Help with like in sql

Hi all,
I am having an issue with like statement with full text search
My data : BEAN PEELER
SQL STATEMENT: Select * from table where col1 like '%[^a-z]peeler[^a-z]%'
doesn't give all the results which has peeler in it (for example the above example)
instead if i use this statement
Select * from table where col1 like '%peeler%' it returns all the rows.
But, i need to check the exact word search and not subset of it.
My problem is how is my query able to detect few rows which has peeler in it but not all? please help

so did you try this?
declare @tab table(
val varchar(50));
insert into @tab values
('BEAN PEELER'),
('PEELERRRRR'),
('SOMPEERLER');
Select * from @tab where val like 'peeler' or VAL like '% Peeler %' or val like '% Peeler'
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Let's focus on your delivery dates and javascript for now.
Why you would put your javascript in htp.p calls in a plsql region is quite beyond me. When you edit the page there is a javascript region where you can put global variables and functions, an excellent spot for this then, and a lot more maintainable than this.
Now it's also obvious that your query on pending items will return more than one record. So, using a report would serve you well in this case. However, using code like this:
document.getElementById("daysBox").innerHTML = days;
document.getElementById("hoursBox").innerHTML = hours;
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document.getElementById("secsBox").innerHTML = seconds;will not serve you. getElementById is meant to return one element uniquely identified by an ID. If you have a report with multiple rows, and elements on each row with the same ID, you are doing something wrong. You would need the delivery date per row, and I guess that you put out your code with htp.p because you do not know how to deal with that and passing it in to the javascript procedure.
But wouldn't it be more oppurtune for you to simply create a report with a source sql where you calculate each part of the date, and then refresh this region with a certain interval. If you'd refresh every 5 minutes, wouldn't that be more than fast enough to keep track of things? Don't forget, refreshing a region will execute the sql again.
It's not that you can't accomplish a multirecord report with a countdown per row, but are you comfortable enough with javascript and jquery to code and maintain that versus leveraging plsql and dynamic actions (there is even a dynamic action timer plugin provided by oracle)?

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Welcome to the forum!
Thanks for posting the CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements; that's very helpful!
Whenever you have a question, also post the results you want to get from the sample data your posted.
Always say what version of Oracle you're suing.
In the sample data you posted, I only see one row in each table. Does that really give a good picture of the problem? If the problem involves going up the chain of command 1, 2, 3 or more levels, then shouldn't you have a chain of at least 3 people to show the problem and test the results?
I think what you need is CONNECT BY Query , which works on a table with a parent-child relationship. Given a parent, you can find that ow's children, the children's children, their children, and so on, however many generations there are.
I don't think I can demonstrate this with your sample data, so I'll use the scott.emp table, whcih you should be able to query.
The emp table contains a hierarcy of employees, including this data:
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KING                  7839                  5000 PRESIDENT
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         ADAMS        7876       7788       1100 CLERK
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         SMITH        7369       7902        800 CLERK
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      WARD            7521       7698       1250 SALESMAN
      MARTIN          7654       7698       1250 SALESMAN
      TURNER          7844       7698       1500 SALESMAN
      JAMES           7900       7698        950 CLERK
   CLARK              7782       7839       2450 MANAGER
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JONES (empno=7566) does have a boss (mgr=7839), namely KING.
SCOTT (empno=7788) has a bos (mgr=7566), who is JONES.
I got the results above using this CONNECT BY query:
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In your probelm, you want to do a Bottom-Up Query ; given a child, you want to see if its parent has a certain level of authority. If not, you need to look at that parent's parent, and keep going until to either reach someone with the right qualifications, or you reach the end of the chain of command.
That's similar to this problem: given a set of employees in scott.emp (say, everyone with job='CLERK') we want to find their closest ancestor who has a sal of 3000 or more. Look at the data above: you can see that SMITH is a CLERK, and SMITH'S boss, FORD, has sal=3000, so we want a row of output that shows SMITH and FORD.
For a different example, looks at MILLER. MILLER's boss, CLARK, only has sal=2450, so we need to look at CLARK's boss, KING.
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SMITH      FORD                 1
ADAMS      SCOTT                1
JAMES      KING                 2
MILLER     KING                 2You should be all set to write the query now.
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I hope this makes sense, but I don't think I have explained it very well!!
Any help will be gratefully recieved!!
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I understand why you are having trouble - my own brain started to hurt looking at your questions :)
First off, database types are not records. They can act like records but are "objects" with different characterstics.
You can create a record in PL/SQL but the "type" is of RECORD. You created an OBJECT as BODY_PERSON_RECORD_TYPE.
I don't use database types unless I really need them, such as for working with pipelined functions.
-- QUESTION 1
-- The above works fine, but in my real example there are a lot more fields
-- Why cant I set the local record to the value of the cursor record like this below..
local_person := select_person_rec; local_person is set to the (misnamed) BODY_PERSON_RECORD_TYPE, while SELECT_PERSON_REC is anchored to the cursor and is a RECORD of SELECT_PERSON%ROWTYPE with a field for each column selected in the query. Different types, not compatible.
You should be able to manually assign the object items one by one as object.attribute := record.field one field at a time.
-- QUESTION 2
--Also how do you update an existing record within the original object, I have tried the following but it does not workCheck the on-line documentation for the syntax. You'll probably have to reference the actual value through the table; this is one reason why I don't work with nested tables - the syntax to do things like updates is much more complex.

