, I guess I could have been a little more clear. Another example: Table Employee: Emp_id number primary key -- generated with a sequence Emp_name varchar2(20) unique Table Employee_log: Emp_id number primary key Time_stamp date primary

Re: SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
Try to separate the employee-lookup-and-create into separate procedure. In the procedure, if the lookup does not find the employee, then call another procedure with an autonomous transaction to create the employee, that way the employee creation does not become part of the master transaction, is

RE: SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread Richard Huntley
Title: RE: SQL question Just trap the error and ignore it or add some other code for that particular situation, i.e. BEGIN INSERT INTO A VALUES (1); EXCEPTION WHEN DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX THEN -- account already exists NULL; END; -Original Message- From: Rick Stephenson [mailto

sql question -- distinct, group by and order by

2003-02-07 Thread Guang Mei
Hi: I have a basic sql question about sql. I have the follwing four sqls and I am wondering why #3 costs less than #4 in explain plan. #1 and #2 cost the same. How is distinctand group by treated internally by Oracle? Is #3 a better optimized sql than #4? TIA. Guang Mei 1. select

Re: sql question -- distinct, group by and order by

2003-02-07 Thread Stephane Faroult
Guang Mei wrote: Hi: I have a basic sql question about sql. I have the follwing four sqls and I am wondering why #3 costs less than #4 in explain plan. #1 and #2 cost the same. How is distinctand group by treated internally by Oracle? Is #3 a better optimized sql than #4? TIA

RE: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Charu Joshi
Thanks all, My question was related more to the 'design' of SQL language. To my mind the expression COUNT(DISTINCT a,b) looked a natural extension of the syntax COUNT(DISTINCT a). Even COUNT(DISTINCT(a,b)) would look good enough to me. Probably it's too trivial a thing to bother about. Using the

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Jared Still
Vladimir, Thanks I hadn't considered || as a function, though it is. At first, I was going to take your word for it, but then decided this would be an interesting test. :) But first, I agree, you must know what you're looking for, neither of these would work in all situations. First, I built

RE: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread sundeep maini
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ( SELECT DISTINCT col1, col2. FROM ..) --- Charu Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all, My question was related more to the 'design' of SQL language. To my mind the expression COUNT(DISTINCT a,b) looked a natural extension of the syntax

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Vladimir Begun
Jared Jared Still wrote: Though not a dramatic difference, the CONCAT was faster and less resource intensive than the inline view with GROUP BY. :) Ok, let it be like that, but your test does not check some other things, like common sense, logic, and session memory. Performance can vary as I

RE: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Khedr, Waleed
What about: select count(count(*)) from emp group by ename, job Have fun :) Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jared Jared Still wrote: Though not a dramatic difference, the CONCAT was faster and less

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Vladimir Begun
Jared Windows 2k 9.2.0.1 534 hsecs 214 hsecs Query I've used: SELECT COUNT( DISTINCT( RPAD(NVL(ename, ' '), 30 + NVL2(ename, 0, 1)) || RPAD(NVL( job, ' '), 30 + NVL2( job, 0, 1)) || NVL(TO_CHAR(mydate, 'DDMMHH24MISS'), '*NULL*') ) )

RE: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
: SQL question What about: select count(count(*)) from emp group by ename, job Have fun :) Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jared Jared Still wrote: Though not a dramatic difference, the CONCAT was faster

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
Ok, let it be like that, but your test does not check some other things, like common sense, logic, and session memory. Performance can vary as I mentioned sometimes can be neglected, however let's consider the tricks you made before your test: Well, I've never claimed to be common. And I

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
] cc: Subject:Re: SQL question Jared Windows 2k 9.2.0.1 534 hsecs 214 hsecs Query I've used: SELECT COUNT( DISTINCT( RPAD(NVL(ename, ' '), 30 + NVL2(ename, 0, 1)) || RPAD(NVL( job, ' '), 30 + NVL2( job, 0, 1)) || NVL(TO_CHAR

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Vladimir Begun
Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . never trust Vladimir Begun, check everything what he's saying :) Trust? I don't know you well enough to not trust you. May be 'trust' is not a right word here :) Sorry. . never use the sql that looks cool but does not work properly . never tune a query that

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Vladimir Begun
Looks like you are a master of telepathy too... :) Khedr, Waleed wrote: What about: select count(count(*)) from emp group by ename, job Have fun :) We do... :) -- Vladimir Begun The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . never trust Vladimir Begun, check everything what he's saying :) Trust? I don't know you well enough to not trust you. May be 'trust' is not a right word here :) Sorry. Mine was supposed to have a :). Sorry. . never use the sql that looks cool but does not

SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Charu Joshi
Hello Listers, How to find out the COUNT of DISTINCT values of multiple columns? For eg. SQL SELECT DISTINCT ename FROM emp; -- This works. SQL SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ename) FROM emp; -- So does this. SQL SELECT DISTINCT ename, job FROM emp; -- And this too. SQL SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ename,

RE: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Fink, Dan
Charu, The COUNT() function requires a single expression. ename, job is not a valid expression. ename||job is a valid expression since it will return a single value. Another alternative would be select count(*) from (select distinct ename, job from emp); Dan Fink -Original

RE: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: SQL question Joshi, SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT count(*) FROM flight_legs GROUP BY d_actual_time, event_type); SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT d_actual_time, event_type FROM flight_legs ); The first one took about 37 seconds in returning a count of 357331

Re: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Rachna Vaidya
And, can you have two columns as arguements for COUNT? I guess its either one column or rows +Rachna - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:19 PM Hello Listers, How to find out the COUNT of DISTINCT

RE: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: SQL question Elegant or not, here's how I'd do it select count(*) from (select distinct ename, job from emp); -Original Message- From: Charu Joshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject

RE: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: SQL question The non-working code in your example should be select count(*) from (select distinct ename,job from emp) / It appears that cound takes only one parameter ... not two. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc

Re: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Jared . Still
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:SQL question Hello Listers, How to find out the COUNT of DISTINCT values of multiple columns? For eg. SQL SELECT DISTINCT ename FROM emp; -- This works. SQL SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ename) FROM emp

Re: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Vladimir Begun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can do a COUNT(DISTINCT ename || job), but that doesn't seem to be elegant way of doing it. elegant = simple, concise, easy to understand. Looks elegant to me. Jared, it just looks that that... CONCAT = || yet another function call, yet another piece of code,

SQL Question

2003-01-28 Thread Henrik Ekenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, My brain is slow today Can someone help me ? I can do : select idu+1 from user_group_members where fk_user in(44541,41402,41813) ; IDU+1 -- 41411 41821 44546 But I can't do : select 'insert into XXX (IDU,PEN_ID,LAST_ACCESS,FK_APPLICATION) values ('||IDU + 1

RE: SQL Question

2003-01-28 Thread Naveen Nahata
Try select 'insert into XXX (IDU,PEN_ID,LAST_ACCESS,FK_APPLICATION) values ('||(IDU + 1)||','||PEN_ID||',sysdate,'||FK_APPLICATION||');' from app_users where pen_id in (44541,41402,41813); -Original Message-From: Henrik Ekenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent:

SV: SQL Question

2003-01-28 Thread Johan Malmberg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Fran: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]For Henrik Ekenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 28 januari 2003 07:44 Till: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Amne: SQL Question Hi, My brain is slow today Can someone help me ? I can do

RE: SQL Question

2003-01-28 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
select 'insert into XXX (IDU,PEN_ID,LAST_ACCESS,FK_APPLICATION) values ('||(IDU + 1 )||','||PEN_ID||',sysdate,'||FK_APPLICATION||');' from app_users where pen_id in (44541,41402,41813) ; IDU + 1 must be replaced by (IDU + 1). HTH. Nirmal., -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 28,

Re: SQL Question

2003-01-28 Thread Dmitrii CRETU
try this ((IDU + 1)): select 'insert into XXX (IDU,PEN_ID,LAST_ACCESS,FK_APPLICATION) values (' || (IDU + 1) ||','||PEN_ID||',sysdate,'||FK_APPLICATION||');' from app_users where pen_id in (44541,41402,41813) ; HEheac Hi, HEheac My brain is slow today Can someone help me ? HEheac I can do

Re: SQL Question

2003-01-28 Thread Tim Gorman
The first query says where FK_USER in (44541,41402,41813) and the second query says where PEN_ID in (44541,41402,41813)... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:43 PM Hi, My brain is slow today Can

Re: SV: SQL Question

2003-01-28 Thread Henrik Ekenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
meddelande- -!- Fran: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]For Henrik Ekenberg -!- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -!- Skickat: den 28 januari 2003 07:44 -!- Till: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L -!- Amne: SQL Question -!- -!- -!- Hi, -!- -!- My brain is slow today Can someone help me ? -!- -!- I

