Re: How to select only columns having values..

I assume you need these populated rows at execution time. This is just a thought, but if statistics are up-to-date on the table then perhaps checking the user_tab_columns for the num_nulls column compared against the total number of rows (user_tables.num_rows) might help you. The point being, you query meta data that is less costly than the actual table. I might be wrong, but it's just an idea.

Either way, it doesn't seem you can avoid a complicated SQL statement.

Cheers,
Maaz

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Ric Van Dyke <ric.van.dyke_at_hotsos.com>wrote:

> Offhand this certainly has the sound of some very bad data modeling but
> that likely is beyond your control. Is this some sort of "generic table"?
> If so that will just lead to problems and you're only just starting to have
> them. Simply put, this table breaks just about every rule of relational
> theory and hence is not going to perform well no matter what you do.
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> It seems to me the "best" thing would be just select the whole row(s) and
> then have the application dissect the row(s) and pull out where there is
> data and where there isn't. Creating the dynamic SQL as you do works, but
> will always be slow. Getting the entire row and then parsing thru it to
> find data is likely going to be faster.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Raja Kannan Sengoden
> *Sent:* Monday, February 17, 2014 2:36 AM
> *To:* Chitale, Hemant K
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> *Cc:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* RE: How to select only columns having values..
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> Thank a lot Hemant K Chitale.
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> As per the real scenario, all the columns will have the value.
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> But for the particular condition, only limited columns will have value.
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> At this time, I don't want to do analyze the data and maintain.
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> Hence I requested, is there any simple way..
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> Attached query helped me to get the expected result.
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> Thanks to Tony who helped me to get the expected result.
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> Thanks & Regards,
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> *From:* Chitale, Hemant K [mailto:Hemant-K.Chitale_at_sc.com<Hemant-K.Chitale_at_sc.com>]
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> *Sent:* Monday, February 17, 2014 3:12 PM
> *To:* Raja Kannan Sengoden
> *Cc:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* RE: How to select only columns having values..
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> > If I don't know exactly, Is there any way to select only those 10
> columns?
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> Without actually querying the table, you cannot identify the 10 columns.
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> You could periodically query the table for all the rows and identify
> columns with NOT NULL values and then maintain a list of such columns as
> "meta data". However, there is no guarantee that a column that had NULL
> values for all 1000 rows yesterday or even a minute ago still has NULL
> values because there might have been an INSERT or UPDATE that set one row's
> value to a non-NULL.
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> How do you know that the 190 columns have NULL values ?
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> mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Raja Kannan Sengoden
> *Sent:* Monday, February 17, 2014 12:38 PM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* How to select only columns having values..
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> Dear Experts,
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> I have a table with 200 columns and having above 1000 Records.
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> But for a particular where clause, there is only 3 records fetched.
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> As the table having 200 columns, but the particular 3 record having only
> 10 columns with some value, and 190 columns having null value.
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> If I am sure, which columns I want or which column having value, then I
> can select only those columns.
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> If I don't know exactly, Is there any way to select only those 10 columns?
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> If I get the data like this, It will save few minutes for the data
> arrangement.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Raja.
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