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    left outer join to multiple tables

    I am getting ORA-01417: a table may be outer joined to at most one other table AND CA.CASE_ID = CEYS.CASE_ID (+) AND RPT.HRE_REPORTS_ID = CEYS.HRE_REPORTS_ID (+) AND CA.CASE_ID = ICS.CASE_ID (+) AND RPT.HRE_REPORTS_ID = ICS.HRE_REPORTS_ID (+) What I am...
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    How do I Left out join 2 tables to a single table

    I am getting ORA-01417: a table may be outer joined to at most one other table AND CA.CASE_ID = CEYS.CASE_ID (+) AND RPT.HRE_REPORTS_ID = CEYS.HRE_REPORTS_ID (+) AND CA.CASE_ID = ICS.CASE_ID (+) AND RPT.HRE_REPORTS_ID = ICS.HRE_REPORTS_ID (+) What I am...
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    Asked for parameters multiple times?

    Do you have a subreport that uses the parameter theat you haven't linked?
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    Is there difference between functions extract and to_char

    I am just wondering if anyone knows if there is a performance difference between the extract and to_char functions to get the month or year from a date variable or is there another function to simply parse the month. I am trying to calculate the fiscal year based on a march 31 year end. This is...
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    Change Position multiple Text Boxes or fields on Report

    Select all of the text boxes and Align left This should line up your boxes in a column
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    Change Position multiple Text Boxes or fields on Report

    Not sure if this is what you mean: You need to use the align not size option. Select them all then right click align bottoms, middle etc.
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    Performance -- Order in a Where clause

    Oracle 9i Should your most restrictive clause be the last clause in your where statement or does it matter? I thought oracle processed from the last clause back but my colleague thinks the most restrictive should be the first. I have searched google but have not found an answer. Any Thoughts?
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    eliminating data based on certain criteria

    why not suppress those results where{TBL_Team_Departments.Reports_to}="Joe Zaczyk"
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    Crystal report based on excel

    i'M NOT SURE AS i USE oRACLE DATABASES BUT i WOULD ASSUME IT IS THE SAME FOR EXCEL Under The database option select set location and enter the location of your network drive
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    "In" slow trying to count unique people

    This is part of a 5 part union where I am trying to count the number of unique people and the amount of money spent in 3 program areas. If a person is in program a, I want them counted in program A but not counted in B or C. If they are in B and not A then I want them counted in b and if they...
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    How to find all views containing to_char Function

    Thanks a lot -- it worked Just in case someone else wants to run it -- I had problems in toad 9.1 creating the function with shift f9 -- for some unknown reason it gave me a sql error but when I pressed the execute statement button it worked Thanks again !!!!!
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    How to find all views containing to_char Function

    Hi I want to know how to find all view in our system that have the function to_char I tried select owner,view_name,text from all_views where text like '%to_char%' got inconsistent datatypes text is defined as long does anyone know of a way for me to get this info Thanks
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    Row position in select statement

    SELECT ROWNUM, ('TO_CHAR(' || COLUMN_NAME || ') AS FIELD' || ROWNUM) AS COLUMN_NAME FROM ALL_TAB_COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE V_TABLE ORDER BY ROWNUM The previous statement is not consistant across databases (production versus test -- field1 on test may be field 5 on production) I was...
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    how to set up Array using pl/sql

    I need to create a flat file of case information in fixed columns from an oracle database. There will be one output record per case. I may have to output up to 5 dependents on 1 record for a case -- Simplified version Table 1 table 2 case name...
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    Read Number that has overpunch

    I am writing a procedure that reads in a flat file where the numbers are defined as s9(9). Is there a format that can read an overpunch numeric. Thanks MDL

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