RE: Re: SQL help needed

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>From: "Mark Richard" <mrichard_at_transurban.com.au>
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>Sent: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:59:41
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>I guess I should have added some criteria like:
>
>1) user_objects must have enough rows in it to
>cover the range (if not
>consider some other table)
>

This one is a very interesting consideration. The use of 'pivot' tables, as in this case, without being something you meet daily is fairly frequent (completing series like here is one usage, otherwise I commonly use them to generate test data). It should be some standard feature, a kind of 'extended dual' (XDUAL ?). Perhaps this (to be run as SYS) should be added as a standard part of the catalogue :

create view xdual
as select rownum from sys.col$;
grant select on xdual to public;
create public synonym xdual for xdual;

sys.col$ always contains a 'respectable' number of rows (10,000+, even without SAP :-)). Although indeed a standard sys.source$ is twice bigger just after install ..

Regards,

Stephane Faroult
Oriole

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