Directive.include with dynamic variable

How would I put a variable I have called ${includeFile} into an include directive below? I tried
<jsp:directive.include file="${includeFile} " />
And this did not work...

How would I put a variable I have called
${includeFile} into an include directive below? I
tried
<jsp:directive.include file="${includeFile} " />are you sure of the Syntax ?
>
And this did not work...We can do 2 types of include in a jsp file see the Syntax .....
1.<jsp:include> ----Includes a static file or sends a request to a dynamic file
<jsp:include page="{relativeURL | <%= expression %>}" flush="true" />
or
<jsp:include page="{relativeURL | <%= expression %>}" flush="true" >
<jsp:param name="parameterName"
value="{parameterValue | <%= expression %>}" />+
</jsp:include>
2.Include Directive
<%@ include file="relativeURL" %> -----Includes a static file in a JSP file, parsing the file's JSP elements.
Deside which one you want to use...
---Vidya

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loop at objects.
assign objects-name to <fs>.
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I do not get any value to tmp_var. Need help!
thanks
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Try this.
loop at objects.
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How to generate report with dynamic variable number of columns?

How to generate report with dynamic variable number of columns?
I need to generate a report with varying column names (state names) as follows:
SELECT AK, AL, AR,... FROM States ;
I get these column names from the result of another query.
In order to clarify my question, Please consider following table:
CREATE TABLE TIME_PERIODS (
PERIOD     VARCHAR2 (50) PRIMARY KEY
CREATE TABLE STATE_INCOME (
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I like to generate a report as follows:
AK CA DE FL ...
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SQL> -- test tables and test data:
SQL> CREATE TABLE states
2    (state VARCHAR2 (2))
3 /
Table created.
SQL> INSERT INTO states
2 VALUES ('AK')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO states
2 VALUES ('AL')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO states
2 VALUES ('AR')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO states
2 VALUES ('CA')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO states
2 VALUES ('DE')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO states
2 VALUES ('FL')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> CREATE TABLE TIME_PERIODS
2    (PERIOD VARCHAR2 (50) PRIMARY KEY)
3 /
Table created.
SQL> INSERT INTO time_periods
2 VALUES ('PERIOD1')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO time_periods
2 VALUES ('PERIOD2')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO time_periods
2 VALUES ('PERIOD3')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO time_periods
2 VALUES ('PERIOD4')
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> CREATE TABLE STATE_INCOME
2    (NAME   VARCHAR2 (2),
3      PERIOD VARCHAR2 (50) REFERENCES TIME_PERIODS (PERIOD),
4      INCOME NUMBER (12, 2))
5 /
Table created.
SQL> INSERT INTO state_income
2 VALUES ('AK', 'PERIOD1', 1222.23)
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO state_income
2 VALUES ('CA', 'PERIOD1', 2423.20)
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO state_income
2 VALUES ('DE', 'PERIOD1', 232.33)
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> INSERT INTO state_income
2 VALUES ('FL', 'PERIOD1', 345.21)
3 /
1 row created.
SQL> -- the basic query:
SQL> SELECT   SUBSTR (time_periods.period, 1, 10) period,
2            SUM (DECODE (name, 'AK', income)) "AK",
3            SUM (DECODE (name, 'CA', income)) "CA",
4            SUM (DECODE (name, 'DE', income)) "DE",
