converting varchar2, xmltype

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  Hello community,

  I have 2 columns with as many lines of type varchar2 attributes and I intend to convert to float. Seaweed can you tell me what the best way to do it and how?

  Best regards

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• Converting varchar2 field in date format: DD-ME-AAAA

  Thanks in advance for the help anyone about it because I know that it takes your time and expertise. I'm pretty new to SQL but learn my way through it just have a problem with a text to the conversion of date field. It is an Oracle database 10g and I do not write in SQL. There is a field called demand which is formatted in varchar2 format DDMMYY. There is also an updated field shaped like a date called payment which is in JJ-ME-YYYY format.
  
  Essentially, I need to make a simple payment > = request, however as you can see that is an issue with this being a field of varchar2. Anyone know if it is possible to make this type of expression against these two fields. Was thinking about the varchar2 eventually convert a date but do not know how to access this format DD-MON-YYYY.
  
  Also there are situations where this application field will often be null because he would have never received correspondence in the past and would not have a date at all.
  
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  Published by: user10860766 on August 18, 2009 08:14
  
  Published by: user10860766 on August 18, 2009 08:19

  Hello

  It is difficult to detect the wrong dates in pure SQL, especially if you need to be specific as to which 29 February is valid.
  It's easy with a user-defined function, like that of [this thread | http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=3669932�].

  Published by: Frank Kulash, August 18, 2009 15:50

  To create a stand-alone function:

  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION     to_dt
  (     in_txt          IN     VARCHAR2                    -- to be converted
  ,     in_fmt_txt     IN     VARCHAR2     DEFAULT     'DD-MON-YYYY'     -- optional format
  ,     in_err_dt     IN     DATE          DEFAULT     NULL
  )
  RETURN DATE
  DETERMINISTIC
  AS
  BEGIN
       -- Try to convert in_txt to a DATE.  If it works, fine.
       RETURN     TO_DATE (in_txt, in_fmt_txt);
  EXCEPTION     -- If TO_DATE caused an error, then this is not a valid DATE: return in_err_dt
       WHEN OTHERS
       THEN
            RETURN in_err_dt;
  END     to_dt
  ;
  /
  

  To use it:

  SELECT  primary_key  -- and/or other columns to identify the row
  ,       demand
  FROM    table_x
  WHERE   demand          IS NOT NULL
  AND     to_dt ( demand
             , 'DDMMYY'
             )          IS NULL;
  

• Convert clob, xmltype

  Hello
  
  How to convert data CLOB XMLTYPE Datatype the data type
  
  Ex: field col1 has given clob type
  possible to convert col1 in target table col1 xmltype datatype
  
  Kind regards
  Vincent

  Hi Vincent,.
  Please, try the following:

  CREATE TABLE CLOBTABLE)
  CLOB CLOBCOL1
  );

  INSERT INTO clobtable VALUES (') 2 Sumeet ');

  FUNCTION to CREATE or REPLACE to_xmltype (clobcol CLOB) RETURN XMLTYPE AS
  BEGIN
  RETURN XMLType (clobcol);
  END;
  /

  SELECT to_xmltype (clobcol) FROM clobtab;

• How to convert varchar2 to raw and vice versa?

  Hi all

  11.2.0.1

  Have the EMP table with columns

  (PASSWORD varchar2 (64), PWD raw (64));

  I want the PWD value to be updated with the value of the PASSWORD.

  and vice versa. How do it?

  Thank you

  pK

  Please try the below:

  SQL > create table testtable (identification number, name varchar2 (512));

  Table created.

  SQL > insert into testtable values (1, 'storm');

  1 line of creation.

  SQL > commit;

  Validation complete.

  SQL > alter table testtable add raw nameraw (512);

  Modified table.

  SQL > update nameraw = utl_raw.cast_to_raw (name) set testtable;

  1 line update.

  SQL > commit;

  Validation complete.

  SQL > alter table testtable column name drop;

  Modified table.

• Convert varchar2 in time does not work

  Hello
  
  I have a column called verkaufsuhrzeit Varchar2 (4 Char). The format of the time in this column is HH24MM (Te 624 means 06:24). Now, I'm trying to get the expiration of the present time.
  

