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RE: PL/SQL Question:Eliminate duplicate rows

From: Ron Thomas <rthomas_at_hypercom.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:19:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D0868.20030919131940@fatcity.com>

Hi Tom-

Submitting to a listserve is like living in a small town. Make 1 little oops and everybody knows about it.

Do I need to look over my shoulder on the way to my car tonight??? ;)

Ron Thomas
Hypercom, Inc
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You know, I never use that exception, so I can't remember it correctly.

You are correct, of course - thanks for embarrasing me in front of thousands and thousands and thousands (how many Jared??) of people! :)

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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except your too_many_rows exception should be dup_val_on_index...

Ron Thomas
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Johann,

how about the following. what this does is, using the inner begin/end block, catches when an insert would fail because of the PK failure and ignores the error.

This is very quick and dirty - it will work fine if you are not working with a huge amount of data.

declare

cursor c1 is
  select col1, col2
   from some_table;
begin
 for c1_rec in c1 loop
  begin
    insert into new_table(col1, col2)
      values (c1_rec.col1, c1_rec.col2);     exception

      when too_many_rows then
           null;

  end;
 end loop;
end;
/

If you are talking about lots and lots of data, you could easily query the table you are inserting into, testing for the existence of the value you are attempting to insert. If you find it, skip the insert. Like this:

declare
rec_count number;
cursor c1 is
  select col1, col2
   from some_table;
begin
 for c1_rec in c1 loop
  begin
    select count(*)

     into rec_count
     from new_table
     where col1 = c1_rec.col1;  -- this assumes that col1 is the pk!
     if rec_count = 0 then
       insert into new_table(col1, col2)
        values (c1_rec.col1, c1_rec.col2);
     end if;
    exception
      when too_many_rows then
           null;

  end;
 end loop;
end;
/

Good Luck!

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Looking for an a sample cursor routine to load a PK enabled table to eliminate
any dupes from the load table.



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