5            SUM (DECODE (name, 'FL', income)) "FL"
6 FROM     state_income, time_periods
7 WHERE    time_periods.period = state_income.period (+)
8 AND      time_periods.period IN ('PERIOD1','PERIOD2','PERIOD3')
9 GROUP BY ROLLUP (time_periods.period)
10 /
PERIOD             AK         CA         DE         FL
PERIOD1       1222.23     2423.2     232.33     345.21
PERIOD2
PERIOD3
              1222.23     2423.2     232.33     345.21
SQL> -- package that dynamically executes the query
SQL> -- given variable numbers and values
SQL> -- of states and periods:
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE package_name
2 AS
3    TYPE cursor_type IS REF CURSOR;
4    PROCEDURE procedure_name
5       (p_periods   IN     VARCHAR2,
6        p_states    IN     VARCHAR2,
7        cursor_name IN OUT cursor_type);
8 END package_name;
9 /
Package created.
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY package_name
2 AS
3    PROCEDURE procedure_name
4       (p_periods   IN     VARCHAR2,
5        p_states    IN     VARCHAR2,
6        cursor_name IN OUT cursor_type)
7    IS
8       v_periods          VARCHAR2 (1000);
9       v_sql               VARCHAR2 (4000);
10       v_states          VARCHAR2 (1000) := p_states;
11    BEGIN
12       v_periods := REPLACE (p_periods, ',', ''',''');
13       v_sql := 'SELECT SUBSTR(time_periods.period,1,10) period';
14       WHILE LENGTH (v_states) > 1
15       LOOP
16         v_sql := v_sql
17         || ',SUM(DECODE(name,'''
18         || SUBSTR (v_states,1,2) || ''',income)) "' || SUBSTR (v_states,1,2)
19         || '"';
20         v_states := LTRIM (SUBSTR (v_states, 3), ',');
21       END LOOP;
22       v_sql := v_sql
23       || 'FROM     state_income, time_periods
24           WHERE    time_periods.period = state_income.period (+)
25           AND      time_periods.period IN (''' || v_periods || ''')
26           GROUP BY ROLLUP (time_periods.period)';
27       OPEN cursor_name FOR v_sql;
28    END procedure_name;
29 END package_name;
30 /
Package body created.
SQL> -- sample executions from SQL:
SQL> VARIABLE g_ref REFCURSOR
SQL> EXEC package_name.procedure_name ('PERIOD1,PERIOD2,PERIOD3','AK,CA,DE,FL', :g_ref)
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> PRINT g_ref
PERIOD             AK         CA         DE         FL
PERIOD1       1222.23     2423.2     232.33     345.21
PERIOD2
PERIOD3
              1222.23     2423.2     232.33     345.21
SQL> EXEC package_name.procedure_name ('PERIOD1,PERIOD2','AK,AL,AR', :g_ref)
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> PRINT g_ref
PERIOD             AK         AL         AR
PERIOD1       1222.23
PERIOD2
              1222.23
SQL> -- sample execution from PL/SQL block
SQL> -- using parameters derived from processing
SQL> -- cursors containing results of other queries:
SQL> DECLARE
2    CURSOR c_period
3    IS
4    SELECT period
5    FROM   time_periods;
6    v_periods   VARCHAR2 (1000);
7    v_delimiter VARCHAR2 (1) := NULL;
8    CURSOR c_states
9    IS
10    SELECT state
11    FROM   states;
12    v_states    VARCHAR2 (1000);
13 BEGIN
14    FOR r_period IN c_period
15    LOOP
16       v_periods := v_periods || v_delimiter || r_period.period;
17       v_delimiter := ',';
18    END LOOP;
19    v_delimiter := NULL;
20    FOR r_states IN c_states
21    LOOP
22       v_states := v_states || v_delimiter || r_states.state;
23       v_delimiter := ',';
24    END LOOP;
25    package_name.procedure_name (v_periods, v_states, :g_ref);
26 END;
27 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> PRINT g_ref
PERIOD             AK         AL         AR         CA         DE         FL
PERIOD1       1222.23                           2423.2     232.33     345.21
PERIOD2
PERIOD3
PERIOD4
              1222.23                           2423.2     232.33     345.21