  SELECT (to_timestamp(TO_CHAR(Verkaufsuhrzeit,'0000'),'HH24:MI')) as Zeit from mv_auswertung

  gives me a Date as 01.03.13 06:29, 000000000
  
  

  select to_char (to_date (Verkaufsuhrzeit, 'HH24MI'),'HH24:MI') Zeit from apexptrm.mv_auswertung; 

  tells me that hour must be between 0 and 23
  
  
  Is it because the 0 from the beginning is missing?
  
  So, how can I get the 06:24 by 624. Do I need to add a case if the length is 3 a zero should be added?

  Thorsten wrote:

  nordine B wrote:
  Please try "fmHH24MI"... not tested

  Still the same error:

  Put the NLS_DATE_FORMAT and try

  SQL> alter session set nls_date_format = 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS';
  
  Session altered.
  
  SQL> select to_date ('0140', 'HH24MI')
    2   from dual;
  
  TO_DATE('0140','HH24
  --------------------
  01-MAR-2013 01:40:00
  
  SQL> select to_char (to_date ('0140', 'HH24MI'),'HH24:MI')
    2    from dual;
  
  TO_CH
  -----
  01:40
  
  SQL> 
  

• Problem converting varchar2 to date data type

  Hi all
  
  I am facing a problrm when writing a query to extract a SIT of all employee details in which I compared the "sysdate" with a column of type "varchar2" of the table SIT. I get the following error ORA-01841: (full) year must be between-4713 and 9999 and not 0 and the execution of the query
  ++++++++++++++++++++
  SELECT papf.person_id,
  WOMEN'S WEAR. Employee_number,
  PAPF.full_name,
  CAP. Work_permit_type Segment2,
  PAC.segment7 visa_expiry_date
  OF per_all_people_f women's wear.
  per_person_analyses App,
  per_analysis_criteria CIP,
  fnd_id_flex_structures_tl fifst,
  fnd_id_flex_structures FIFS
  WHERE papf.person_id = ppa.person_id
  AND BETWEEN TRUNC (SYSDATE) papf.effective_start_date
  AND papf.effective_end_date
  AND papf.current_employee_flag = 'Y '.
  AND ppa.analysis_criteria_id = pac.analysis_criteria_id
  AND pac.id_flex_num = fifs.id_flex_num
  AND fifst.id_flex_structure_name = 'THE SIT NAME'
  AND fifst.language = USERENV ('LANG')
  AND fifst.application_id = fifs.application_id
  AND fifst.id_flex_num = fifs.id_flex_num
  AND TO_DATE (pac.segment7,'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS') > = trunc (sysdate)
  AND papf.employee_number = '9127327':
  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  
  The strange thing is the query above works fine witout the last filter condition (AND papf.employee_number = '9127327') but get the mentioned error i.e ORA-01841: (full) year must be between-4713 and 9999 and not 0 with the State.
  
  Could someone help me on this?
  
  Published by: Kumar Koch on 4 December 2012 02:58

  Hello world...

  Thank you for your support.

  What some, I have maneged to get the result by adding an additional filter to condtiotn with the request in the form beloew.
  ({AND REGEXP_LIKE (pac.segment7,'[0123456789]{4}/[0123456789]{2}/[0123456789]{2}')
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• How to convert varchar2 HH24MISS ss

  Hi all
  
  I need help on the format below:
  
  I have a decimal value that needs to be formatted in HH24: MI: SS:ss(milli seconds)
  
  For ex: if I 12345 then exit shud be 1 min 23 seconds and 45 milli seconds
  
  The entrance is a decimal number, and the output column datatype is varchar2.
  
  Any help is appreciated.
  
