Join String to Column in Query

Hi
I have a column in a query I would like to join a string so that the value from the column always has a descriptor at the end like this:
1.5 "Yards"
2.5 "Yards"
I don't mean:
column AS "Yards"
The value in the column changes length so I want to try and have this descriptor so that when I put it in a report the changing value length does not overwrite a seperate text field in the report.
the column is a float value and I want to join the string to it.
Thanks for any input on how to do this

Hi
Sorry I think we have wires crossed
so say I have this:
select columnA
from table A
and It returns this:
columnA
======
123
456
789
.What I want is for it to show this:
columnA
======
123 Yards
456 Yards
789 Yards
. Yards
. Yards
. Yards
. Yards
. YardsSo for ever value returned I want to have the string value "Yards" on the end; column A is a float.
Thanks

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you're getting back
what you're *assuming* you're getting back.
The second thing you should do is lose the SELECT *. Specify
the columns
you want back. This is nothing to do with CF, it's just
standard SELECT
query advice. When you're joining tables, you hardly ever
want ALL the
columns back, and if it's one of those rare occasions you DO
want all of
them, you should still specify a SELECT clause so you can
distinguish
between same-named columns (which seems to be your problem
here).
Adam

Pl sql join and selecting columns from join."t"."c": invalid at debug time

I noticed the error at cc.Country that is shown because cc is not yet there at compile time (got that
from searching this forum).
Isnt that a bit weak of oracle sql developer that it doesnt compile from the outside to the inside /core but
rather form top to bottom?
Am I right with my conclusion? If so, how to do it otherwise i.e. specifying that cc.country is
a column from countrycodes joined with table6 ?
SELECT DISTINCT 0,
2,
SUBSTR('metable', 0, 1) || '_ABC',
'ABC_' || 'metable',
'ABC ' ||cc.Country ,
'+'
FROM table6
LEFT JOIN COUNTRYCODE cc
ON cc.Code = metable
WHERE metable IS NOT NULL
AND metable <> ''

metalray wrote:
hi Boneist
thanks for your reply
its in a plsql procedure (10g). well as you see cc is the alias
of the table COUNTRYCODE. which does exists. the error is at 'ABC ' ||cc.Country'
telling me"PL/SQL: ORA-01747: invalid user.table.column,..."
when I put COUNTRYCODE next to table6 in the FROM it works but thats not what I want
since I want to join both tables not just select from both.Can you give us your exact code and exact error message.
I'm not finding any problem with using alias names in the query..
SQL> select d.dname
2        ,'EMPNAME : '||e.ename
3 from dept d LEFT JOIN emp e ON e.deptno = d.deptno;
DNAME          'EMPNAME:'||E.ENAME
RESEARCH       EMPNAME : SMITH
SALES          EMPNAME : ALLEN
SALES          EMPNAME : WARD
RESEARCH       EMPNAME : JONES
SALES          EMPNAME : MARTIN
SALES          EMPNAME : BLAKE
ACCOUNTING     EMPNAME : CLARK
RESEARCH       EMPNAME : SCOTT
ACCOUNTING     EMPNAME : KING
SALES          EMPNAME : TURNER
RESEARCH       EMPNAME : ADAMS
SALES          EMPNAME : JAMES
RESEARCH       EMPNAME : FORD
ACCOUNTING     EMPNAME : MILLER
OPERATIONS     EMPNAME :
15 rows selected.
SQL>

