I have been trying to create a new table by using below query :
"Create table d1_details_test2
as
select * from d1_details"
this above query gives me an error :
actually "d1_details" table has one column which has "Long" datatype and i cannot change it.
so i want to know the any other way to create the table.
Thanks
The long data type is subject to many restrictions. Create table as select is one of these.
You can get around it by applying to_lob in the select, which converts it to a clob:
create table views as
select view_name, text from user_views;
ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype
create table views as
select view_name, to_lob ( text ) lob
from user_views;
desc views
Name Null? Type
VIEW_NAME VARCHAR2(128)
LOB CLOB
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I'm completely new to Hive and Stack Overflow. I'm trying to create a table with complex data type "STRUCT" and then populate it using INSERT INTO TABLE in Hive.
I'm using the following code:
CREATE TABLE struct_test
(
address STRUCT<
houseno: STRING
,streetname: STRING
,town: STRING
,postcode: STRING
>
);
INSERT INTO TABLE struct_test
SELECT NAMED_STRUCT('123', 'GoldStreet', London', W1a9JF') AS address
FROM dummy_table
LIMIT 1;
I get the following error:
Error while compiling statement: FAILED: semanticException [Error
10044]: Cannot insert into target because column number type are
different 'struct_test': Cannot convert column 0 from struct to
array>.
I was able to use similar code with success to create and populate a data type Array but am having difficulty with Struct. I've tried lots of code examples I've found online but none of them seem to work for me... I would really appreciate some help on this as I've been stuck on it for quite a while now! Thanks.
your sql error. you should use sql:
INSERT INTO TABLE struct_test
SELECT NAMED_STRUCT('houseno','123','streetname','GoldStreet', 'town','London', 'postcode','W1a9JF') AS address
FROM dummy_table LIMIT 1;
You can not insert complex data type directly in Hive.For inserting structs you have function named_struct. You need to create a dummy table with data that you want to be inserted in Structs column of desired table.
Like in your case create a dummy table
CREATE TABLE DUMMY ( houseno: STRING
,streetname: STRING
,town: STRING
,postcode: STRING);
Then to insert in desired table do
INSERT INTO struct_test SELECT named_struct('houseno',houseno,'streetname'
,streetname,'town',town,'postcode',postcode) from dummy;
No need to create any dummy table : just use command :
insert into struct_test
select named_struct("houseno","house_number","streetname","xxxy","town","town_name","postcode","postcode_name");
is Possible:
you must give the columns names in sentence from dummy or other table.
INSERT INTO TABLE struct_test
SELECT NAMED_STRUCT('houseno','123','streetname','GoldStreet', 'town','London', 'postcode','W1a9JF') AS address
FROM dummy
Or
INSERT INTO TABLE struct_test
SELECT NAMED_STRUCT('houseno',tb.col1,'streetname',tb.col2, 'town',tb.col3, 'postcode',tb.col4) AS address
FROM table1 as tb
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS sunil_table(
id INT,
name STRING,
address STRUCT<state:STRING,city:STRING,pincode:INT>)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '.';
INSERT INTO sunil_table 1,"name" SELECT named_struct(
"state","haryana","city","fbd","pincode",4500);???
how to insert both (normal and complex)data into table
I have a table that has one of its columns as a nested table.
I want to copy data of this table to another. How do we frame the INSERT clause for this seems challenging:
Consider. The field that is a nested table is phone_list whose type is a user defined type "TBL_PHONE_EXTN" which is a table of "typ_phone_extn".
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE typ_phone_extn AS OBJECT
(phone_number VARCHAR2 (20), extension VARCHAR2 (10));
/
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE tbl_phone_extn AS TABLE OF typ_phone_extn;
/
Obviously below fails: (with a ORA-00904: : invalid identifier)
INSERT INTO sch2.sub_pat_address (
pat_address_id,
pat_id,
**phone_list,**
last_updated_by
)
SELECT pat_address_id,
pat_id,
**phone_list,**
last_updated_by
FROM sch1.sub_pat_address ;
So i try:
SELECT pat_address_id,
pat_id,
**tbl_phone_extn(typ_phone_extn (phone_number,extension)),**
last_updated_by
FROM sch1.sub_pat_address, **table(phone_list)** ;
What this does is unnest the nested table. So i end up with more records than i want - meaning if a specific pat_address_id had a phone_list of 5 phone,extn combination this gives me 5 records that i cannot and should not be inserting.
