Re: is there a better way to do this?

From: <fitzjarrell_at_cox.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:04:47 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <8f2beee0-062c-434e-b250-c773ce1791dd@72g2000hsu.googlegroups.com>


On Feb 19, 2:32 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.

What, exactly, does that last sentence mean?

David Fitzjarrell Received on Tue Feb 19 2008 - 16:04:47 CST

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