Substitution strings in chart sql query

Hi Guys,
I am creating line charts and bar charts based on a query in HTML DB 1.5. I am using substitution strings in the query. Though I can use substitution strings in the line chart, I cannot do it in the bar chart. I am using almost the same sql query in both line and bar charts.
The sql query in line chart is
SELECT null, TO_CHAR(t1.extract_date, 'W-MON-YYYY') extractdate,
MIN_OF_AVERAGES(AVG(&P40_METRICS.),:P40_REGION_LIST,:P40_SUBREGION_LIST,NULL,:P40_METRICS,'ind') orgid
FROM ind t1,geography t2
WHERE t1.country_id = t2.country_id(+)
AND t2.region_name like
DECODE(:P40_REGION_LIST,'ALL REGIONS','%',:P40_REGION_LIST)
AND t2.subregion_name like
NVL(:P40_SUBREGION_LIST,'%')
GROUP BY TO_CHAR(extract_date, 'W-MON-YYYY')
order by to_date(extractdate,'DD-MON-YY')
The sql query in bar chart is
SELECT null, TO_CHAR(t1.extract_date, 'W-MON-YYYY') extractdate,AVG(&P40_METRICS.) orgid
FROM ind t1,geography t2
WHERE t1.country_id = t2.country_id(+)
AND t2.region_name like
DECODE(:P40_REGION_LIST,'ALL REGIONS','%',:P40_REGION_LIST)
AND t2.subregion_name like
NVL(:P40_SUBREGION_LIST,'%')
GROUP BY TO_CHAR(extract_date, 'W-MON-YYYY')
order by to_date(extractdate,'DD-MON-YY')
The min_of_averages function in the line chart query is some function I am calling. Even if I cut-paste the line chart query in the bar chart I get the error.
The substitution string which is giving the problem is "&P40_METRICS."
The error I am getting is
Query cannot be parsed, please check the syntax of your query. (ORA-00909: invalid number of arguments)
The only difference I see is that line chart query is inside a series and bar chart is not, does this make a difference??? Or is it because I am using the substitution string in choosing the column??? Please help!!!!
Thanks,
Swaroop

Swaroop,
You might be using an HTML bar chart and an SVG line chart, I can't tell, but their implementations differ. You won't be able to use a substitution string to replace a column name in the query in the situation you found, you'd have to figure out a way to construct the query string before it gets executed and I'm not sure the chart pages will let you do that.
Scott

Join hint ignored - very bad query plan results

I'm trying to get a query that's being generated by SSAS to perform acceptably. Because this query is (at least partially) generated by SSAS, I don't have complete control over the query text.
The problem - The query looks roughly like this:
select
-- a bunch of columns
from
T1 -- table with ~40,000,000 rows
inner loop join T2 on T2.t2id = T1.t2id -- table with ~16,000 rows
inner loop join T3 on T3.t3id = T1.t3id -- table with ~200,000 rows inner loop join T4 on T4.t4id = T1.t4id -- table with ~200,000 rows
left loop join T5 on T5.t3id = T1.t3id and T5.t6id = T4.t6id -- table with 0 rows
where
-- some uninteresting conditions
T1 is a Fact (or Measure) table, T2, T3 and T4 are Dimension tables, T5 and T6 are involved in the filtering of the query. Every row of T1 WILL match exactly one row in each of T1, T2 and T3.
You'll note that I've hinted all of the joins - according to the documentation, using join hints forces join order (which is consistent with the plan that's produced). There's no mention that join hints can be transparently ignored by the optimizer,
but that seems to be precisely what's happening.
In the plan that results, the join to T4 is done as a hash join, with T1*T2*T3 (40,000,000 rows) on the "top", so it ends up trying to build a hash table with 40,000,000 rows, resulting in very high tempdb activity and very poor performance (I
don't know how poor - I've never let it finish).
I can see part of the reason why it's making this join choice - the estimate of T1*T2*T3 is only 35,000 rows, even though T1 has 40,000,000 rows and the join will hit on every row.
Questions:
1. What can I do to the query or the database to improve the estimate on the join to T3?
2. What can I do to the query to force the optimizer to use a loop join like I asked?
Version is SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Developer Edition X64.
OS is Windows 2008 R2
Machine is dual-quad-hyper-threaded CPU with 96Gb of RAM and several Tb of disk spread over 8 spindles and SSDs.
I've seen this query perform well before - I've been tuning this query for going on 7 years now and I've never seen it perform this badly that I can recall. Not sure if it's something that's changed in SP2, or something about the distribution
of data in this particular database that's changed, but something's sure changed.
-cd Mark the best replies as answers!

That would indicate that there are no foreign-key constraints, or if they, they are not trusted. (Assuming here that there WHERE clause includes no filter on T1.)
That, or the statistics on T1 are giving a completely wrong estimates for the number of NULL values in t2id and t3id.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]
Thanks, Erland.
There are foreign key constraints, but they're NOCHECK. I've tried creating and updating statistics on various columns of the tables involved - I'll re-check that I've got up to date statistics on all of the columns involved in these joins.
What about the join-hint being ignored? Is there anything I can do, or has something changed here recently? Interestingly, when I run this query from SSMS, I get loop-joins all around, but when SSAS runs the query, the one join always comes out
a hash join. Before I added the hints, all joins were hash joins - the hints worked on all joins but the one.
-cd Mark the best replies as answers!

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