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hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267038]

Wed, 12 September 2007 05:54

niru.reddy
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hi
I have got one table with columns
like WK1,WK2,Wk3------------------------WK37,wk38---WK52)
Those are week numbers
I want to pass date as a prarameter .now from that date i should calculate week number and that week number should match the column name as WK37 (if given date week number is 37) then it should retrieve that column's data
I am trying this way

select 'WK'||TO_CHAR(sysdate,'WW') from table name

i am finding week number from TO_CHAR(sysdate,'WW')

but i am not able to concatinate with'WK'
pls give me the solution

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267041 is a reply to message #267038]

Wed, 12 September 2007 06:05

Cthulhu
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Location: UK

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select 'WK'||TO_CHAR(sysdate,'WW') from table name

will give you the literal string WK37 rather than the contents of the column WK37.

You will need to use dynamic SQL to format the statement you want e.g.

v_sql := 'select wk'||TO_CHAR(sysdate,'WW')||' from table';
open v_curs for v_sql;
fetch v_curs into v_result;

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267043 is a reply to message #267038]

Wed, 12 September 2007 06:12

Michel Cadot
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Of course, you realize this is a bad design.

Regards
Michel

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267051 is a reply to message #267043]

Wed, 12 September 2007 06:30

Soumen Kamilya
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Otherwise you can use execute immediate also Cool

Cheers
Soumen

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267055 is a reply to message #267051]

Wed, 12 September 2007 06:40

JRowbottom
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If you are going to be accessing this table a lot, I'd give serious consideration to building a view on top of it to split the WK01-52 columns down into seperate rows.

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267060 is a reply to message #267055]

Wed, 12 September 2007 06:46

niru.reddy
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yes sir i am going to use this table a lot pls help me
and all of my work on this table only

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267063 is a reply to message #267060]

Wed, 12 September 2007 06:53

Soumen Kamilya
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Location: Kolkata

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Please do not use IM Speak here.

You can retrive the data using execute immediate.
For example:

declare
vSql varchar2(200);
vValue varchar2(20);
begin
vSql := 'SELECT to_char(to_date('''||sysdate||'''),''WW'') from dual';
execute immediate  vSql into vValue;
dbms_output.put_line(vSql||'  '||vValue);
end;

Cheers
Soumen

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267064 is a reply to message #267060]

Wed, 12 September 2007 06:55

Michel Cadot
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So please change the table.
Use only a week column to store the week number and a value column to store the associated value.
Otherwise you WILL suffer many performances problems (note I use WILL and not would as this is sure).

Regards
Michel

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267110 is a reply to message #267064]

Wed, 12 September 2007 09:05

MarcL
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Registered: November 2006
Location: Connecticut, USA

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Michel Cadot wrote on Wed, 12 September 2007 06:55

Michel is 100% correct. If you do not alter this table design you will regret it for the whole time that you need to work with this application . Those that maintain it after you have moved on will curse you each and every day.

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Re: hoe to select the concatenated column [message #267277 is a reply to message #267038]

Wed, 12 September 2007 23:17

Arju
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Atomic is a word that is taught at the beginning while learning SQL.

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