RE: Re: SQL Question

2003-01-28 Thread Stephane Faroult
The first query also says 'from user_group_members' and the second one 'from app_users' ... I am not sure that the comparison is anything but confusing ... Looks like the implicitly converted varchar2() column which contains '***', 'N/A' or the like ... The first query says where FK_USER in

RE: Win2k/8.1.7/SQL Question

2003-01-16 Thread Adrian Roe
Title: RE: Win2k/8.1.7/SQL Question Have a look at the SQL Referenceguide in the 8i docs. It says that 8i is broadly compatible with the ANSI SQL-99 Core specification, that explains why the SQL listed below works with 8i. Ade -Original Message-From: Vergara, Michael (TEM) [mailto

RE: Win2k/8.1.7/SQL Question

2003-01-15 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Title: RE: Win2k/8.1.7/SQL Question I looked at our copy of the 9i Docs, and did some hunting around on the web, and this code definitely looks like 9i SQL. However, the Siebel instance is 8.1.7.3 (or 4...I don't exactly remember). How can they be running this SQL? Thanks, Mike

Win2k/8.1.7/SQL Question

2003-01-14 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
My European customers are trying to optimize some SQL that is used in their Siebel implementation. It uses a syntax that I am unfamiliar with. The SQL looks like: SELECT ... FROM SIEBEL.S_PARTY T1 INNER JOIN SIEBEL.S_ORG_EXT T2 ON T1.ROW_ID = T2.PAR_ROW_ID INNER JOIN

RE: Win2k/8.1.7/SQL Question

2003-01-14 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Win2k/8.1.7/SQL Question Well that looks like ANSI compatible SQL that should run under Oracle9i. Take a look and the 9i docs to develop a strategy for the retrofit. This is so weird for me... having to unlearn Oracle syntax in order to write ANSI SQL. Sigh... -Original

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-07 Thread Markus Reger
in case this is a windog machine - install kind of unix shell. and the unix style commands work perfectly - just tried it. either use unix tools for windog or cygwin from rh. or dump the w... have fun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/03/03 18:40 PM Hi everyone, This may be a stupid question. If so

Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Hi everyone, This may be a stupid question. If so please humor me with a stupid answer. However: I FINALLY have the fun fun fun chance to change one of my data loads to use the DBI instead of the procedures I hacked together

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Jared . Still
: Subject:Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Hi everyone, This may be a stupid question. If so please humor me with a stupid answer. However: I FINALLY have the fun fun fun chance to change one of my data loads to use the DBI instead of the procedures I hacked together

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Tim Bunce
Try dbish dbi:Oracle:tnsname commands.sql The dbish is a DBI shell supplied with the DBI. The version supplied with the DBI is functional but basic. Tom Lowery is working on an extended version with plugins adding more functionality. One of his goals is an SQL*Plus clone...

RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Jared, thanks for your reply. One last question: Is SPOOL one of the commands that DBI does not understand? I would need to capture any errors spit out by sql*plus (like my famous ora-1410 error). I have a feeling the answer is yes

RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... I think I just answered my own question after reading through Charlie's example code... The errors that would be spit to the screen would be returned in $DBI::errstr. Lisa -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa Sent

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Alex
What do you have so far. You can read in a script like so... #perl dbicode.pl script.sql while (STDIN) { chomp; $sql .= $_; } print $sql; On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Koivu, Lisa wrote: Hi everyone, This may be a stupid question. If so please humor me with a stupid answer. However: I

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Philip Douglass
Title: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Hi Lisa, It's been awhile since I've used Perl DBI, but from what you said, I think you're mixing up two different ideas. Ksh doesn't know how to talk to a database, so you just use it to invoke sqlplus, which handles the database

RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Muchas Gracias Tim! bowing deeply I can't thank you enough. I will play with it, it looks like it may meet my needs. Lisa -Original Message- From: Tim Bunce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:09 PM

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-16 Thread Stephane Paquette
Thanks for the where clause and to all who respond, I'll check into fine grained access control (dbms_rls). --- Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Add this to where clause: group decode(user,'typical',380,-100) Instead of -100 use any number not used by the groups. Also read

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-15 Thread Mark Richard
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SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi, We have a lot of views. Now the users have a new requirement, only the user 'admin' can see all the data from the views. The user 'typical' must see all data except the one from group 380. A basic solution is to create 2 sets of views with one set having a group number 380. I'm looking for

