Comments on: Oracle 11g: New Pivot Table Feature

By: MARTIN

MARTIN — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:21:57 +0000

Hello, Can anyone help me? Ive been trying a simple pivot byt just cant get it to work.

* i need the below select statement to have an output as below:
SELECT BGROUP, REFNO, SEQNO, PP02D, PP05P
FROM PRESERVED_PENSIONER_HISTORY
WHERE REFNO IN (’0084941′,’0079500′,
‘0082833′,’0094388′,’0063814′,’0081368′)

*OUTPUT

REFNO DATE1(PP02D) DATE2(PP02D)
0084941 PP05P PP05P
0079500 PP05P PP05P
0082833 PP05P PP05P

There are many values for both values PP02D and PP05P.
Any help will be appreciated.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:57:10 +0000

excelent functionality but the usage is very limited with the restriction of variable value in the pivot section.I dont know why the Orcale more concentrated with XML intsted of providing the functionality in the base noraml SQL.

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By: ghassan

ghassan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:55:02 +0000

Robert,
Doing what you want will not be easy, not only for Oracle, but for the clients: Supporting the sub-query and ANY without XML implies that CBO not only parses the SQL, but also executes the sub-query (or the query if you use ANY) in order to find out how many columns this query returns (it has to know in order to tell the ‘client’ programs how many columns there are so that they allocate the buffers, ….). A way out would be to augment the SQL with the MAX number of columns the user expects, but this puts much burden on the user, and the system will have to decide what to do in case of ANY surpassing this MAX.

By: Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:50:17 +0000

2 out of 10. At this rate, it won’t work properly until Oracle 13g Release 1.