Re: Searching across multiple columns

<PerlEvangelism>

my $dbh = DBI->connect(

   'dbi:Oracle:' . $db,
   $username, $password,
   { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 0 }
);

die "connect failed\n" unless $dbh;

my $sql='select * from persons;'
my $sth = dbh->prepare($sql) || die
my $rv = $sth->execute || die "error in execution\n";

while ( my $arrarRef = sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) {

   my @array = @{$arrayRef};
   if ( grep(/\s+hoser\s+/gi, @array ) ) {

      print "Hey! I found a hoser!\n";
   }
}

</PerlEvangelism>

This connected, built a cursor, read it and searched it.

Compare to how many lines of PL/SQL this would take.

Good reason to learn Perl? :)

Jared

                                                                                       
                             
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Does Oracle have a way to do a search across multiple columns/tables for specific data? I know I can issue a query with a bunch of or statements, but is there something similar to fulltext searching?

Thanks for the information,

Rick Stephenson

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