HELP - Where statement to look for Sting

Question

I want to update the where clasue to include multiple metadata types. We have action-acct and fail-acct
select a.account_number b.metadata
from accounts a, data b
WHERE 'disable-acct'= B.metadata(+)
is this correct?
select a.account_number b.metadata
from accounts a, data b
WHERE 'disable-acct'= B.metadata(+) or
'action-acct' = B.metadata(+)

Answer 1

user607303 wrote:
that does not return any values. I think that statement is looking for the presence of both Police and Dune. It should be something closer to either Police or Dune. Ah, an OP with a sense of humour, that's good. :)
My query had the or clause but it generates an error for outerjoins.It will...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  with accounts as (select 1 as account_number from dual union all
  2                    select 2 as account_number from dual)
  3      ,data as (select 'disable-acct' as metadata from dual)
  4  select a.account_number, b.metadata
  5  from accounts a, data b
  6  where 'disable-acct' = b.metadata(+)
  7* or 'action-acct' = b.metadata(+)
SQL> /
or 'action-acct' = b.metadata(+)
ERROR at line 7:
ORA-01719: outer join operator (+) not allowed in operand of OR or IN
SQL>But if you use ANSI syntax...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  with accounts as (select 1 as account_number from dual union all
  2                    select 2 as account_number from dual)
  3      ,data as (select 'disable-acct' as metadata from dual)
  4  select a.account_number, b.metadata
  5* from accounts a left outer join data b on (b.metadata in ('disable-acct','action-acct'))
SQL> /
ACCOUNT_NUMBER METADATA
             1 disable-acct
             2 disable-acctor
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  with accounts as (select 1 as account_number from dual union all
  2                    select 2 as account_number from dual)
  3      ,data as (select 'disable-acct' as metadata from dual)
  4  select a.account_number, b.metadata
  5* from accounts a left outer join data b on (b.metadata = 'disable-acct' or b.metadata = 'action-acct')
SQL> /
ACCOUNT_NUMBER METADATA
             1 disable-acct
             2 disable-acctAlthough I'm not sure what your query is trying to achieve from what little you posted.