So question is, how to keep the nest (nested table column) as-is and insert into the new table? Well, CTAS may be one option but that requires a whole new table instead of a INSERT. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
You can use the COLLECT function to reassemble the unnested elements into a nested table, casting that back to your actual collection type:
SELECT pat_address_id,
pat_id,
cast(collect(typ_phone_extn(phone_number,extension)) as tbl_phone_extn),
last_updated_by
FROM sch1.sub_pat_address, table(phone_list)
GROUP BY pat_address_id, pat_id, last_updated_by;
And you can then use that for your insert, obviously.
The only reason I can see you'd have a problem with your original simple insert would be if each schema had its own types and their tables were built using their own types. But then you'd get ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes or ORA-01031: insufficient privileges rather than ORA-00904.
Even if you have privileges on the types across the schemas, Oracle UDTs have to be the exact same type - it's not enough for them to be constructed identically. If they are different entries in ALL_OBJECTS then they are not interchangeable.
I need to be able to reconstruct a table column by using the column data in DBA_TAB_COLUMNS, and so to develop this I need to understand what each column refers to. I'm looking to understand what DATA_TYPE_MOD is -- the documentation (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14237/statviews_2094.htm#I1020277) says it is a data type modifier, but I can't seem to find any columns with this field populated or any way to populate this field with a dummy column. Anyone familiar with this field?
Data_type_mod column of the [all][dba][user]_tab_columns data dictionary view gets populated when a column of a table is declared as a reference to an object type using REF datatype(contains object identifier(OID) of an object it points to).
create type obj as object(
item number
) ;
create table tb_1(
col ref obj
)
select t.table_name
, t.column_name
, t.data_type_mod
from user_tab_columns t
where t.table_name = 'TB_1'
Result:
table_name column_name data_type_mod
-----------------------------------------
TB_1 COL REF
Oracle has a PL/SQL package that can be used to generate the DDL for creating a table. You would probably be better off using this.
See GET_DDL on http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_metada.htm#i1019414
And see also:
How to get Oracle create table statement in SQL*Plus
I've already tried out a tool named TOYS. I found it free but unfortunately it didn't work.
Then, I tried "RED-Gate Schema Compare for Oracle" but it uses the technique to drop and recreate the table mean while I need to just alter the table with the newly added/dropped columns.
Any help is highly appreciated
Thanks
Starting from Oracle 11g you could use dbms_metadata_diff package and specifically compare_alter() function to compare metadata of two schema objects:
Schema #1 HR
create table tb_test(
col number
)
Schema #2 HR2
create table tb_test(
col_1 number
)
select dbms_metadata_diff.compare_alter( 'TABLE' -- schema object type
, 'TB_TEST' -- object name
, 'TB_TEST' -- object name
, 'HR' -- by default current schema
, 'HR2'
) as res
from dual;
Result:
RES
-------------------------------------------------
ALTER TABLE "HR"."TB_TEST" ADD ("COL_1" NUMBER);
ALTER TABLE "HR"."TB_TEST" DROP ("COL");
For a table in oracle, I can query "all_tab_columns" and get table column information, like the data type, precision, whether or not the column is nullable.
In SQL Developer or TOAD, you can click on a view in the GUI and it will spit out a list of the columns that the view returns and the same set of data (data type, precision, nullable, etc).
So my question is, is there a way to query this column definition for a view, the way you can for a table? How do the GUI tools do it?
You can use user_tab_columns (or all_tab_columns and dba_tab_columns respectively) regardless if table_name refers to a view or a table.
View columns appear in all_tab_columns, so you can query them just as you can tables.
Just simply write this query:
SQL> desc TABLE/VIEW NAME;
For example if the table/view name is "department" Then just write:
SQL> desc department;
This will give the list of all fields, it's type and default Null info of the table or view.
you can use the ANSI catalog views, should work for most RDBMs
select *
from information_schema.columns c
join information_schema.tables t on c.table_name = t.table_name
where table_type = 'view'