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no i need it in several placse and i dont want to run it over and over again. Im passing it around.
>
> From: "Charu Joshi" <joshic_at_mahindrabt.com>
> Date: 2003/08/29 Fri AM 11:54:26 EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: RE: how to do a variable in-list of numbers?
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you not use the query that fetches the numbers to be part of
> the 'inlist' directly in the insert statement itself?
>
> insert into tab2
> select col1
> from tab1
> where col2 in (select num from .....);
>
> If you want to reuse the same 'inlist' for the rest of the
> session, you could use temp tables.
>
> Regards,
> Charu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of
> rgaffuri_at_cox.net
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 8:07 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I need to do an insert select of the form
>
> insert into tab2
> select col1
> from tab1
> where col2 in (inlist of numbers);
>
> I do not know how many values will be in my inlist at runtime.
> With strings I just build a big string. How do I build an 'inlist'
> of numbers at runtime?
>
> Im using a cursor to determine which values need to be added to my
> inlist. I think I can do some kind of cast, but im not familiar
> with it.
>
> Im on 8i. I do not want to j ust run this inside my cursor. It
> could then execute 300-400 times and will run all day.
>
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