Percentile_Cont function throwing error - oracle

I have this query where I am trying to introduce a non-static value into PERCENTILE_CONT:
SELECT perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD
, PERCENTILE_CONT(goalsASP.GOAL*.01) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY AVG_AMT ASC) ast75
FROM repDB.TBL_PERFORMANCE perf2 JOIN
pz.CATEGORY C on perf2.DEPTCAT = C.id JOIN
repDB.TBL_GOALS_MATRIX goalsASP ON C.NAME = goalsASP.DIMENSION_Y
and perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD = goalsASP.SNAP_NAME
and goalsASP.DIMENSION_X = 'asp'
GROUP BY perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD
The error thrown is:
ORA-30497: Argument should be a constant or a function of expressions in GROUP BY.
30497. 00000 - "Argument should be a constant or a function of expressions in GROUP BY."
This is in a view, it was working fine when goalsASP.GOAL*.01 was .75 and I have a stored procedure where feeding a column as an argument works just fine so I'm kind of at a loss for what I'm doing wrong here.

Got it. It's not so much a problem of Percentile_Cont, it's a problem of correct grouping.
To troubleshoot I isolated goalsASP.GOAL
SELECT perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD
, goalsASP.GOAL
FROM repDB.TBL_PERFORMANCE perf2 JOIN
pz.CATEGORY C on perf2.DEPTCAT = C.id JOIN
repDB.TBL_GOALS_MATRIX goalsASP ON C.NAME = goalsASP.DIMENSION_Y
and perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD = goalsASP.SNAP_NAME
and goalsASP.DIMENSION_X = 'asp'
GROUP BY perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD
Then it became obvious that I needed to also group by goalsASP.GOAL.
So, then, the answer is:
SELECT perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD
, PERCENTILE_CONT(goalsASP.GOAL*.01) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY AVG_AMT ASC) ast75
FROM repDB.TBL_PERFORMANCE perf2 JOIN
pz.CATEGORY C on perf2.DEPTCAT = C.id JOIN
repDB.TBL_GOALS_MATRIX goalsASP ON C.NAME = goalsASP.DIMENSION_Y
and perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD = goalsASP.SNAP_NAME
and goalsASP.DIMENSION_X = 'asp'
GROUP BY perf2.REVIEW_PERIOD,
goalsASP.GOAL
Kind of embarrassing that I didn't see that before, but tired eyes miss this stuff.

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Missing Keyword Error in Oracle - Wrong Syntax WHERE Expression

I'm new to Oracle SQL, I'm being asked to do some scenarios to learn the different expressions and so on.
I'm currently working on this statement but I keep having trouble with syntax and trying to get my expressions in the correct place.
If you don't mind taking a look at what I'm doing wrong and helping me learn the correct syntax I'd appreciate it a lot.
I have to find everything in the Sale, SaleDetail, OrderStatus, Warehouse, User and StockDetail tables.
The fields I need to find are saleno, serialstart, serialend, the product description (label field), sale status (saleid (I think)), WarehouseName (WH.NAME)
Here below is the code I've written so far.
SELECT
S.SALENO,
SD.SERIALSTART,
SD.SERIALEND,
SDT.LABEL,
USR.USERNAME,
WH.NAME
FROM
ITR_SALE,
ITR_SALEDETAIL,
ITR_ORDER,
ITR_WAREHOUSE,
ITR_USER,
ITR_STOCKDETAIL
JOIN ITR_SALE S
JOIN ITR_SALEDETAIL SD ON S.ID = SD.SALENO
JOIN ITR_WAREHOUSE WH ON SD.ID = WH.NAME
JOIN ITR_ORDER ODR ON WH.ID = ODR.STATUSID
JOIN ITR_USER USR ON ODR.ID = USR.USERNAME
JOIN ITR_STOCKDETAIL ON USR.ID = SDT.LABEL
WHERE S.LASTSTATUSCHANGETIME
BETWEEN ('2016-01-01 00:00:00' AND '2016-12-31 23:59:59')
AND STATUSID = ('COMPLETED');
Below follows the error message
ORA-00905: missing keyword
00905. 00000 - "missing keyword"
*Cause:
*Action:
Error at Line: 21 Column: 1
EDIT:
Finished code below, changed a few expressions and conditions.
SELECT
S.SALENO,
SD.SERIALSTART,
SD.SERIALEND,
SDA.LABEL,
USR.USERNAME,
WH.NAME
FROM
ITR_SALE S
INNER JOIN
ITR_SALEDETAIL SD ON S.ID = SD.SALEID
INNER JOIN
ITR_ORDERSTATUS ODS ON SD.ID = ODS.ID
INNER JOIN
ITR_WAREHOUSE WH ON ODS.ID = WH.NAME
INNER JOIN
ITR_USER USR ON WH.ID = USR.USERNAME
INNER JOIN
ITR_STOCKDETAIL SDA ON USR.ID = SDA.LABEL
WHERE 'DATE' BETWEEN '2016-01-01' AND '2016-12-31'
AND S.STATUSID = '4';`
Use proper join syntax. Edit. Need to remove parenthesis from last line or user IN clause.
SELECT
S.SALENO,
SD.SERIALSTART,
SD.SERIALEND,
SDT.LABEL,
USR.USERNAME,
WH.NAME
FROM
ITR_SALE S INNER JOIN ITR_SALEDETAIL SD ON S.ID = SD.SALENO
INNER JOIN ITR_SALEDETAIL SD ON S.ID = SD.SALENO
INNER JOIN ITR_WAREHOUSE WH ON SD.ID = WH.NAME
INNER JOIN ITR_ORDER ODR ON WH.ID = ODR.STATUSID
INNER JOIN ITR_USER USR ON ODR.ID = USR.USERNAME
INNER JOIN ITR_STOCKDETAIL STD ON USR.ID = SDT.LABEL
WHERE S.LASTSTATUSCHANGETIME
BETWEEN '2016-01-01 00:00:00' AND '2016-12-31 23:59:59'
AND STATUSID = 'COMPLETED';

