Re: ORA-00904 on a valid view when using count(*)

so sorry, that was i typo....i was reading gain_vw as gain_view...

Kimberly Smith wrote:

> Hum, its early and really I am more interested in my friend
> getting here and going snowboarding but why are you expecting
> gain_vw to work? Or is that a typo?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Aurora VT de la Vega
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:05 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> we have view named gain_view
> which was created with this sql
> SELECT co.name, sec.alias, sec.security_name, sec.security_symbol,
> sq.open, sq.high,
> sq.low, sq.close, sq.previous, sq.last_trade_price, sq.total_volume,
> sq.total_value,
> (((sq.last_trade_price - sq.previous)/sq.previous) * 100) AS
> perc_change,
> (sq.last_trade_price - sq.previous) AS value_gain
> FROM trade_quotes_vw sq, security sec, company co
> WHERE sq.security_symbol = sec.security_symbol
> AND sec.company_id = co.company_id
> AND NVL(sq.previous,0) > 0
> AND (NVL(sq.last_trade_price,0) - NVL(sq.previous,0)) > 0
> ORDER BY perc_change DESC
>
> when we do a select * from gain_view we get the correct results
> but when we use select count(*) from gain_vw we are getting ORA-00904
>
> any ideas?
>
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> Maria Aurora VT de la Vega (OCP)
> Database Specialist
> Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc.
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