SQL & PL/SQL :: Double Quotes In Column Name Can Be Replaced With Alternate Character?
Feb 14, 2012
Any way to replace the Double Quotes used to enclose column names with an alternative character. This is the SQL I have now that Works!
select (case when CUST is null then "/BIC/Z_SUPPLNT" else NM1 end) CMPNTSUPSRCE
from TBL1, TBL2
where "/BIC/Z_MAJVEND"=CUST(+) and Material = '1ABCD456'
order by Material
But would like to do something along these lines below but keep getting error "ORA-00936: missing expression".
select (case when CUST is null then chr(34)||/BIC/Z_SUPPLNT||chr(34) else NM1 end) CMPNTSUPSRCE
from TBL1, TBL2
where chr(34)||/BIC/Z_MAJVEND||chr(34)=CUST(+) and Material = '1ABCD456'
order by Material
I am loading .csv file into Oracle using sql loader file has strings, and numberics, Strings are surrounded by double quotes(") and field terminated by comma(,)
load data BADFILE '/var/opt/app/bad/filename' DISCARDFILE '/var/opt/app/discard/filename' append into table source_file FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS
Some time String fields may have double quotes in it, at that time it is rejecting the records. how to handle those records to load into table.
I am having a similar problem like above ONLY in UNIX box where my datafile is delimited by "|". The last field is ITM_CMNT declared as VARCHAR2(60) in Oracle. When I have exactly 60bytes in the last field it rejects the record saying actual 61 and max allowed is 60. If i reduce it to < 60bytes then it is stored as a value enclosed with double quotes. The enclosing double quote is on the next line.
"PROC,RAM,FLPY,HD,ACT MTX CLR DSP,D/PCMCIA,TRKBAL,LIT ION BA"
Expected: the one below is exactly 60bytes.
PROC,RAM,FLPY,HD,ACT MTX CLR DSP,D/PCMCIA,TRKBAL,LIT ION BAT LOAD DATA INFILE * INTO TABLE TMPTLI_LAWSON_ITM_MST TRUNCATE FIELDS TERMINATED BY "|" (ITM_NO, HAZ_MAT_CD, ITM_SHRT_DS, ITM_SON "TRIM(:ITM_SON)", ADDED_DT DATE "YYYY-MM-DD", AVL_CD , ITM_CST_AMT, ITM_SLL_AMT, EXCHG_PRC_AMT , ITM_UOM "TRIM(:ITM_UOM)", PCK_QTY INTEGER EXTERNAL, SPC_HNDL_CD "TRIM(:SPC_HNDL_CD)", EFF_DT DATE "YYYY-MM-DD", ITM_CMNT "TRIM(:ITM_CMNT)")
I have oracle 10g database running on Sun Solaris. My database character set is AL32UTF8. Our user wants to store a double byte character and an image, I want to know what the column type should be using for these.
We have a table with an nvarchar column that we use to store product descriptions.
This field is maintained on a web form created with the htp package.
Whenever a special character is used (ie, the copyright symbol, trademark, etc), the value is stored correctly in the DB. I've verified this because if i query the value in sql developer, i do see the correct symbol.
However, pulling this piece of data out to display in a formtext box (for edit) replaces all the special characters with ?'s.
Our National Character Set value is set to UTF-8.
Is this being caused by our database character set? or is it a web design problem that i'm just not aware of.
I can post code snippets if this isn't enough info...but I was hoping it'd be fairly simple.
how do we know database character set is either single character set or multi character set?
While changing character-set from AL32UTF8 to WE8MSWIN1252 got "ORA-12712: new character set must be a superset of old character set".
Below are steps taken to resolve the issue -
ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET WE8MSWIN1252;
i got this error: ORA-12712: new character set must be a superset of old character set
below are the commands executed by me:
SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE; SQL> CONNECT SYS/password AS SYSDBA; SQL> STARTUP MOUNT; SQL> ALTER SYSTEM ENABLE RESTRICTED SESSION; SQL> ALTER DATABASE OPEN; SQL> ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET INTERNAL_USE WE8MSWIN1252; SQL> SHUTDOWN; SQL> STARTUP; SQL> QUIT;
And its working...