Invalid Identifier SQL

So i have this:
SELECT p.plantnaam,o.levcode,o.offerteprijs
FROM plant p, offerte o
JOIN (SELECT plantcode , MIN(offerteprijs) AS offprijs
FROM offerte
GROUP BY plantcode) s
ON s.plantcode = p.plantcode
AND s.offprijs = o.offerteprijs
ORDER BY p.plantnaam,l.levcode
Appearently on the 6th row, p.plantcode is suddenly magically an invalid identifier. Why is this? and why are all the others from the exact same table perfectly fine before that point?
The problem is that you are mixing JOINs. You have both implicit and explicit joins. The explicit JOIN syntax with the ON clause has a higher precedence over the implicit join with the commas. As a result the alias for the plant and the offerte tables will not be available in the ON clause. Try using the same JOIN type throughout:
SELECT p.plantnaam, o.levcode, o.offerteprijs
FROM
(
SELECT plantcode , MIN(offerteprijs) AS offprijs
FROM offerte
GROUP BY plantcode
) s
INNER JOIN plant p
ON s.plantcode = p.plantcode
INNER JOIN offerte o
ON s.offprijs = o.offerteprijs
ORDER BY p.plantnaam, l.levcode

Oracle: column ambiguously defined

I know there are lots of questions like these, but my question is not how to get rid of this error but to know how this worked earlier in 9-th version of Oracle.
I've got an old sources written in Ruby and Oracle DB which recently was upgraded to version=11.
I cannot edit data in Oracle DB, only read. so there are two tables lets say: table A(id, name, type, customer) and table B(id,a_id,type,person)
so. there is a query in the source code:
select a.id,b.id from a join b on a.id = b.a_id where type = 'A'
so in Oracle 9 this worked perfectly but now i've got "column ambiguously defined" error.
What i'd like to know is:
where type = 'A'
is the same as
where a.type = 'A' AND b.type = 'A'
or
where a.type = 'A' OR b.type = 'A'
?
I think this was a bug with the ANSI style join. Use DBMS_XPLAN to find which table was being filtered in the old database.
Or better still, work out from the business logic what they query SHOULD have been.
No, and that's the problem: It could mean
where a.type = 'A'
or it could mean
where b.type = 'A'
with potentially different results; hence the error saying it is ambiguously defined.
I think you should test in Oracle 9 (where you say it works) and compare the output of the ambiguous query:
--- Base
select a.id,b.id from a join b on a.id = b.a_id where type = 'A'
with both the non-ambiguous ones:
--- QueryA
select a.id,b.id from a join b on a.id = b.a_id where a.type = 'A'
and:
--- QueryB
select a.id,b.id from a join b on a.id = b.a_id where b.type = 'A'
Something like this would do:
select a.id,b.id from a join b on a.id = b.a_id where type = 'A'
MINUS
select a.id,b.id from a join b on a.id = b.a_id where a.type = 'A'
(in short):
(Base)
MINUS
(QueryA)
and then:
(QueryA)
MINUS
(Base)
If both of the above MINUS queries return 0 rows, then BASE query is interpreted as QueryA.
Check similarly and compare Base with QueryB.
Another plausible reason for this error is that during (or about the same period with ) the migration, a type column was added in the 2nd table. Do you have old versions of the database tables' definitions to check that?
All - keep in mind there was a major change to the optimization engine for 11g. If you set your query optimizer level to 10.2.x on your 11g instance I bet the query would start working again.
That being said you should provide the alias for it so it's not ambiguous to the database server or the DBA / Developer coming behind you. :)

