From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Sep 9 14:45:35 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i89JjZM16792 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:45:35 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i89JjYI16787 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:45:35 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 47DD572D16B; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:46:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10279-64; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:46:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id A659572C638; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:46:57 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Subject: RE: writing "recursive SQL" Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:49:04 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: writing "recursive SQL" Thread-Index: AcSWo6ZTND2lqmW4TxCgvRMtMCbN9gAAfoaQ From: "Jacques Kilchoer" To: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Sep 2004 19:49:51.0230 (UTC) FILETIME=[2B8831E0:01C496A6] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 9332 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: Jacques.Kilchoer@quest.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: Jacques.Kilchoer@quest.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org SQL> select * from mytable ; A B --------- --------- 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 0 7 7 8 8 9 8 ligne(s) sélectionnée(s). SQL> select b 2 from mytable 3 connect by prior b = a 4 start with a = 3 ; B --------- 4 5 6 SQL> select b 2 from mytable 3 connect by prior b = a 4 start with a = 7 ; B --------- 8 9 SQL> -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of susan lam ... SQL> select * from mytable; A B ---------- ---------- 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 0 7 7 8 8 9 8 rows selected. If A=3, output the corresponding value of B (ie 4), then match B (ie 4) with A and output the next corresponding value of B (ie 5) and so on... Recursion stops when B != A A & B are unqiue and A= is a user input value The result I'm looking for is: if A=3, then the output is: 4 5 6 if A=7, then the output is: 8 9 ... -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@freelists.org&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/