I have not done it in proper order. Neither have done ccsscan. Still, no user reported any issues. Do my changes truncated the data?
Still today user can enter any special character value in stud_name like L'Pradhan . I want to put a restriction on stud_name so that user can enter only alphabetical value into stud_name column.
how to retrive alternate records from the table in the answer table the first row wil be in upper case and the second row wil be in lower case ...like wise wat is the querry
When we try to query a column from a table the output is shown as "?????". Seems the data in that column is stored in a different character set, which is not recognised while displaying the output. The column size is 35byte.
The nls parameter table shows the character set as "we8mswin1252".
Can a table conatin composite Alternate key which is not unique for each record in that table i.e combination of these columns have unique values which are repeated for one or more rows in that table.
One of our client is using Oracle DB 10.2 with customize applications. They have 5 schemas (one for each module). In their Head Office they are utilizing 4 schemas and remaining one is being utilized on company site based in another city. Due to internet connectivity issue they don't have VPN available so they export schema dump file (imp/exp) on daily basis from that server, transfer it using FTP then import it on Production Server (in Head Office) on daily basis.
Now they are looking for an alternate because the schema size is getting larger day by day and due to internet connectivity issue they face lots of problems while transferring the file.
I have a Problem regarding Data Replication, I am using Standard Version of Oracle 9i,I am having 5 remote servers , I am replicating the data from all of these servers using Materialized views on a Centralized server , I have created 5 schema for them, there is a application which is Consolidating the Data from all the locations.
When I create materialized views from these Materialized views I am facing problems to Fast refresh them as I am using "Union All" to combine data of all Users (Error is ora -12004) . I would like to know that is there any other way to do this, also I have tried all the ways to solve the problem of Ora-12004.
Am tring to export a data from oracle forms to excel. I use ole2 option. it is working perfectly in my desktop. But when i move the same to our application server, it is not working. I belive OLE is related to Microsoft office and our server is unix based.
When we use the AUTOTRACE / EXPLAIN PLAN we can see the (estimated) best execution plan the Optimizer found for our SQL Command. Is there a way to display all alternate execution plans the Optimizer has considered ?
The requirement is I have to get the details of all data of previous Active cycle(status A) when the Item became disabled(status = D) for Input date.
In above case,since for Item P1 and on cycle date 04-Nov-12,status is D,I have to consider the previous active cycle which is 03-Nov-12. Based on above std date,the data is queried from another table to get all the Items. Item P2 should not be considered in above case.
Below is the code which I have written which considers the rundate as Input parameter.
-- To get the Items disabled for Input date with Itemdisabled as ( select item,stddate maxcycledate from Item_tbl where rundate = stddate
[code]....
In above case,I'm querying the Item_tbl twice once for getting the disabled Items and once for getting the Previous cycle which is active.
Is there any way to query above only once and get the required results using Lag/Lead functions etc.
I am reading Section 4-8 (page 42/216) in the Oracle Database 2-day Developer Guide from here:
[Code]....
It reads:
Suppose that you want to select every employee whose last name has a double vowel(two adjacent occurrences of the same vowel).
Example 4.9 shows how you can do this.
The regular expression ([AEIOU]) represents any vowel. The metacharacter 1 represents the first (and in this case, only) regular expression. The third function parameter, 'i', specifies that the match is case-insensitive.
Example 4.9 Selecting All Employees Whose Last Names Have Double Vowels
SELECT FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(LAST_NAME, '([AEIOU])1', 'i');
Result is similar to:
FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME -------------------- ------------------------- Harrison Bloom Lex De Haan Kevin Feeney Ki Gee Nancy Greenberg Danielle Greene Alexander Khoo David Lee
8 rows selected.
I don't understand how [AEIOU])1 would find a double vowel(two adjacent occurrences of the same vowel).
i'm trying to read a text file into an oracel table. I'm having issues with this statement FIELDS TERMINATED BY ' ' fields are separated by 2 spaces. How ever Oracle is not recognizing ' ' or " " as double space. It is treating as one space thus shifting all coulmns.