Linq query only returning 1 row

Dim ds = From a In db.Model
Join b In db.1 On a.id Equals b.ID
Join c In db.2 On a.id Equals c.ID
Join d In db.3 On a.id Equals d.ID
Join f In db.4 On a.id Equals f.ID
Select a.id, a.Ref, a.Type, a.etc
Above is my linq query. At the moment I am only getting the first row from the db returned when there are currently 60 rows. Please can you tell me where I am going wrong and how to select all records.
Thanks in advance!
UPDATE:
When I take out all the joins like so:
Dim ds = From a In db.1, b In db.2, c In db.3, d In db.4, f In db.5
Select a.id, a.Ref, a.type, b.etc, c.etc, d.etc
I get a system.outofmemory exception!
You're only going to get a row produced when all of the joins match - in other words, when there's a row from Model with an AP, an Option, a Talk and an Invoice. My guess is that there's only one of those.
LINQ does an inner join by default. If you're looking for a left outer join (i.e. where a particular row may not have an Invoice, or a Talk etc) then you need to use a group join, usually in conjunction with DefaultIfEmpty.
I'm not particularly hot on VB syntax, but this article looks like it's what you're after.

Linq-to-entities - Include() method not loading

If I use a join, the Include() method is no longer working, eg:
from e in dc.Entities.Include("Properties")
join i in dc.Items on e.ID equals i.Member.ID
where (i.Collection.ID == collectionID)
select e
e.Properties is not loaded
Without the join, the Include() works
Lee
UPDATE: Actually I recently added another Tip that covers this, and provides an alternate probably better solution. The idea is to delay the use of Include() until the end of the query, see this for more information: Tip 22 - How to make include really include
There is known limitation in the Entity Framework when using Include().
Certain operations are just not supported with Include.
Looks like you may have run into one on those limitations, to work around this you should try something like this:
var results =
from e in dc.Entities //Notice no include
join i in dc.Items on e.ID equals i.Member.ID
where (i.Collection.ID == collectionID)
select new {Entity = e, Properties = e.Properties};
This will bring back the Properties, and if the relationship between entity and Properties is a one to many (but not a many to many) you will find that each resulting anonymous type has the same values in:
anonType.Entity.Properties
anonType.Properties
This is a side-effect of a feature in the Entity Framework called relationship fixup.
See this Tip 1 in my EF Tips series for more information.
Try this:
var query = (ObjectQuery<Entities>)(from e in dc.Entities
join i in dc.Items on e.ID equals i.Member.ID
where (i.Collection.ID == collectionID)
select e)
return query.Include("Properties")
So what is the name of the navigation property on "Entity" which relates to "Item.Member" (i.e., is the other end of the navigation). You should be using this instead of the join. For example, if "entity" add a property called Member with the cardinality of 1 and Member had a property called Items with a cardinality of many, you could do this:
from e in dc.Entities.Include("Properties")
where e.Member.Items.Any(i => i.Collection.ID == collectionID)
select e
I'm guessing at the properties of your model here, but this should give you the general idea. In most cases, using join in LINQ to Entities is wrong, because it suggests that either your navigational properties are not set up correctly, or you are not using them.
So, I realise I am late to the party here, however I thought I'd add my findings. This should really be a comment on Alex James's post, but as I don't have the reputation it'll have to go here.
So my answer is: it doesn't seem to work at all as you would intend. Alex James gives two interesting solutions, however if you try them and check the SQL, it's horrible.