  THX

  TRY THIS

  Select to_char (to_timestamp (lpad (12345,8, '0'), 'hh24missff'),'HH24:MI:SS.) FF2') double MYTIME

• Converting Varchar2 to date is prob

  Hello guys
  My column contains in fact date in the following format
  JJ/mm/aaaa
  I'll try this query to update in
  something like
  dd/mm/yyyy HH24:MM:SI
  When I use the SELECT statement, it worked fine but when I update the column there
  say not one month valid
  Please look at the querys

  select to_Char(to_date(create_date,'mm/dd/yy HH24:MI:SS'),'mm/dd/yyyy HH24:MI:SS') 
  from Report
  where trunc(Load_Date) = trunc(sysdate - 52)
  --WorkingFine
  --but this one not its getting updated no issue in update statment.
  Update Report
  Set Create_date = to_Char(to_date(Create_date,'mm/dd/yy HH24:MI:SS'),'mm/dd/yyyy')
  where trunc(Load_Date) = trunc(sysdate - 52)
  {Code}
  Here is my sample data

  date of creation
  16/09/2009
  15/09/2009
  and so on

  The create date column is in Varchar2 type
  Please help dun knw wat i am doing wrong
  any suggestion will be appreciated
  Thanks                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

  If you want this format (mm/dd/yyyy HH24.MI:SS) after updating the table, your update to be:

  Update Report
  Set Create_date = to_Char(to_date(Create_date,'mm/dd/yy HH24:MI:SS'),'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
  where trunc(Load_Date) = trunc(sysdate - 52)
  

  Max

• write xmltype in file

  Hi all,
  I use Oracle 9i and I need to write thousands of pieces of XmlType to file. At first, I concatenated all and I wrote it in a file using dbms_xmldom.writetofile, but this is not an efficient process. I would write a single file with each XmlType and do not concatenate these rooms. How can I do? Especially since this function does not pass the file pointer.
  
  Thank you very much.

  Yes, convert your xmltype to a string (using getstringval) before PUT_LINE. Please keep in mind that the maximum length of the buffer, you can switch to PUT_LINE is 32767octets.

  Max
  [My Italian blog Oracle | http://oracleitalia.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/le-direttive-di-compilazione-pragma/]

• Error xml Oracle on a file

  On Oracle 11 g 2, I import an xml file into a table:

  INSERT INTO MS386_XML_TEMPLATE

  VALUES (SYSDATE, pvNomeFile,

  XmlType (bfilename (myDirectory, pvNomeFile), nls_charset_id ('UTF8')));

  When I choose on this table, I have the following error:

  SELECT TBELENCOPOD. POD

  Of

  (SELECT XMLCast (TBPOD. POD COLUMN_VALUE AS VARCHAR2 (20)) AS

  TABLE (XMLSequence (XMLTYPE (CURSOR

  (SELECT * FROM MS386_XML_TEMPLATE)

  () .extract('/rowset/row/xml_file/edi_l/trader/idrif idrich/hdr/pod '))) TBPOD

  ) TBELENCOPOD

  LEFT JOIN MS038_METERS TBPOD

  ON TBELENCOPOD. POD = TBPOD. POD

  WHERE TBPOD. POD IS NULL

  GROUP OF TBELENCOPOD. POD;

  ORA-31011: ORA-31011: failed to parse XML

  ORA-19202: an error has occurred in the processing of XML

  LPX-00204: syntax error

  Error on line 7

  ORA-06512: a "SYS. XMLTYPE", line 343

  ORA-06512: line 1

  31011 00000 - "XML parsing failed"

  * Cause: XML parser returned an error trying to parse the document.

  * Action: Check whether the document to parse is valid.

  The XML is valid, I had checked with a validator. Thank you very much

  Igor

  Me stupid (when do I start to actually read what was written)

  You have a table with varchar2(), the date and xmltype.

  So, how do you think Oracle to convert the xmltype column to xmltype (at least it's a moment)?

  So you can get the content out, xmltype but then you have to convert it to xml, it is already XML...

  So we need to find another approach to "xmltype (cursor (select * table)).

  In principle, you can extract the content in the XML file directly.

