Re: Outer Join Problem . . .

move your + inside of to_char will work. In article <8f77bo$vnt$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   emaus081269_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> Having a problem with an outer join. Trying to get a count grouped by
> month from a date field on a table. Want to display 0 for months not
> included in the table. Created a temp table that holds each month to
> outer join too. But oracle does not seem to like outer joining when I
> am useing a function on the table I will be weak on. I can subquery
> this out and it works. Just want to know if anyone knows why or has a
> better solution.
>
> select m.name,
> nvl(count(t.field), 0)
> from tmp_months m,
> table t
> where m.tag = to_char(t.date, 'MM') (+)
> group by to_char(t.date, 'MM')
>
> This gets me a not properly ended message. Take out the outer join
 and
> all is well. Hmm . . .
>
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