Re: SQL comparison addition:

I may be barking up the wrong tree, but humour an old dba...

Could you try running the following and post the output?

select sys_context('userenv','session_user'), dump(sys_context('userenv','session_user')), a.reports_login, dump(a.reports_login)
from global.client_dim a
WHERE sys_context('userenv','session_user') = a.REPORTS_LOGIN;

Daniel

Chris Stephens wrote:

> I just tried:
>
> 1 SELECT count(*)
> 2 FROM global.client_dim a
> 3* WHERE sys_context('userenv','session_user') = a.REPORTS_LOGIN
> SQL> /
>
> COUNT(*)
> ----------
> 1
>
> ...but we had a problem 2 weeks ago where the comparison only worked when I
> put in the trim.
>
> ?????????
>
> 1 SELECT count(*)
> 2 FROM global.client_dim a
> 3* WHERE TRIM(sys_context('userenv','session_user'))
> =TRIM(a.REPORTS_LOGIN)
> SQL> /
>
> COUNT(*)
> ----------
> 0
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