I have a situation where I want to configure primary database (11.2) with 2 remote destinations. dest_2 is the default and points to a standby on host_2. However, I also want the primary db to continue transporting redo to dest_3 on node_3 when node_2 is taken down (planned or unplanned).
1) Configure the ALTERNATE attribute of dest_2 to point to dest_3.
2) Configure tnsnames client-side failover on primary host to point to 2 nodes (node_2 and node_3).
Here is a sample function which takes in a string of CSV fields and prints the third field :
create or replace function restr(istr varchar2) return INTEGER is var_1 varchar2(30); begin dbms_output.put_line('input:'||istr); select regexp_substr(',' || istr,1,3,null,1) into var_1 from dual;
[Code]..
When I pass an input string as :
JOHN,MARY,O'DONNEL,O'CONNELLY,MARK
with quotes/apostrophe in it to the function then it prints the input string in the first dbms_output but errors out at the select with ORA-01760.
how we can use the quote/apostrophe character here ?
In the code segment below (hope it appears right) I can understand the use of single quotes in the first two examples but in the third example below I had to use double quotes around the word - Today's - and I not sure I understand why?! I'm aware of the rules ...If you want a single quote to appear in the middle of a string add another single quote to it.If you want a single quote to appear at the beginning or end of a string add 2 single quotes to it.If you want a single quote to appear on its own add 3 single quotes to it.
SQL> select 'This isn''t' from dual; 'THISISN'' ---------- This isn't SQL> select to_number('34@456#789', '999G999D999', 'nls_numeric_characters=''#@'' ') from dual; TO_NUMBER('34@456#789','999G999D999','NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS=''#@''') --------------------------------------------------------------------- 34456.789 SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'fm"Today''s" ddth Month YYYY') from dual; TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'FM"TODAY''S"DDTHMONTHYYYY') ------------------------------------------------------ Today's 16th August 2013
In the ideal world each subcategory of a single category would have unique sequence so if there are 3 subcategory for the same category then each of them would have 1,2,3 in sequence, if there are 5 subcategories then 1,2,3,4,5 for each of them etc.
Problem I'm facing is that some of the subcategories sequences for the same category has the same values . For instance for 4 subcategories of the same category, each of them has 1 (1,1,1,1) in a sequence.
So ideal world is :
Insert into Category values (123 ,'Category1'); Insert into Category values (234 ,'Category2'); Insert into Category values (345 ,'Category3'); Insert into Category values (456 ,'Category4'); Insert into Category values (567 ,'Category5'); Insert into Sub_Category values (1,123,1); Insert into Sub_Category values (2,123,2); Insert into Sub_Category values (3,123,3);
But I've also bad rows like this:
Insert into Sub_Category values (4,234,1); Insert into Sub_Category values (5,234,1); Insert into Sub_Category values (6,234,1); Insert into Sub_Category values (7,345,1); Insert into Sub_Category values (8,345,1); [code].....
Fix for this and my goal is to select all such cases where subcases have mixed up sequences as above and give them randomly numbers starting from 1. So if there are 3 subcategories like for CATEGORY 2 then just apply random number to the sequence of the subCATEGORIES like 1,2,3. For CATEGORY 3 : 1,2,3 to 7.
I was thinking to write two procedures one selecting all the categories and passing category ID to the other procedure that would actually update sequence, like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE SCHEMA.SELECT_CATEGORY IS CURSOR c1 IS select category_ID from category where ...; BEGIN FOR a IN c1 LOOP UPDATE_SUBCATEGORY(a.Category_id); COMMIT; END LOOP; END; /
And the actual procedure updating subcategory:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE SCHEMA.UPDATE_SUBCATEGORY BEGIN ............ END; /
write PROCEDURE SCHEMA.SELECT_CATEGORY cursor to not miss any of the categories ID having mixed up subcategory. There can be any of the doubled sequences like doubled 1 value (this is majority) but there can be any other doubles (or at least I need to make sure that there aren't any other doubles 2 values or 3 values in sequence etc.)
And how to write SCHEMA.UPDATE_SUBCATEGORY to loop through rows of subcategory and update sequence with values starting from 1 ?
