Re: SQL comparison addition:

Hmmm... I was expecting to see something like Yong writes about. The only suggestion I have is to use DUMP() the next time this happens and figure out where the two strings differ.

Daniel

Chris Stephens wrote:

> 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')
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> DUMP(SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','SESSION_USER'))
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> REPORTS_LOGIN
> ------------------------------
> DUMP(A.REPORTS_LOGIN)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> 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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