I would like to write a stored procedure that inserts some data into a table from another table (table b). But does one date from table b at a time. The date range is given as parameters in the stored procedures
Is my logic correct? I would really appreciate some tips
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE database_name.test(start_date,end_date)
-- declare parameters convert dates into numbers
BEGIN FOR i in start_date..end_date LOOP INSERT INTO SOME_TABLE SELECT
* FROM OTHER_TABLE WHERE date = i END LOOP
END database_name.test;
Is there a reason that you need a loop? I would think that you'd just want
INSERT INTO destination_table
SELECT *
FROM source_table
WHERE source_table.date_column BETWEEN p_start_date AND p_end_date;
What you really need is not clear (from my point of view). If you need to create some dates list, you could use the following query to generate a list a dates between the begin date [bgin_d] and the end date [end_d]:
WITH dtes AS (SELECT SYSDATE bgin_d, SYSDATE + 30 end_d FROM DUAL)
SELECT bgin_d + LEVEL
FROM dtes
CONNECT BY bgin_d <= end_d;
Related
Could you please tell me how to compare differences between table and my select query and insert those results in separate table? My plan is to create one base table (name RESULT) by using select statement and populate it with current result set. Then next day I would like to create procedure which will going to compare same select with RESULT table, and insert differences into another table called DIFFERENCES.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
You can create the RESULT_TABLE using CTAS as follows:
CREATE TABLE RESULT_TABLE
AS SELECT ... -- YOUR QUERY
Then you can use the following procedure which calculates the difference between your query and data from RESULT_TABLE:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE FIND_DIFF
AS
BEGIN
INSERT INTO DIFFERENCES
--data present in the query but not in RESULT_TABLE
(SELECT ... -- YOUR QUERY
MINUS
SELECT * FROM RESULT_TABLE)
UNION
--data present in the RESULT_TABLE but not in the query
(SELECT * FROM RESULT_TABLE
MINUS
SELECT ... );-- YOUR QUERY
END;
/
I have used the UNION and the difference between both of them in a different order using MINUS to insert the deleted data also in the DIFFERENCES table. If this is not the requirement then remove the query after/before the UNION according to your requirement.
-- Create a table with results from the query, and ID as primary key
create table result_t as
select id, col_1, col_2, col_3
from <some-query>;
-- Create a table with new rows, deleted rows or updated rows
create table differences_t as
select id
-- Old values
,b.col_1 as old_col_1
,b.col_2 as old_col_2
,b.col_3 as old_col_3
-- New values
,a.col_1 as new_col_1
,a.col_2 as new_col_2
,a.col_3 as new_col_3
-- Execute the query once again
from <some-query> a
-- Outer join to detect also detect new/deleted rows
full join result_t b using(id)
-- Null aware comparison
where decode(a.col_1, b.col_1, 1, 0) = 0
or decode(a.col_2, b.col_2, 1, 0) = 0
or decode(a.col_3, b.col_3, 1, 0) = 0;
I'm very new to using Oracle (I'm using TOAD 11.6), I would like to turn this code into something that would work in Oracle, how do I do it?!
declare #yesterday datetime
set #yesterday = (select cast(cast(getdate() as varchar(12)) as datetime)-1)
select *
from my_table
where disp_cret_dt >= #yesterday
Thanks in advance!!
I think you're after:
select *
from my_table
where disp_cret_dt >= trunc(sysdate-1);
That's assuming that disp_cret_dt is of datatype DATE or TIMESTAMP.
In Oracle, differences between two dates (which includes the time) are always returned as the number of days difference - and it can contain fractions of a day (eg. today at 12 noon - today at midnight = 0.5).
SYSDATE is Oracle's way of returning the current date+time.
TRUNC(dt, level) is the way you can truncate the date to whichever level you like - the default is day (which will just reset the time to midnight - 00:00), but you could do month (takes it back to the first of the month), hours etc etc.
Below is an equivalent code for oracle
declare yesterday date;
begin
select to_char(sysdate-1,'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mi:ss') into yesterday from dual;
select * into var1,var2..varn from my_table
where disp_cret_dt>=yesterday;
end;
1.Dual is temporary table in oracle which contains one column named as dummy with data type of varchar2(1). For more Refer here.
