RE: SQL comparison addition:

From: Chris Stephens <ChrisStephens_at_affina.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:29:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D6567.20031111102926@fatcity.com>

SQL> select sys_context('userenv','session_user'),   2 dump(sys_context('userenv','session_user')), a.reports_login,   3 dump(a.reports_login)
  4 from global.client_dim a
  5 WHERE sys_context('userenv','session_user') = a.REPORTS_LOGIN;

SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','SESSION_USER')

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DUMP(SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','SESSION_USER'))

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REPORTS_LOGIN

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DUMP(A.REPORTS_LOGIN)

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REPORTS_DELTA
Typ=1 Len=13: 82,69,80,79,82,84,83,95,68,69,76,84,65 REPORTS_DELTA
Typ=1 Len=13: 82,69,80,79,82,84,83,95,68,69,76,84,65

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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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