Question about multiple tables and formulas in numbers

I was wondering about having a formula that effects one table based on data in the other table. I have a spreedsheet that i created for work. In column A is a list of addresses. In column B-ZZ is a list of "billing codes" the get applied to the service work done for that address.Its kind of difficult to look at this large spreadsheet on my iphone and edit it on the go. Is there a way to, Have another column, possibly on sheet 2 or something, where i type in these "billing codes" and they would fill an x or some other character in cell that corrisponds with that billing code on that address line? So to be as plain as possible, I want to enter data in one cell (another sheet if possible) and have it "mark" another cell in response to the specific data on that "entry cell." Im thinking this way because instead of scrolling back and fourth on the sheet on my iphone, to "mark" the boxes, i could just navigate to sheet 2 enter the data, or "billing codes" and they would "X" the cell that would match up with the code column and address row. each address row would have a seperate "entry field" in sheet 2, to make the formula easier. thanks for any help

Tom,
That's a lot of columns for jsut a table of marks that reflect an input. Sure, you could have each cell in that giant table check to see if some corresponding cell contains certain text, but that document is going to be slower than you might be able to tolerate.
Jerry

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with
p (messageid, parentmessageid, subject) as
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    select 2002, 2001, 'ngh'    from dual union all
    select 2003, 2001, 'nghj'   from dual union all
    select 2004, 2001, 'pppp'   from dual union all
    select 2005, null, 'hhhhh' from dual union all
    select 2006, 2005, 'hhhhj' from dual
m (thread, messageid) as
    select 1004, 2001           from dual union all
    select 1005, 2006           from dual
select p2.messageid, p2.parentmessageid, p2.subject
from (p p2 left outer join m m2
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;                which gives an "ORA-00918: column ambiguously defined.
I can't figure out why it gives that error. I fail to see the ambiguity.
Thank you for helping,
John.
P.S: In case someone wants to get a good laugh, here is a "solution" that does not have any ambiguity:
with
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    select 2004, 2001, 'pppp'   from dual union all
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messagethread (thread, messageid) as
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    select 1005, 2006           from dual
j1 as
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     from parentchild                     p
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                       on p.parentmessageid = m.messageid
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from j2
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440bx - 11gR2 wrote:
Hi Sven,
>
I guess the explain plan woudl show that there is some strange query rewrite going on. Where the outer join is added later then needed and therefore the columns do not match anymore as it was in the original query.
>
Is there a "hint" that could be used to test that hypothesis ?
John.I tried NO_QUERY_TRANSFORMATION and MATERIALIZE but the error still was there. So it might not be a problem of rewriting the query.
However I checked the explain plan for a similiar query which is working.
sql> with
2    p as ( select 2002 messageid, 2001 parentmessageid, 'ngh' subject   from dual)
3   ,m as ( select 1004 threadx, 2001 messageid2 from dual )
4   ,m3 as ( select * from m)
5 select *
6 from p p2
7 left join m m2 on p2.parentmessageid = m2.messageid2
8 join m3 on m3.messageid2 = p2.messageid
9 ;
no rows selected
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 4005120224
| Id | Operation           | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT    |      |     1 |     2 |     0   (0)|          |
|* 1 | FILTER             |      |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS OUTER|      |     1 |     2 |     6   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    NESTED LOOPS     |      |     1 |       |     4   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     FAST DUAL       |      |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |     FAST DUAL       |      |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 6 |    TABLE ACCESS FULL| DUAL |     1 |     2 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
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   6 - filter(NVL2(ROWID(+),2001,NULL)=2001)
Statistics
          0 recursive calls
          0 db block gets
          0 consistent gets
          0 physical reads
          0 redo size
        357 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
        231 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
          1 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          0 sorts (memory)
          0 sorts (disk)
          0 rows processed
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Question about temporary tables and imports.

Hello everybody.
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Could you specify how you found out that it is coming in as permanent?
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Enter password:
Connected.
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2          (startdate DATE,
3           enddate DATE,
4           class CHAR(20))
5        ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS;
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TEST_GLOBAL                    Y
SQL> select table_name,temporary from user_tables;
TABLE_NAME                     T
DEPT                           N
EMP                            N
BONUS                          N
SALGRADE                       N
TEST_GLOBAL                    Y
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Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Oracle Label Security, OLAP and Data Mining Scoring Engine options
C:\Documents\dbmsdirect\Testing\global>exp
Export: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Feb 20 12:18:45 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Username: scott
Password:
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Oracle Label Security, OLAP and Data Mining Scoring Engine options
Enter array fetch buffer size: 4096 >
Export file: EXPDAT.DMP > test_global
(2)U(sers), or (3)T(ables): (2)U > t
Export table data (yes/no): yes >
Compress extents (yes/no): yes >
Export done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion)
About to export specified tables via Conventional Path ...
Table(T) or Partition(T:P) to be exported: (RETURN to quit) > test_global
. . exporting table                    TEST_GLOBAL
Table(T) or Partition(T:P) to be exported: (RETURN to quit) >
Export terminated successfully without warnings.
C:\Documents\dbmsdirect\Testing\global>sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Feb 20 12:19:50 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
SQL> connect scott
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> drop table test_global purge;
Table dropped.
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Oracle Label Security, OLAP and Data Mining Scoring Engine options
C:\Documents\dbmsdirect\Testing\global>imp
Import: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Feb 20 12:20:19 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Username: scott
Password:
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Oracle Label Security, OLAP and Data Mining Scoring Engine options
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Export file created by EXPORT:V10.02.01 via conventional path
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import server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion)
List contents of import file only (yes/no): no >
Ignore create error due to object existence (yes/no): no >
Import grants (yes/no): yes >
Import table data (yes/no): yes >
Import entire export file (yes/no): no > yes
. importing SCOTT's objects into SCOTT
. importing SCOTT's objects into SCOTT
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SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Feb 20 12:22:44 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
SQL> connect scott
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL>
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EMP                            N
BONUS                          N
SALGRADE                       N
TEST_GLOBAL                    Y
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Commit complete.
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no rows selected
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TEST_GLOBAL                    Y
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total 6
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Question about multiple classes and Linked Lists