2.The SELECT INTO clause of SQL is used to retrieve one row or set of columns from the Oracle database. The SELECT INTO is actually a standard SQL query where the SELECT INTO clause is used to place the returned data into predefined variables.
If you want to return three items you have to define three variables in our pl/sql block with respective data types after applying these changes to above code it looks
declare
yesterday date;
v_item1 number;
v_item2 varchar2(11);
v_item3 date;
begin
select to_char(sysdate-1,'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mi:ss') into yesterday from dual;
select item1, item2,item3 into v_item1,v_item2,v_item3 from my_table
where disp_cret_dt>=yesterday;
Dbms_output.put_line('Item1: '||v_item1||'Item2: '||v_item2||'Item3: '||v_item3);--Displaying values
end;
Note: In the above code if your select query will returns more than one row for each yesterday value then it will throws an error. Because at a time a variable will holds one value. In that scenario we have to choose collections in oracle for more Refer here.
if you want to have "yesterday" in a seperate variable because you use it more than once in your code, assign "sysdate-1" to it:
declare
yesterday date := trunc(sysdate - 1);
begin
select * from my_table where disp_cret_dt >= yesterday;
end;
I have a table that has a StartDate and EndDate field, and also a ton of other fields. I need to break out each record by all the days between and including StartDate & EndDate into another table that looks exactly like the original except it has a CurrentDate field and 2 calculated fields. The CurrentDate field is the current date between StartDate and EndDate that I'm interating on.
My question is, since there are a ton of fields in this, is there any easy way from within my stored proc, to insert the entire row the cursor is currently on AND this 1 new column, without having to list out every single row in the insert statement? It's so tedious.
If your source and destination tables fit this profile:
Destination table columns are the same as your source table's columns, and
The new destination column is at the end
... then you could do something like this:
INSERT INTO dest_table
SELECT Source_Table.*, new_value
FROM Source_Table
WHERE Source_Table.PKValue = cursor.PKValue
If it's a case of your cursor resembling the destination table, something like this may work but note I haven't tested it:
CREATE PROCEDURE whatever IS
destRow dest_table%ROWTYPE;
CURSOR fromSourceTable IS
SELECT <your existing select list>, NULL AS new_value
FROM <the rest of your cursor query>;
BEGIN
FOR destRow IN fromSourceTable LOOP
destRow.new_value = <the split date>;
INSERT INTO dest_table VALUES destRow;
END LOOP;
END whatever;
I'm going out on a limb with the NULL AS new_value. If you have trouble try CAST(NULL AS DATE) AS new_value instead, and if you still have trouble try something like SYSDATE AS new_value. Again, this isn't tested but if you think it's promising and have trouble implementing I'd be happy to test it.
It's easy enough to densify the data in a single SQL statement. Assuming that you know a reasonable minimum and maximum range for your begin_date and end_date (I'll assume Jan 1, 2000 - Dec 31, 2020 for the moment but you can obviously adjust that)
WITH all_days AS (
SELECT date '2000-01-01' + level dt
FROM dual
CONNECT BY level <= date '2020-12-31' - date '2000-01-01'
)
SELECT <<list of colums from your table>>,
all_days.dt current_date
FROM your_table actual
JOIN all_days ON (actual.begin_date <= all_days.dt AND
actual.end_date >= all_days.dt)
If you don't want to hard-code the starting and ending dates, you can fetch them from your table as well. That just requires that you hit the table a second time which will generally be less efficient.
Do want to create Stored procc which updates or inserts into table based on the condition if current line does not exist in table?
This is what I have come up with so far:
PROCEDURE SP_UPDATE_EMPLOYEE
(
SSN VARCHAR2,
NAME VARCHAR2
)
AS
BEGIN
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM tblEMPLOYEE a where a.ssn = SSN)
--what ? just carry on to else
ELSE
INSERT INTO pb_mifid (ssn, NAME)
VALUES (SSN, NAME);
END;
Is this the way to achieve this?
This is quite a common pattern. Depending on what version of Oracle you are running, you could use the merge statement (I am not sure what version it appeared in).
create table test_merge (id integer, c2 varchar2(255));
create unique index test_merge_idx1 on test_merge(id);
merge into test_merge t
using (select 1 id, 'foobar' c2 from dual) s
on (t.id = s.id)
when matched then update set c2 = s.c2
when not matched then insert (id, c2)
values (s.id, s.c2);
Merge is intended to merge data from a source table, but you can fake it for individual rows by selecting the data from dual.
