Return-Path: Received: from ensim.rackshack.net (root@localhost) by orafaq.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hABKv2m04307 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:57:02 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.27.56.212 Received: from www3.fatcity.com (rrcs-west-66-27-56-212.biz.rr.com [66.27.56.212]) by ensim.rackshack.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hABKuuc04302 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:57:02 -0600 Received: (from root@localhost) by www3.fatcity.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hABHeRb05096 for oracle-l@orafaq.net; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:40:27 -0800 Received: by fatcity.com (05-Jun-2003/v1.0g-b73/bab) via fatcity.com id 005D6564; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:44:24 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:44:24 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: Daniel Fink Sender: ml-errors@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: Daniel Fink Subject: Re: SQL comparison addition: Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 73; ListGuru (c) 1996-2003 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I may be barking up the wrong tree, but humour an old dba... Could you try running the following and post the output? select sys_context('userenv','session_user'), dump(sys_context('userenv','session_user')), a.reports_login, dump(a.reports_login) from global.client_dim a WHERE sys_context('userenv','session_user') = a.REPORTS_LOGIN; Daniel Chris Stephens wrote: > I just tried: > > 1 SELECT count(*) > 2 FROM global.client_dim a > 3* WHERE sys_context('userenv','session_user') = a.REPORTS_LOGIN > SQL> / > > COUNT(*) > ---------- > 1 > > ...but we had a problem 2 weeks ago where the comparison only worked when I > put in the trim. > > ????????? > > 1 SELECT count(*) > 2 FROM global.client_dim a > 3* WHERE TRIM(sys_context('userenv','session_user')) > =TRIM(a.REPORTS_LOGIN) > SQL> / > > COUNT(*) > ---------- > 0 > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Chris Stephens > INET: ChrisStephens@affina.com > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Daniel Fink INET: Daniel.Fink@Sun.COM Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).