RE: How to select only columns having values..

Without actually querying the table, you cannot identify the 10 columns.  

You could periodically query the table for all the rows and identify columns with NOT NULL values and then maintain a list of such columns as "meta data". However, there is no guarantee that a column that had NULL values for all 1000 rows yesterday or even a minute ago still has NULL values because there might have been an INSERT or UPDATE that set one row's value to a non-NULL.  

How do you know that the 190 columns have NULL values ?  

Hemant K Chitale    

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Raja Kannan Sengoden Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 12:38 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: How to select only columns having values..  

Dear Experts,  

I have a table with 200 columns and having above 1000 Records.  

But for a particular where clause, there is only 3 records fetched.  

As the table having 200 columns, but the particular 3 record having only 10 columns with some value, and 190 columns having null value.  

If I am sure, which columns I want or which column having value, then I can select only those columns.  

If I don't know exactly, Is there any way to select only those 10 columns?  

If I get the data like this, It will save few minutes for the data arrangement.    

Thanks in advance.  

Raja.

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