Merge Vs Looping

Hi,
Following are my table structure.
Table Name : CODE
ID, Code, Level, Details [ Note : ID is Auto generated by sequence]
I have a job that runs everyday to hit the remote view to pull the data into CODE table. View structure and Sample data in the remote view as follows
Structure : Level0_Code, Level1_Code, Level2_Code , Program
Sample Data : 'AA1234', 'XX1234','Zinc1543', MU
I want to insert the the above row into CODE table as follows.
1, AA1234, Level0,MU
2, XX1234, Level1, MU
3, Zinc1543, Level2, MU
The remote view will have 50000 rows. Is it possible to do this using Merge clause b/w Remote view and my table? If yes could you please show me some sample.
I definitely know this can be done with the help of Looping technique.

A beautiful use of UNPIVOT Etbin, and a very nice solution. I need to remember and use PIVOT/UNPIVOT.
Unfortunately the original poster says the version is Oracle 10g, and UNPIVOT was introduced in Oracle 11.1
The (more clumsy) Oracle 10.2 version is
select seq_id.nextval, q.* from
(select CASE p.lvl when 1 then level0_code when 2 then level1_code when 3 then level2_code end as code
     , CASE p.lvl when 1 then 'Level0' when 2 then 'Level1' when 3 then 'Level2' end as lev
     , program
from (select 'AA1234' level0_code,
               'XX1234' level1_code,
               'Zinc1543' level2_code,
               'MU' program
          from dual
       ) src
   cross join (select level lvl from dual connect by level <= 3) p
order by level0_code, level1_code, level2_code, program
) qThe (select level lvl from dual connect by level <= 3) generates numbers 1,2,3 to use to pick out the level0, level1 and level2 codes respectively.
If you want the ID's from a single row sequential, you will need an "order by" - otherwise the query could come out with all rows for level0 followed by all rows for level1 etc. If you don't mind the order then you can omit the outer select and the order by.
regards,
David

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