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SELECT Statement is Fast, INSERT INTO Using the SELECT Statement is Brutally...
December 18, 2010 (Modified December 19, 2010) (Back to the Previous Post in the Series) (Forward to the Next Post in the Series) The previous blog article in this series resulted in several...
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Row Values to Comma Separated Lists, an Overly Complicated Use Case Example
May 26, 2011 In a previous article I showed a simple method to convert values found in multiple table rows into a comma delimited list. The method works very well, until the situation in which the...
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Finding Rows with Common Attributes – Roman to Find a Solution in Something New
July 1, 1011 A recent thread in the comp.databases.oracle.server Usenet group (actually two threads) asked an interesting question. Assume that you had a detail table that contained several attributes...
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Simple SQL with and without Inline Views
October 21, 2011 (Forward to the Next Post in the Series) Sometimes it is interesting to take a step back from some of the more difficult to construct SQL statements, and just put together something...
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Matching the Expected Output – Analytic RANK, ROW_NUMBER, DENSE_RANK, or...
November 16, 2011 I noticed an interesting request on the comp.databases.oracle.misc usenet group, and I thought that I would make an attempt at solving the request. The original poster (OP) stated...
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On the Topic of Programming 3
September 3, 2012 (Back to the Previous Post in the Series) In the previous article in this series, a question was posed regarding how many SQL statements would be required to generate the following...
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Analysis Challenges
April 25, 2013 Roughly 12 years ago I was attempting to analyze customer order changes that were received through electronic document interchange (EDI), specifically X12 830 documents that show order...
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Everything or Nothing in SQL
May 23, 2013 The following question recently came through an ERP mailing list (significantly rephrased): I would like to use the Microsoft Query tool in Microsoft Excel to extract records from the ERP...
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Analysis Challenges
April 25, 2013 Roughly 12 years ago I was attempting to analyze customer order changes that were received through electronic document interchange (EDI), specifically X12 830 documents that show order...
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Everything or Nothing in SQL
May 23, 2013 The following question recently came through an ERP mailing list (significantly rephrased): I would like to use the Microsoft Query tool in Microsoft Excel to extract records from the ERP...
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