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AND ra.fiscal_yr = 11
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AND st.ssid = ss.id'
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WHERE ra.prefix = 8
AND ra.fiscal_yr = 11
AND ss.raid = ra.id
AND st.ssid = ss.id
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RETURN CLOB
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AND ss.raid = ra.id
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Hi
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Hi,
I have a question about clear pages and the reset pagination in an URL. What is the reason why a clear page doesn't also trigger a reset pagination on the pages which are cleared?
I can't really imagine a business case where it makes sense to clear all data of page items on a page and don't reset the pagination of reports on that page which probably use a page item in there where clause...
The drawback of this behavior is that a developer always has to set the reset pagination checkbox when he clears the target page and the even bigger drawback is that if you specify other pages to clear, you can't reset pagination for them, because reset pagination only works for the target page.
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When I call
NameValuePersonalizationObject data = (NameValuePersonalizationObject) PortletRendererUtil.getEditData(portletRenderRequest);
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HI Dimitry,
I dont think you have to synchronize the block. i guess the code is synchronized internally.
regards,
Harsha

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Hello expert,
I have a question about item "type and release" of source system creation.
As we know,when we create a web servie source system,there will display a pop-up which includes three items as "logical system","source system"and "type and release".
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Hello DMK,
Thank you very much for your answer.It is very helpful for me.
Can I ask you further about it?
I got that it is a semantic description item.
You said the default selections are set by our basis people.Would you like to tell me how should we creat a new value except the default ones for item "type and release"?Only by inputing the value in the item directly?But you see we canot see the new value item we created by ourself when we push "F4" button next time ,is that ok?Or do we have to ask basis people to define one new value item just like the default seletions before we use it.
Also if possible would you like to describe detail about "This becomes important when you are troubleshooting certain issues especially when RFC connection problems."
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Maggie
Message was edited by: Maggie

A few questions about the ka790gx and dka790gx

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It's largely irrelevant what other boards had VRM issues other than the KA790GX - the fact is it died at stock settings. Since there is little cost difference between the more robust DKA790GX (or Platinum if you really need 1394) why bother with the proven weakling? There are other examples around of the KA not having a robust power section. There's no way I would use even a 95W TDP CPU in the KA and absolutely not O/C.....!
As for the credentials of Custom PC, I have generally found their reviews accurate and balanced, and echo my own findings where applicable. If a little too infrequent.
The fact that the KA has such a huge VRM heatsink leads me to my other comments on the Forum, particularly regarding the "fudge" aspect:
"""Henry is spot on - the notion that adding a heatsink to the top of the D2PAK or whatever MOSFETS is effective is virtually worthless. The device's die thermal junction is the tab on the device back - which is always against the PCB pad. The majority of heat is therefore dissipated in to the board, and the fact that the epoxy plastic encapsulation gets hot is simply due to the inability of the heat to be conducted away from the device die via the tab. Not sure when Epoxy become an effective conductor of heat.... Good practice is to increase the size of the PCB pad (or "land" in American) such that the enlarged PCB copper area acts as an adequate heatsink. This is still not as effective as clamping a power device tab to an actual piece of ali or copper, but since the devices used are SMD devices, this is not possible. However, the surface area required to provide sufficient PCB copper area to act as a heatsink for several devices isn't available in the current motherboard layouts. Where industrial SBC designs differ in this respect is to place the VRM MOSFETs on the back of the PCB on very enlarged PCB pads - where real estate for components is not an issue.
Gigabyte's UD3 2oz copper mainboards sound like a good idea, on the face of it. However, without knowing how they have connected the device tabs to where and what remains a mystery. I suspect it is more hype than solution, although there will be some positive effect. From an electrical perspective, having lower resistance connecting whatever to whatever (probably just a 0V plane) is no bad thing.
The way the likes of ASUS sort of get round the problem is to increase the sheer number of MOSFET devices and effectively spread the heat dissipation over a larger physical area. This works to a degree, there is the same amount of heat being dissipated, but over several more square inches. The other advantage of this is that each leg of the VRM circuit passes less current and therefore localised heat is reduced. Remember that as well as absolute peak operating temperature causing reduced component life, thermal cycling stresses the mechanical aspects of components (die wire bonds for example) as well as the solder joints on the board. Keeping components at a relatively constant temperature, even if this is high (but within operating temperature limits), is a means of promoting longevity.
For myself, the first thing I do with a seperate VRM heatsink is take it off and use a quiet fan to blow air on to the VRM area of the PCB - this is where the heat is. This has the added benefit of actively cooling the inductors and capacitors too....
Cooling the epoxy component body is a fudge. If the epoxy (and thus any heatsink plonked on top of it) is running at 60C, the component die is way above that.....
It's better than nothing, but only just."""

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