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Is it possible to use one equation with 2 or more variables and make one of these variable as an output without changing the equation?
Take the equation below example:
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Hi ,
I am constructing a web based system which stores personal information on people. I have created a Person class with all the obvoius variables, forename, surname, address etc.. My problem is that some clients wish to make use of some of the variables, some want other variables and as i meet others they wish to add in some new variables eg
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cormacodonnell wrote:
Hi ,
I am constructing a web based system which stores personal information on people. I have created a Person class with all the obvoius variables, forename, surname, address etc.. My problem is that some clients wish to make use of some of the variables, some want other variables and as i meet others they wish to add in some new variables eg
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Hi,
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create type t_id is table of number
SQL> create type t_id is table of number
2 /
Type created.
SQL> declare
2
3   v_tid t_id;
4   v_results sys_refcursor;
5
6   v_employee_id number;
7   v_name varchar2(100);
8
9   v_sql varchar2(1000);
10
11
12 begin
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14
15 --
16
17
18   v_sql := 'select empno, ename from scott.emp ' ||CHR(10)
19           || 'where empno in (select column_value from table(cast(:v_tid as
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20
21   dbms_output.put_line(v_sql);
22   dbms_output.put_line('----------');
23
24   open v_results for v_sql using v_tid;
25
26
27   IF v_results IS NOT NULL
28     THEN
29        LOOP
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31            INTO v_employee_id, v_name;
32
33           EXIT WHEN (v_results%NOTFOUND);
34           dbms_output.put_line(v_name);
35        END LOOP;
36
37        IF v_results%ISOPEN
38        THEN
39           CLOSE v_results;
40        END IF;
41    END IF;
42
43 end;
44 /
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table(cast(:v_tid as t_id)))
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I've got a simplified report page where the report runs slowly compared to running the same query in sqldeveloper. The report region is based on a pl/sql function returning a query. If I use a bind variable in the query inside apex it takes 13 seconds to run, and if I hard code a string it takes only a few hundredths of a second. The query returns one row from a table which has 1.6 million rows. Statistics are up-to-date and the columns in the joins and where clause are indexed.
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select p.master_id link, p.first_name||' '||p.middle_name||' '||p.last_name||' '||p.suffix personname,
p.gender||' '||p.date_of_birth g_dob, p.master_id||'*****'||substr(p.ssn,-4) ssn, p.status status
from persons p
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order by 1
call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
Parse        1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Execute      1      0.00       0.01          0          1         27           0
Fetch        2     13.15      13.22      67694      72865          0           1
total        4     13.15      13.23      67694      72866         27           1
Misses in library cache during parse: 0
Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
Parsing user id: 62 (ODPS_PRIVACYVAULT)   (recursive depth: 1)
Rows     Row Source Operation
      1 SORT ORDER BY (cr=72869 pr=67694 pw=0 time=0 us cost=29615 size=14255040 card=178188)
      1   FILTER (cr=72869 pr=67694 pw=0 time=0 us)
      1    HASH JOIN RIGHT SEMI (cr=72865 pr=67694 pw=0 time=0 us cost=26308 size=14255040 card=178188)
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1696485     TABLE ACCESS FULL PERSONS (cr=54320 pr=54315 pw=0 time=21965 us cost=14958 size=108575040 card=1696485)
Rows     Execution Plan
      0 SELECT STATEMENT   MODE: ALL_ROWS
      1   SORT (ORDER BY)
      1    FILTER
      1     HASH JOIN (RIGHT SEMI)
      1      INDEX   MODE: ANALYZED (FAST FULL SCAN) OF
                 'IDX$$_0A300001' (INDEX)
1696485      TABLE ACCESS   MODE: ANALYZED (FULL) OF 'PERSONS' (TABLE)
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----------------------------------------   Waited ---------- ------------
db file scattered read                       1276        0.00          0.16
db file sequential read                       812        0.00          0.02
direct path read                             1552        0.00          0.61
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p.gender||' '||p.date_of_birth g_dob, p.master_id||'*****'||substr(p.ssn,-4) ssn, p.status status
from persons p
where
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order by 1
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Parse        1      0.02       0.04          0          0          0           0
Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0         13           0
Fetch        2      0.00       0.00          0          8          0           1
total        4      0.02       0.04          0          8         13           1
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Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
Parsing user id: 62 (ODPS_PRIVACYVAULT)   (recursive depth: 1)
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      1    NESTED LOOPS (cr=8 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us)
      1     NESTED LOOPS (cr=7 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=8 size=80 card=1)
      1      SORT UNIQUE (cr=4 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=5 size=16 card=1)
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      1   SORT (ORDER BY)
      1    FILTER
      1     NESTED LOOPS
      1      NESTED LOOPS
      1       SORT (UNIQUE)
      1        TABLE ACCESS   MODE: ANALYZED (BY INDEX ROWID) OF
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Patrick, interesting insight. Thank you.
The optimizer must be peeking at my bind variables with it's eyes closed. I'm the only one testing and I've never passed %anything as a bind value. :)
Here's what I've learned since my last post:
I don't think that sqldeveloper is actually using the explain plan it says it is. When I run explain plan in sqldeveloper (with a bind variable) it shows me the exact same plan as Apex with a bind variable. However, when I run autotrace in sqldeveloper, it takes a path that matches the hard coded values, and returns results in half a second. That autotrace run is consistent with actually running the query outside of autotrace. So, I think either sqldeveloper isn't really using bind variables, OR it is using them in some other way that Apex does not, or maybe optimizer peeking works in sqldeveloper?
Using optimizer hints to tweak the plan helps. I've tried both /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ and /*+ index(ps pk_persons) */ and both drop the query to about a second. However, I'm loath to use hints because of the very dynamic nature of the query (and Tom Kyte doesn't like them either). The hints may end up hurting other variations on the query.
I also tested the query by wrapping it in a select count(1) from ([long query]) and testing the performance in sqldeveloper and in Apex. The performance in that case is identical with both bind variables and hard coded variables for both Apex and SqlDeveloper. That to me was very interesting and I went so far as to set up two bind variable report regions on the same page. One region wrapped the long query with select count(1) from (...) and the other didn't. The wrapped query ran in 0.01 seconds, the unwrapped took 15ish seconds with no other optimizations. Very strange.
To get performance up to acceptable levels I have changed my function returning query to:
1) Set the equality operator to "=" for values without wildcards and "like" for user input with wildcards. This makes a HUGE difference IF no wildcard is used.
2) Insert a /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ hint when users chose the column that requires the sub-query. This obviously changes the optimizer's plan and improves query speed from 15 seconds to 1.5 seconds even with wildcards.
I will NOT be hard coding any user supplied values in the query string. As you can probably tell by the query, this is an application where sql injection would be very bad.
Jeff, regarding your question about "like '%' || :P71_SEARCH_SOURCE1 || '%'". I've found that putting wildcards around values, particularly at the beginning will negate any indexing on the column in question and slows performance even more.
I'm still left wondering if there isn't something in Apex that is breaking the optimizer "peeking" that Patrick describes. Perhaps something in the way it switches contexts from apex_public_user to the workspace schema?

