Re: Interesting Insert?

yliu_at_creighton.edu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a SQL command file, in my file, first I create a temp table using
> Create table temp (company_no number(2),
> dept varchar2(4),
> ......)
>then I inserted into this temp table using
> Insert into temp select unique ....
> from my another table,
>then I do reporting based on the temp table.
>While I was watching the command file run, after the insert, it told me
>that 52 rows created. However, when I select count(*) from temp table,
>there are 104 rows in there. I was puzzled, so I tried this three time,
>every time using different selection criteria in my where clause in the
>INSERT statement above, every time the temp table seem to have twice as
>many rows as the rows said being created by the insert statement. And the
>rows in the temp table are dupped up! I was wondering if this ever
>happened to some body else. I could not figure out why it does this. Could
>somebody give me some advice?
>
>Thank you very much for your time.
>
>Yongge
>yliu_at_creighton.edu
>

two things: first, keep "create table" scripts separate from "insert into" scripts; second, if you have "insert into ...;" then a / on the last line, sqlplus will execute the insert twice.
good luck
paulo

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Paulo Rodrigues
OGMA SA
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