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Designing Simple Schema for Disaggregation of Demand Forecast

I am doing a simple database design task as a training exercise where I have to come up with a basic schema design for the following case: I have a parent-child hierarchy of products (example, Raw ...
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temporary table inside procedure oracle

I'm in a situation right now. I'm migrating several procedures from Mysql 5.0 to Oracle 11g. Mysql procedures allow me to: 1. Create temporary tables 2. Insert data into temporary tables / Query these ...
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Oracle error “too many values”, must be solved with nested SELECTs

I have hit upon a "too many values" error in Oracle, when working with some intricate nested SELECTs. A simplified description of my problem, on a toy problem describing the hierarchy in a company. ...
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Query missing one date; only happened today

This should be pretty reproducible I hope. I'm on Oracle 11g. This query, which I use as part of another query, is acting strangely: SELECT TRUNC(SYSDATE - ROWNUM) DATEITEM ...
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ETA: translate Oracle SQL queries to MySQL

task: replace Oracle 11g with MySQL current setup: Oracle 11g SE One about 80 tables stored procedures, PL/SQL are in place but out of scope for this question client applications do not use a ...
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Help with getters & setters in PL/SQL

I am not a db guy, and I have a very beginner's knowledge bout PL/SQL. That being clear now the question: I have 2 tables one file level & another batch level. In a day, only 1 file_id is ...
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primary key, foreign key relationship between the department and employee tables How do I install? (sql_developer) [closed]

EMPLOYEES TABLE COLUMN NAMES: EMPLOYEE_ID EMPLOYEE_NAME EMPLOYEE_LASTNAME JOB EMPLOYEE_BUSINESS_PHONE EMPLOYEE_GSM SALARY HIRE_DATE E_MAIL DEPARTMAN_NO NOTE:FOR THIS TABLE: EMPLOYEE_ID IS PRIMARY ...
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Oracle SQL for left outer join to rownum = 1 of another query?

Background I have a query joining many tables together, the chief of which is a workorder table. I also have a table called WOStatusHistory, which stores every status for every workorder. A diagram ...
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How do you monitor specific SQL statement of a specific user ?

We have a few standalone users here which cause high server loads for several 11.1.0.7 Oracle's. I spoke with them a few times but it seems that their queries are causing high loads and probably ...
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How to use the METHOD_OPT parameter in DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats

Hi there I was just wondering what would be the difference between these 2 METHOD_OPT parameter settings: FOR COLUMNS SIZE 5 some_column and FOR COLUMNS some_column SIZE 5 both will create a ...
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In Oracle how do I save a sequence.nextval in a variable to be reused in multiple inserts?

I'm writing a script to populate some tables with data for testing. I would like to write something like the following but I don't know how to do it (I'm Oracle 11g) SET ENABLED_USER_ID = ...
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LNNVL Justification

LNNVL is an oracle built in function that returns TRUE for conditions evaluating to FALSE or UNKNOWN, and returns FALSE for conditions evaluating to TRUE. My question is what would be the benefit of ...