I thought I reply to all previously, but can't see it
up.
Anyway, the answer to the "exclude" option is NO.
That cursor row also contains a lot of other
information to update other tables. So no row can be
excluded.
Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance
Wendy
- "Daemen, Remco" <Remco.Daemen_at_werklinq.nl> wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> Exclude the rows with "XXX is null" in the cursor
> definition. Does that
> get you what you want ?
>
> HTH, Remco
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: steven wndy [mailto:wndyu_at_yahoo.com]
> Verzonden: dinsdag 12 maart 2002 22:34
> Aan: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Onderwerp: Smart Update, How ?
>
>
> Hello list:
>
> In my cursor loop, I have an update statement, see
> below. Now I need to the update only for the field
> (in
> that cursor) that has data in it. (which means when
> is
> null, that field will not be updated).
> - Dynamic SQL can do it. But now for many reasons
> that
> I can't use Dynamic SQL in this code. Hard for other
> people to maintain
> - And I believe use multiple "if XXX is not null
> then
> update ...", this is accomplishable. But that will
> be
> a lot of "if .. then ... update ..." statement.
>
> Is there a smarter way to do this update? I don't
> know
> if DECODE can be used here. at least I don't know
> how.
> Any ideas? Many Thanks
>
>
> UPDATE KOMP
> SET C_INVENTORY_DATE =
> DECODE(rec_UpdIES.PHYINVENTORYDATE, NULL, NULL,
> TO_DATE(rec_UpdIES.PHYINVENTORYDATE, 'YYYYMMDD')),
> KFLDC03 = RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.RESPONSIBLEDEPT),
> KFLDC24 = RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.COMPBILLCODE),
> KFLDA01 = DECODE(RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.DATEINSTALLED),
> NULL, NULL, TO_DATE(RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.DATEINSTALLED),
> 'YYYYMMDD')),
> KFLDA04 = DECODE(RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.DATERECEIVED),
> NULL,
> TO_DATE(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'YYYYMMDD'), 'YYYYMMDD'),
> TO_DATE(RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.DATERECEIVED),
> 'YYYYMMDD')),
> KFLDC11 = RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.MAINTPONUMBER),
>
>
> KFLDC12 = RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.MAINTPOLINE),
>
>
> KFLDC13 = RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.MAINTRELEASENO),
>
>
> KFLDC14 = RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.MAINTVENDOR),
>
>
> GARANTBIS =
> TO_DATE(RTRIM(rec_UpdIES.WARRANTYENDDATE),
> 'YYYYMMDD'),
> C_BILLCODE = V_BILLCODE,
> ACQUISITIONMODE = rec_UpdIES.OWNERSHIPCODE,
> USERCHG = 'RECEIPT',
> DATCHG =
> TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'YYYY-MM-DD-HH24.MI.SS')||'.000000'
>
>
> WHERE in_IDENT = IDENT;
>
>
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