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row counting [message #118865]

Mon, 09 May 2005 07:46

jonmich005
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I have something like a grid and I need to count my rows for knowing how big my loop should be.
But I have some rows which are null for seperating some areas.
Now I have the following statement:

While not itl.activity is null loop ...

But how can I tell oracle that it should look over certain null values. Or another statement that it goes to the last record?
Can anyone help me with that?

Greetings Jonas

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Re: row counting [message #118951 is a reply to message #118865]

Mon, 09 May 2005 19:22

djmartin
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Go to http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/forms.html. Find 'Form Builder Reference'. Download it and search for 'count_query'.

Do this command BEFORE doing the execute_query otherwise it will only tell you how many rows were returned by the first fetch.

David

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Re: row counting [message #118976 is a reply to message #118951]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:06

jonmich005
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But I need to use this count in a while?
I also tried it by a select count(...) but the null values aren't count with this statement or do they?

Greetings

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Re: row counting [message #118981 is a reply to message #118865]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:29

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Nulls are not counted. If you want them to count then use NVL and count them.

David

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Re: row counting [message #118983 is a reply to message #118981]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:35

jonmich005
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Ok, so the following should work:

nvl(tl_grid_activity,count(tl_grid_activity)

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Re: row counting [message #118984 is a reply to message #118983]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:36

jonmich005
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but it doesn't.

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Re: row counting [message #118985 is a reply to message #118865]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:43

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Try "count(nvl(tl_grid_activity,'X'))"

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Re: row counting [message #118986 is a reply to message #118985]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:46

jonmich005
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What has to become instead of the X?
Again a count or not?
This is what I have:
select count(nvl(tl_grid_activity,tl_grid_activity+1))

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Re: row counting [message #118987 is a reply to message #118986]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:50

jonmich005
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Thanks it works.
I just had to put a ! on that place.
Thnks a lot

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Re: row counting [message #118990 is a reply to message #118986]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:54

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jonmich005 wrote on Tue, 10 May 2005 17:46

What has to become instead of the X?
Again a count or not?
This is what I have:
select count(nvl(tl_grid_activity,tl_grid_activity+1))

The above count is trying to add 1 to null which will give null. I used 'X' as I thought you were counting a character field.

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Re: row counting [message #118991 is a reply to message #118987]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:55

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jonmich005 wrote on Tue, 10 May 2005 17:50

Thanks it works.
I just had to put a ! on that place.
Thnks a lot

I assume you mean 1 (one).

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Re: row counting [message #118992 is a reply to message #118990]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:55

jonmich005
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Yes but if I put 1 instead of the X it works.
Again thank you

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Re: row counting [message #118993 is a reply to message #118865]

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:55

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If you want to count NULL and NOT NULL values why not use "count(*)" which counts all rows?

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