No repeated values and in ascendant sort

Hi all,
I'm trying to put this:
SELECT DISTINCT month FROM Concert ORDER BY month ASC;
(no repeated values and in ascendant sort) into EJB-QL. This is what I've worked out:
SELECT DISTINCT OBJECT(o)
FROM Concert AS o
ORDER BY o.month ASC
(month is a field in the bean )
But this (and several tries later) doesn't work.
What's wrong with it??
The query is for a findAll method -without- input parameters which returns a collection, is here the error??? If so, how can I solve it?
I'm totally lost and frustrated, I'd really appreciate some light
Thanks a lot in advance

Your query is currect if table name and attribute name are currect.
Can you write what type of error is comming?

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Hi
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Test Data
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5001              901            634774.00    256.00000                 50                       746
                                                                                10                       456
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I would like to know how i can create a bell graph with out using sub VIs, the data that i created consists in 500 readings with values of 0 to 100, i calculated the mean value and standard diviation. I hope some one can help me

Here's a quick example I threw together that generates a sort-of-bell-curve shaped data distribution, then performs the binning and plotting.
-Kevin P.
Message Edited by Kevin Price on 12-01-2006 02:42 PM
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10
1
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A4 2
A5 2
A6 3
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I have a report with a lot of formulas - depending on certain values in a certain Oracle database table values are summed up.
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PL/SQL Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
"CORE     11.1.0.7.0     Production"
TNS for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
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Mike.

Hi Mike,
Your query is OK and I don't reproduce on versions 10.2.0.5 and 11.2.0.2, so unless you're not telling us everything it must be a bug in your version.
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             Xmlforest(Question_Nbr As "QuestionNumber"
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                     , Question_Asked As "QuestionAsked"
                     , Question_Ans as "QuestionAnswer")
            ) Order By Id
        ) QT
From (
...Alternatively, a single XQuery should do the job too :
SQL> SELECT XMLSerialize(document qt as clob indent) qt
2 FROM XMLTable(
3 '<Questionaire>
4   {
5     for $i at $qn in $qst/Test/Questions/question
6       , $j at $rn in $res/Results/question
7     where $rn = $qn
8     return element Questions {
9       element QuestionNumber {data($j/nbr)}
10     , element QuestionType   {data($i/type)}
11     , element QuestionAsked {data($i/asked)}
12     , element QuestionAnswer {data($j/ans)}
13     }
14   }
15   </Questionaire>'
16    passing xmltype('<Test>
17   <Questions>
18    <question><type>general</type><asked>Are you ok</asked></question>
19    <question><type>specific</type><asked>Do you know why not working</asked></question>
20   </Questions>
21 </Test>') as "qst"
22 , xmltype('<Results>
23   <question><nbr>1</nbr><ans>Yes</ans></question>
24   <question><nbr>2</nbr><ans>No</ans></question>
25 </Results>') as "res"
26 columns qt xmltype path '.'
27 );
QT
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<Questions>
    <QuestionNumber>1</QuestionNumber>
    <QuestionType>general</QuestionType>
    <QuestionAsked>Are you ok</QuestionAsked>
    <QuestionAnswer>Yes</QuestionAnswer>
</Questions>
<Questions>
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    <QuestionAnswer>No</QuestionAnswer>
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Hi I am trying to write a spread sheet to calculate the cost of repairing stock items. I cant figure out how to make the code = the cost, so that if somone types Hx3+Tx2+rx1 it would = £8
Which would mean: 3 x Hooks need replacing 2 x Tabs need replacing and 1 5cm rip needs repairing.
SO I have made one table with the codes and the values and one table for the items and their various panels that may need repairing but I cant figure out how to make it work...?
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=VLOOKUP(LEFT(B2,SEARCH("x",B2,)-1),Price List :: B:C,2,FALSE)*MID(B2,SEARCH("x",B2,)+1,1)
The result above gives the cost for repairing the large rip in B2
Next, if there is more than one type of repair to be done, the process above must be repeated with a new twist: This time we're looking for the second repair item in B2. The marker is a space, so we'll need to add a SEARCH for the first space, and use that as the starting point for both SEARCH functions in this section.
Then the whole process (with another SEARCH added to each set) must be repeated for the third (possible) code and number in the cell.
Repeat 7 for as many items as could be included in this cell.
We don't know how many items will be recorded in each cell, so we have to allow for a maximum and provide some means of making the formula quit when there's nothing more to be done. This could be an IF, depending on the count of "x" or " " in the cell, or an IFERROR that would trap the error caused by searching beyond the last space. Whatever we used would need to be added to each iteration of the last formula shown above.
As you can see, this quickly becomes a bit unwieldy, and a reason for my earlier suggestion to set up pairs of columns for each repair item.
Regards,
Barry

No repeated values and in ascendant sort

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