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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: ugly sql contest entry / Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2001, Number 333
Is that the best you can do? ;)
I recall something from the list many years ago where a poster was asking for help with a SQL statement that was unbelievably long.
If I recollect correctly, it was about a 64K single SQL statement.
It doesn't seem like maintaining something like that would actually be possible.
Think of what the explain plan output would look like.
Jared
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ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2001,
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to ORACLE-L
1 UPDATE
2 TRIO_STUDENT_MASTERF00S01part5 T
3 SET
4 (
5 T.T08_STUDENT_RACE_ETHNICITY
6 )
7 = (
10 decode( X.STU_ETH_CODE, 11 'D', '0', /* Declined to State */ 12 '8', '0', /* Other (Not Listed) (10/8/1999 ??) */ 13 '9', '0', /* No Response */ 14 '1', '1', /* American Indian/ Native American */ 15 '2', '3', /* Black/ African American */ 16 '3', '4', /* Chicano/ Mexican American */ 17 '4', '4', /* Other Hispanic (Not Listed) */ 18 'A', '4', /* Central American */ 19 'B', '4', /* South American */ 20 'P', '4', /* Puerto Rican */ 21 'Q', '4', /* Cuban */ 22 '5', '2', /* Other Asian */ 23 'C', '2', /* Chinese */ 24 'J', '2', /* Japanese */ 25 'K', '2', /* Korean */ 26 'L', '2', /* Laotian */ 27 'M', '2', /* Cambodian */ 28 'R', '2', /* Asian Indian */ 29 'S', '2', /* Other Southeast Asian */ 30 'T', '2', /* Thai */ 31 'V', '2', /* Vietnamese */ 32 '6', '6', /* Other Pacific Islander (new 10/8/1999) */ 33 'F', '6', /* Filipino "" */ 34 'G', '6', /* Guamanian "" */ 35 'H', '6', /* Hawaiian "" */ 36 'N', '6', /* Samoan "" */ 37 '7', '5', /* White/ Caucasian */ 38 decode( Z.STU_ETH_CODE, 39 'D', '0', /* Declined to State
*/
40 '8', '0', /* Other (Not Listed) (10/8/1999 ??) */ 41 '9', '0', /* No Response
*/
42 '1', '1', /* American Indian/ Native American */ 43 '2', '3', /* Black/ African American
*/
44 '3', '4', /* Chicano/ Mexican American
*/
45 '4', '4', /* Other Hispanic (Not Listed)
*/
46 'A', '4', /* Central American
*/
47 'B', '4', /* South American
*/
48 'P', '4', /* Puerto Rican
*/
49 'Q', '4', /* Cuban
*/
50 '5', '2', /* Other Asian
*/
51 'C', '2', /* Chinese
*/
52 'J', '2', /* Japanese
*/
53 'K', '2', /* Korean
*/
54 'L', '2', /* Laotian
*/
55 'M', '2', /* Cambodian
*/
56 'R', '2', /* Asian Indian
*/
57 'S', '2', /* Other Southeast Asian
*/
58 'T', '2', /* Thai
*/
59 'V', '2', /* Vietnamese
*/
60 '6', '6', /* Other Pacific Islander (new 10/8/1999) */ 61 'F', '6', /* Filipino "" */ 62 'G', '6', /* Guamanian "" */ 63 'H', '6', /* Hawaiian "" */ 64 'N', '6', /* Samoan "" */ 65 '7', '5', /* White/ Caucasian
*/
66 '*** no/bad data ***' 67 ) 68 ), 69 '1', '1', 70 '2', '2', 71 '3', '3', 72 '4', '4', 73 '5', '5', 74 '6', '6',
77 decode( t.student_ssn, 78 '[several deleted]', '5',
...
101 'x' 102 ), 103 '*'
106 TRIO_STUDENT_MASTERF00S01part5 T2, 107 SIS_CSUS_ALL_spring2001_eos1 X, 108 SIS_CSUS_ALL_fall_2000_eos1 Z 109 WHERE 110 T.STUDENT_SSN = T2.STUDENT_SSN 111 AND 112 T2.STUDENT_SSN = X.STU_ID (+) 113 AND 114 T2.STUDENT_SSN = Z.STU_ID (+)115 )
117 T.T08_STUDENT_RACE_ETHNICITY = '-' 118 AND 119 T.STUDENT_SSN IN 120 ( 121 SELECT 122 T3.STUDENT_SSN 123 FROM 124 TRIO_STUDENT_MASTERF00S01part5 T3 125 WHERE 126 T3.T08_STUDENT_RACE_ETHNICITY = '-' 127* )
79 rows updated.
Commit complete.
COUNT(*) T
--------- -
4 0
6 1
9 2
28 3
29 4
124 5
3 6
1 7
---------
204
8 rows selected.
1 select
2 count(*), 3 T.T08_STUDENT_RACE_ETHNICITY 4 from 5 TRIO_STUDENT_MASTERF00S01part5 T 6 group by 7* T.T08_STUDENT_RACE_ETHNICITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------
On 7 Dec 2001, at 15:27, Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
> > I think ugly SQL is appropriate. > > We certainly see enough of it here anyway. :)
...
>> do we need to have a "ugliest SQL statement" contest? >> >> OT list? >> >> I have an entry ready
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