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                                              test_tpo.t_objective_id,
                                              tp.is_credit_based
                + fn_tp_obj_comp_opt_act_cdt (test_lp.lp_person_id,
                                              tp.tplan_id,
                                              test_tpo.t_objective_id,
                                              tp.is_credit_based
               ) completed_activities,test_tpo.required_credits,lr.learning_record_id,lr.catalog_item_name,lr.catalog_item_type
          FROM test_learning_plan test_lp,
               test_training_plan tp,
               test_person test_cp,
               test_org_person test_op,test_tp_learning_activity test_tplplr,
               test_tp_objective test_tpo,test_learning_record lr,test_train_obj_activity tpobjact
         WHERE test_lp.lp_person_id = '1862188559'
           AND test_cp.person_id = test_lp.lp_person_id
           AND tp.tplan_id = 'tplan200811200632352287621599'
           AND test_tpo.t_objective_id = tpobjact.t_objective_id
           AND test_lp.LP_CATALOG_HIST_ID = tp.tplan_id
           AND test_tplplr.tp_lp_lr_id =test_lp.learning_plan_id
           AND test_tplplr.activity_lp_lr_id = lr.learning_record_id
           AND lr.LR_CATALOG_HISTORY_ID = tpobjact.activity_id
           AND test_op.o_person_id = test_cp.person_id
           AND test_tpo.tplan_id = tp.tplan_id)
If we see the outer SELECT ---then one of the main issues is for EACH t_objective_id----->There are n learning_record_ids.
But,this select only shows 1 learning_record_id for each objective_id which is wrong.
Similarly,the data displayed isnot proper.
Below is the way I am getting the data now from the above SELECT.
Note:- FIRSTNAME is not correctly displayed.
FIRSTNAME     EMPLID     TPLAN_NAME     TPLAN_ID     ACTIVITIES     ACTIVITIES_1
                  001                TP1          tplan1          5          5
TESTNAME                                              tplan1           5
Continuation of the other columns of the same rows--**couldnt paste it properly so.
T_OBJECTIVE_ID     COMPLETED_ACTIVITIES     REQUIRED_CREDITS     LEARNING_RECORD_ID        CATALOG_ITEM_NAME     CATALOG_ITEM_TYPE
          obj1               1                         5                         lr1                            C1                          Course
                obj2               4                        4

Something like this might solve your problem ->
satyaki>
satyaki>select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE    10.2.0.1.0      Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>select * from emp;
     EMPNO ENAME      JOB              MGR HIREDATE         SAL       COMM     DEPTNO
      7521 WARD       SALESMAN        7698 22-FEB-81     226.88        500         30
      7654 MARTIN     SALESMAN        7698 28-SEP-81       1815       1400         30
      7788 SCOTT      ANALYST         7566 19-APR-87     598.95                    20
      7839 KING       PRESIDENT            17-NOV-81       7260                    10
      7844 TURNER     SALESMAN        7698 08-SEP-81       2178          0         30
      7876 ADAMS      CLERK           7788 23-MAY-87     159.72                    20
      7900 JAMES      CLERK           7698 03-DEC-81     1379.4                    30
      7902 FORD       ANALYST         7566 03-DEC-81    5270.76                    20
      7934 MILLER     CLERK           7782 23-JAN-82     1887.6                    10
      7566 Smith      Manager         7839 23-JAN-82       1848          0         10
      7698 Glen       Manager         7839 23-JAN-82       1848          0         10
     EMPNO ENAME      JOB              MGR HIREDATE         SAL       COMM     DEPTNO
      7599 BILLY      ANALYST         7566 10-JUN-09       4500                    30
12 rows selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>select decode(lag(job,1,null) over(order by job),'CLERK','CK',
2                                                   'SALESMAN', 'SM',
3                                                   'ANALYST','AL',
4                                                   'BO') res
5 from emp;
RE
BO
AL
AL
AL
CK
CK
CK
BO
BO
BO
SM
RE
SM
12 rows selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.01
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>select MAX(decode(lag(job,1,null) over(order by job),'CLERK','CK',
2                                                   'SALESMAN', 'SM',
3                                                   'ANALYST','AL',
4                                                   'BO')) res
5 from emp;
select MAX(decode(lag(job,1,null) over(order by job),'CLERK','CK',
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-30483: window functions are not allowed here
Elapsed: 00:00:00.01
satyaki>
satyaki>select MAX(res)
2 from (
3          select decode(lag(job,1,null) over(order by job),'CLERK','CK',
4                                                           'SALESMAN', 'SM',
5                                                           'ANALYST','AL',
6                                                           'BO') res
7          from emp
8     );
MA
SM
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
satyaki>
satyaki>Regards.
Satyaki De.