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I need to know how to create a query with dynamic columns. Meaning, I don't want to create a query with fixed columns representing the 12 periods of the fiscal year to show me actuals as the fiscal year proceeds.
For example, if I am currently in the middle of period 3 (March) of a fiscal year, when I execute the query, I need it to automatically only show me the 'Actuals' for periods 1 and 2, without seeing the columns from periods 3 to 12 showing blank.
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Hi Josh,
I'm having a little difficuluty understanding what should be included in my restricted key figures.
The time characteristics that I have available to use are:
0FISCPER3 (posting period)
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0FISCVARNT (fiscal year variant).
In addition, I have the following characteristics available to be used in the columns:
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Currency (USD).
Can you explain what my restricted key figure should be based on and how it should look.
I tried to create a restircted key figure using 0AMOUNT, and 0FISCPER3. For 0FISCPER3 I created a range from 1 to previous period (using SAP EXIT that supplied previous period).I also had value type, version, currency type, and currency included in that restricted key figure.Then when I tried to drag 0FISCPER3 under the restricted key figure once again, it wouldn't let me, probably because I've already used 0FISCPER3 in the restricted key figure.
Please let me know if my explanation is not clear.
Your step by step help would be great.
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Edited by: Ehab Mansour on Sep 23, 2008 2:40 PM

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