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<code>How can i extract data from flat file to oracle table
with plsql ?
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<code>Please state an example of pivot query.
I know that in cardinality I've 2 columns, so how can I show them in columnar form and I know the cardinality is 4.
Please also illustrate method of Varray and Nested Tables.
Regards
Puneet
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<code>Hi Tom,
I have a table like this
create table temp1
(f_name varchar2(100),
f_date date,
f_amount integer
);
Records in this table will be like this:
Ajay 15-JUL-02 500
Bhavani 15-JUL-02 700
Chakr...
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<code>Hi Tom,
I was wondering if there are some thing you don't like about Oracle?
I personally wish more things came setup, out of the box such as autotrace, intermedia text, scott schema etc. Any thoughts on this?
-Alex
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<code>Hi Tom,
How can I know what a given user is executing if his status is ACTIVE ? How can I know which PL/SQL blocks or SQL statements are being run by him ? As to SQL statemets, I can join v$session.user# with v$sqlarea.parsing_user_id ( am I...
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<code>How would you go about stripping special characters from a partnumber. I do not know of an Oracle function to do this. Are there any packages that do this? I want to strip everything except A-Z, a-z, 0-9.
Thanks for your help
Lisa
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<code>I would like to fetch data after joining 3 tables and
sorting based on some field. As this query results into approx
100 records, I would like to cut the result set into 4, each of
25 record. and I would like to give sequence number to ea...
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I have a table from a 3rd party application that is used to track
an order through the various manufacturing operations. A subset of
the information looks like this:
ORDER OPN STATION CLOSE_DATE
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<code>Tom:
when doing the database design , i have the following question.
let's say we have emp table which have empid,empname,deptno,
as well as empPicture, empGreeting, empFamilyPict.
since we don't use empPicture , empGreeting( which is a...
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<code>Hi Tom,
Here are the few questions on Locking.
1)How do I use v$lock to figure out lock details ? Details like
whos has locked,on which table,who else is waiting, and what type
of locking (shared or exlusive ?), since when it is lock...