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SELECT
a.AccountID,
a.BlahBlahBlah, -- Any other fields you want from the Activities table
h.LastComment
FROM Activities AS a
LEFT OUTER JOIN History AS h ON a.AccountID = h.AccountID
WHERE (a.ActivityDate BETWEEN GetDate() AND DateAdd(dd, 240, GetDate()))
AND h.HistoryID IN (
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     FROM History
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Please do not ask homework questions without having at least attempted to answer them yourself first and show where you're struggling.

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Greetings,
I want to create a dynamic union using all the databases on server. The following works:
declare @sqlvarchar(max)
select
@sql=IsNull(@sql+'union
all ','')+'select
* from '+name+'.[dbo].[A]''
inner join '+name+'.[dbo].[B]'' on
a.f1=b.f1'
from
sys.databases
where
name
in(select
name
from
sys.databases)
exec
(@sql)
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David http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/

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hi iam preparing for 1z0-001 exam..iam not able to figure out this .plz help
Which line in the following PL/SQL block will raise an exception?
1 TYPE emp_typ is RECORD (
emp_no VARCHAR2(20),
name scott.emp.name%TYPE);
2 emp_rec emp%ROWTYPE;
3 BEGIN
4 SELECT * INTO emp_rec FROM emp
WHERE emp_no=12;
5 emp_rec.emp_no := emp_seq.nextval;
6 INSERT INTO emp VALUES (emp_rec);
7 END;
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
3. Line 4
4. Line 6
ans:D. sybex text book
how is it possible??/
thank u
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2. fine.
3. fine.
4. fine.
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I am trying to create a dynamic pl/sql lov in Oracle Apex 3.2 on 11g. I am having some issues with the syntax of the statements below and I'd appreciate any suggestions.
DECLARE
BEGIN
IF :p3_current_a_workshop != 0 THEN
RETURN
'select distinct workshop_title ||': ' || presenter_name ||'    $'|| workshop_fee display_value, workshop_id return_value
from WORKSHOP
where session_time = 'A'
and workshop_status = 'Open'
or workshop_id = :p3_current_a_workshop
order by 1';
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RETURN
'select distinct workshop_title ||': ' || presenter_name ||'    $'|| workshop_fee display_value, workshop_id return_value
from WORKSHOP
where session_time = 'A'
and workshop_status = 'Open'
order by 1';
END IF;
EXCEPTION
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            HTP.PRN('ERROR'||SQLERRM);
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A function that returns a SQL query with two columns:
IF :MY_ITEM='10' THEN
RETURN
'SELECT ename, empno
FROM emp
WHERE depno = 10
ORDER BY 1';
ELSE
RETURN
'SELECT ename, empno
FROM emp
WHERE depno = :my_item
ORDER BY 1';
END IF;~Andrew Schultz

Hi Andrew,
Try something like:
DECLARE
BEGIN
IF :p3_current_a_workshop != 0 THEN
RETURN
' select distinct workshop_title ||'': '' || presenter_name ||''    $''|| workshop_fee display_value, workshop_id return_value '||
' from WORKSHOP '||
' where session_time = ''A'' '||
' and workshop_status = ''Open'' '||
' or workshop_id = :p3_current_a_workshop '||
' order by 1 ';
ELSE
RETURN
' select distinct workshop_title ||'': '' || presenter_name ||''    $''|| workshop_fee display_value, workshop_id return_value '||
' from WORKSHOP '||
' where session_time = ''A'' '||
' and workshop_status = ''Open'' '||
' order by 1 ';
END IF;
EXCEPTION
        WHEN OTHERS THEN
            HTP.PRN('ERROR'||SQLERRM);
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