The example I was working on is:
var theRelease = from release in context.Releases
where release.Name == "Hello World"
select release;
var allProductionVersions = from prodVer in context.ProductionVersions
where prodVer.Status == 1
select prodVer;
var combined = (from release in theRelease
join p in allProductionVersions on release.Id equals p.ReleaseID
select release).Include(release => release.ProductionVersions);
var allProductionsForChosenRelease = combined.ToList();
This follows the simpler of the two examples. Without the include it produces the perfectly respectable sql:
SELECT
[Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
[Extent1].[Name] AS [Name]
FROM [dbo].[Releases] AS [Extent1]
INNER JOIN [dbo].[ProductionVersions] AS [Extent2] ON [Extent1].[Id] = [Extent2].[ReleaseID]
WHERE ('Hello World' = [Extent1].[Name]) AND (1 = [Extent2].[Status])
But with, OMG:
SELECT
[Project1].[Id1] AS [Id],
[Project1].[Id] AS [Id1],
[Project1].[Name] AS [Name],
[Project1].[C1] AS [C1],
[Project1].[Id2] AS [Id2],
[Project1].[Status] AS [Status],
[Project1].[ReleaseID] AS [ReleaseID]
FROM ( SELECT
[Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
[Extent1].[Name] AS [Name],
[Extent2].[Id] AS [Id1],
[Extent3].[Id] AS [Id2],
[Extent3].[Status] AS [Status],
[Extent3].[ReleaseID] AS [ReleaseID],
CASE WHEN ([Extent3].[Id] IS NULL) THEN CAST(NULL AS int) ELSE 1 END AS [C1]
FROM [dbo].[Releases] AS [Extent1]
INNER JOIN [dbo].[ProductionVersions] AS [Extent2] ON [Extent1].[Id] = [Extent2].[ReleaseID]
LEFT OUTER JOIN [dbo].[ProductionVersions] AS [Extent3] ON [Extent1].[Id] = [Extent3].[ReleaseID]
WHERE ('Hello World' = [Extent1].[Name]) AND (1 = [Extent2].[Status])
) AS [Project1]
ORDER BY [Project1].[Id1] ASC, [Project1].[Id] ASC, [Project1].[C1] ASC
Total garbage. The key point to note here is the fact that it returns the outer joined version of the table which has not been limited by status=1.
This results in the WRONG data being returned:
Id Id1 Name C1 Id2 Status ReleaseID
2 1 Hello World 1 1 2 1
2 1 Hello World 1 2 1 1
Note that the status of 2 is being returned there, despite our restriction. It simply does not work.
If I have gone wrong somewhere, I would be delighted to find out, as this is making a mockery of Linq. I love the idea, but the execution doesn't seem to be usable at the moment.
Out of curiosity, I tried the LinqToSQL dbml rather than the LinqToEntities edmx that produced the mess above:
SELECT [t0].[Id], [t0].[Name], [t2].[Id] AS [Id2], [t2].[Status], [t2].[ReleaseID], (
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM [dbo].[ProductionVersions] AS [t3]
WHERE [t3].[ReleaseID] = [t0].[Id]
) AS [value]
FROM [dbo].[Releases] AS [t0]
INNER JOIN [dbo].[ProductionVersions] AS [t1] ON [t0].[Id] = [t1].[ReleaseID]
LEFT OUTER JOIN [dbo].[ProductionVersions] AS [t2] ON [t2].[ReleaseID] = [t0].[Id]
WHERE ([t0].[Name] = #p0) AND ([t1].[Status] = #p1)
ORDER BY [t0].[Id], [t1].[Id], [t2].[Id]
Slightly more compact - weird count clause, but overall same total FAIL.
Has anybody actually ever used this stuff in a real business application? I'm really starting to wonder...
Please tell me I've missed something obvious, as I really want to like Linq!
Try the more verbose way to do more or less the same thing obtain the same results, but with more datacalls:
var mydata = from e in dc.Entities
join i in dc.Items
on e.ID equals i.Member.ID
where (i.Collection.ID == collectionID)
select e;
foreach (Entity ent in mydata) {
if(!ent.Properties.IsLoaded) { ent.Properties.Load(); }
}
Do you still get the same (unexpected) result?
EDIT: Changed the first sentence, as it was incorrect. Thanks for the pointer comment!

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