If you cannot use merge, then optimize for the most common case. Will the proc usually not find a record and need to insert it, or will it usually need to update an existing record?
If inserting will be most common, code such as the following is probably best:
begin
insert into t (columns)
values ()
exception
when dup_val_on_index then
update t set cols = values
end;
If update is the most common, then turn the procedure around:
begin
update t set cols = values;
if sql%rowcount = 0 then
-- nothing was updated, so the record doesn't exist, insert it.
insert into t (columns)
values ();
end if;
end;
You should not issue a select to check for the row and make the decision based on the result - that means you will always need to run two SQL statements, when you can get away with one most of the time (or always if you use merge). The less SQL statements you use, the better your code will perform.
BEGIN
INSERT INTO pb_mifid (ssn, NAME)
select SSN, NAME from dual
where not exists(SELECT * FROM tblEMPLOYEE a where a.ssn = SSN);
END;
UPDATE:
Attention, you should name your parameter p_ssn(distinguish to the column SSN ), and the query become:
INSERT INTO pb_mifid (ssn, NAME)
select P_SSN, NAME from dual
where not exists(SELECT * FROM tblEMPLOYEE a where a.ssn = P_SSN);
because this allways exists:
SELECT * FROM tblEMPLOYEE a where a.ssn = SSN
I have a stored procedure that is doing a two-step query. The first step is to gather a list of VARCHAR2 type characters from a table and collect them into a table variable, defined like this:
TYPE t_cids IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(50) INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
v_cids t_cids;
So basically I have:
SELECT item BULK COLLECT INTO v_cids FROM table_one;
This works fine up until the next bit.
Now I want to use that collection in the where clause of another query within the same procedure, like so:
SELECT * FROM table_two WHERE cid IN v_cids;
Is there a way to do this? I am able to select an individual element, but I would like to use the table variable like a would use a regular table. I've tried variations using nested selects, but that doesn't seem to work either.
Thanks a lot,
Zach
You have several choices as to how you achieve this.
If you want to use a collection, then you can use the TABLE function to select from it but the type of collection you use becomes important.
for a brief example, this creates a database type that is a table of numbers:
CREATE TYPE number_tab AS TABLE OF NUMBER
/
Type created.
The next block then populates the collection and performs a rudimentary select from it using it as a table and joining it to the EMP table (with some output so you can see what's happening):
DECLARE
-- Create a variable and initialise it
v_num_tab number_tab := number_tab();
--
-- This is a collection for showing the output
TYPE v_emp_tabtype IS TABLE OF emp%ROWTYPE
INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
v_emp_tab v_emp_tabtype;
BEGIN
-- Populate the number_tab collection
v_num_tab.extend(2);
v_num_tab(1) := 7788;
v_num_tab(2) := 7902;
--
-- Show output to prove it is populated
FOR i IN 1 .. v_num_tab.COUNT
LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(v_num_tab(i));
END LOOP;
--
-- Perform a select using the collection as a table
SELECT e.*
BULK COLLECT INTO v_emp_tab
FROM emp e
INNER JOIN TABLE(v_num_tab) nt
ON (e.empno = nt.column_value);
--
-- Display the select output
FOR i IN 1 .. v_emp_tab.COUNT
LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(v_emp_tab(i).empno||' is a '||v_emp_tab(i).job);
END LOOP;
END;
You can see from this that the database TYPE collection (number_tab) was treated as a table and could be used as such.
Another option would be to simply join your two tables you are selecting from in your example:
SELECT tt.*
FROM table_two tt
INNER JOIN table_one to
ON (to.item = tt.cid);
There are other ways of doing this but the first might suit your needs best.
Hope this helps.
--Doesn't work.
--SELECT item BULK COLLECT AS 'mySelectedItems' INTO v_cids FROM table_one;
SELECT table_two.*
FROM table_two INNER JOIN v_cids
ON table_two.paramname = v_cids.mySelectedItems;
Unless I'm misunderstanding the question, this should only return results that are in the table variable.
Note: I've never used Oracle, but I imagine this case would be the same.