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2002-12-13 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in OLS -- Oracle Label Security... I think that's the key you are looking for. -Original Message- From: Stephane Paquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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2002-12-13 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Add this to where clause: group decode(user,'typical',380,-100) Instead of -100 use any number not used by the groups. Also read about contexts and grain level security. Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 2:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi,

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2002-12-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in Hi Stephane, This may be more effort but have you considered having a security table to join to in the one view, instead of two views? Multiple views can really hose the optimizer, as I am sure you know. However adding a table

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2002-12-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in dbms_rls is cheaper to use ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN

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2002-12-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in Has anyone used context and fine-grained security? I seem to remember the performance hit was not minimal when using this functionality. -Original Message- From: Khedr, Waleed [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13

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Sql question : use of SUBSTR/INSTR functions

2002-10-16 Thread Johan Muller
Help! Anybody have a quick and dirty to parse the 4 octets of a typical IP address into 4 separate values. I will insert these into a table where database checks may verify that the data is in fact a number and also part of a valid ip range (the second thru fourth octets cannot be higher than

RE: Sql question : use of SUBSTR/INSTR functions

2002-10-16 Thread Fink, Dan
Try this. It uses the INSTR function to determine the start and end of the SUBSTR. 1 select substr('333.22.1.000',1,instr('333.22.1.000','.')-1) octet1, 2 substr('333.22.1.000', 3(instr('333.22.1.000','.',1,1) + 1), 4(instr('333.22.1.000','.',1,2)

Re: Sql question : use of SUBSTR/INSTR functions

2002-10-16 Thread Alan Davey
Hi Johan, Try this: SELECT SUBSTR('127.0.0.1',1,INSTR('127.0.0.1','.')-1) ,SUBSTR('127.0.0.1',INSTR('127.0.0.1','.')+1,INSTR('127.0.0.1','.',1,2)-(INSTR('127.0.0.1','.')+1)) ,SUBSTR('127.0.0.1',INSTR('127.0.0.1','.',1,2)+1,INSTR('127.0.0.1','.',1,3)-(INSTR('127.0.0.1','.',1,2)+1))

RE: Sql question : use of SUBSTR/INSTR functions

2002-10-16 Thread Sherman, Paul R.
Hello, Try this (take a hard look first, as I cranked this out quickly while doing other things): substr(ip_addr,1,instr(ip_addr,'.',1,1)-1 get 1st octet substr(ip_addr,1,instr(ip_addr,'.',instr(ip_addr,'.',1,1)+1,1)-1 get 2nd octet

RE: Sql question : use of SUBSTR/INSTR functions

2002-10-16 Thread Mirsky, Greg
Anybody have a quick and dirty to parse the 4 octets of a typical IP address How about this... FUNCTION f_ip_to_number ( p_ipNVARCHAR2 ) RETURN NUMBER IS v_ip_segment1 NUMBER := SUBSTR (p_ip, 1, INSTR

SQL question

2002-09-23 Thread Steven Haas
Good morning list, Environment HP-UX 11.0 Oracle 8.1.6 Can anyone help with this SQL. I can get a result set of values from a table that match a given list of values - select code from table where code in ('A','B','C','D','E') I can get a result set of values from a table that do not match a

RE: SQL question

2002-09-23 Thread Fink, Dan
It is a little awkward, but a union in an inline query may do the trick: 1 select a.code 2 from (select '10' code from dual union 3select '20' code from dual union 4select '30' code from dual union 5select '40' code from dual union 6select '50' code

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2002-09-23 Thread Fink, Dan
-Original Message- From: Steven Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: SQL question Good morning list, Environment HP-UX 11.0 Oracle 8.1.6 Can anyone help with this SQL. I can get a result set

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2002-09-23 Thread Nicoll, Iain \(Calanais\)
If the set of values is not too big and fixed you could do the minus using dual e.g. (select 'A' from dual union select 'B' from dual union ... select 'Z' from dual) minus select code from table -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 5:28 PM To: Multiple

RE: SQL question

2002-09-23 Thread Steven Haas
Message- From: Steven Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: SQL question Good morning list, Environment HP-UX 11.0 Oracle 8.1.6 Can anyone help with this SQL. I can get a result set of values

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2002-09-23 Thread Steven Haas
files of the possible values? This would require O/S level privs. -Original Message- From: Steven Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: SQL question Dan (and Charlie), Thanks. Good

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