Re: is there a better way to do this?

From: Ben <benalvey_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:42:42 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <3088873d-ef60-44ca-90d1-014baf83eccd@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>


On Feb 19, 3:32 pm, Ben <benal..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> 10.2.0.2 EE
>
> Is there a more logical sql statement to get the same results than
> what I am running here?
>
> create table t (a number, b number);
>
> insert into t values (1, 1);
> insert into t values (1, 2);
> insert into t values (2, 3);
> insert into t values (3, 2);
> insert into t values (4, 4);
> insert into t values (4, 5);
> insert into t values (5, 1);
> insert into t values (6, 8);
> commit;
>
> select a.a, a.b
> from t a, (
> select b, count(distinct a)
> from t
> group by b
> having count(distinct a) > 1) b
> where a.b = b.b
>
>          A          B C                    D
> ---------- ---------- -------------------- --------------------
>          5          1 a                    a
>          1          1 a                    a
>          3          2 a                    a
>          1          2 a                    a
>
> What I am wanting are the values for A where B is the same.

The table had other columns (C, and D) that I meant to remove from the output for clarity. Instead I forgot to remove them and in turn made it confusing. Received on Tue Feb 19 2008 - 14:42:42 CST

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