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Re: Tricky SQL even possible?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:55:15 -0700
Message-ID: <1123552507.266740@yasure>


michaeljc70_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> Basically, I've simplified down what I need from a much larger problem.
> I don't even know if this is possible. What I need is to be able to
> create a select that will look at a VARCHAR2 field (call it text_field)
> and generate a row for every 5 characters in that column. In other
> words, if text_field has 50 characters, I would expect to get back 10
> rows which would be the numbers 1 to 10. If it has 100 characters, I
> would get back the numbers 1 to 20.

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click on Morgan's Library
click on Pipelined Table Function

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Received on Mon Aug 08 2005 - 23:55:15 CDT

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