  For example (untested) something like

  select xt.pod
  from table tab
        , xmltable ('/edi_l/trader/idrif/hdr',
                        passing tab.XML_FILE
                        columns
                          pod VARCHAR2(20) path 'pod')  xt
  

• Store > 32K in a CLOB variable

  Oracle 11.1

  CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE foo(p_input IN clob,p_output OUT INTEGER)
  IS
  BEGIN
      WITH data AS (
          SELECT xmltype(p_input) xml
          FROM dual
      )
      SELECT
          length(extractValue(d.xml,'//value'))
      INTO p_output
      FROM data d;
  END;
  /
  
  

  The incoming XML content passed in FOO can be greater than 32K so I just want to make sure that Oracle takes care of everything, but I am not able to set up a simple test case. I Googled, looked up the old sons of RTO and AskTom, but no matter that I do either ORA-01706: user function result value was too big or ORA-06502: PL/SQL: digital or value error: character string buffer too small

  OK so extractValue returns a VARCHAR2 so that it cannot handle more than 4000, but so I tried to use extract(d.dml,'//value').getclobval , but would not compile with PL/SQL: ORA-22806: not an object or REF.  , I'm missing a few concepts here.

  DECLARE
      l_clob clob;
      l_open clob := '<node><value>';
      l_close clob := '</value></node>';
      l_output INTEGER;
  BEGIN
       DBMS_LOB.createtemporary(l_clob,TRUE);
       dbms_lob.writeappend(l_clob,length(l_open),l_open);
          for i in 1..10 loop
            dbms_lob.writeAppend( l_clob, 32000, rpad('*',32000,'*') );
          end loop;
       dbms_lob.writeappend(l_clob,length(l_CLOSE),l_CLOSE);
  
      foo(l_clob,l_output);
      dbms_output.put_line('Output='||l_output);
  END;
  /
  
  

  Or simply l_clob: = l_open | RPAD('*',32000,'*') | l_close

  What Miss me? I want to just prove to me that I can successfully in an XML document that is greater than 32K and XMLTYPE methods allow to process the data in a relational format.

  Thank you

  Quick test...

  SQL > create or replace procedure process_xml (xml in xmltype) is
  2 cursor cur_xml is
  3. Select x.*
  xmltable 4 ('/ / employee ')
  5 passage xml
  RN 6 columns for ordinalite
  7 road of varchar2 (10) ename '. / ename'
  8 road of varchar2 (10) work '. / job'
  9 road number sal '. / sal'
  10                     ) x;
  11 start
  12 x in cur_xml
  loop 13
  14 dbms_output.put_line ('[' | x.RN |']) '|| x.Ename |' -' || x.Job |' -' || x.SAL);
  15 end loop;
  16 end;
  17.

  Created procedure.

  SQL > declare
  2 xml xmltype.
  3. start
  4. Select xmlelement ("AllDepartments",
  () 5 xmlagg
  6 xmlelement ("Department", xmlattributes (x.l as copy, d.deptno as deptno, dname as d.dname),)
  () 7 xmlagg
  8 xmlelement ("employee", xmlattributes (e.empno as empno, e.mgr as Bishop),)
  9 xmlelement ("ename", ename)
  10 xmlelement ("employment", work),
  11 xmlelement ("sal", sal)
  12                             )
  13                       )
  14                         )
  15                   )
  16                     )
  17 in xml
  18 Department d e outer join emp left (e.deptno = d.deptno)
  19 cross join (select l dual connect by level level<= 1024)="">
  Group of 20 by x.l, d.deptno, d.dname;
  21 dbms_output.put_line ('XMLSize: ' |) Length (XML.getClobVal ()));
  22 xml is so 1 715 925 about 1.63 Mb in size
  23 process_xml (xml);
  24 end;
  25.
  XMLSize: 1715925
  [1] CLARK - MANAGER - 2450
  [2] MILLER - CLERK - 1300
  [3] THE KING - PRESIDENT - 5000
  [4] SMITH - CLERK - 800
  [5] FORD - ANALYST - 3000
  [6] ADAMS - CLERK - 1100
  [7] SCOTT - ANALYST - 3000
  [8] JONES - MANAGER - 2975
  [9] ALLEN - SELLER - 1600

  
  [10] JAMES - CLERK - 950
  [11] TURNER - SELLER - 1500
  [12] BLAKE - MANAGER - 2850
  [13] MARTIN - SELLER - 1250
  [14] WARD - SELLER - 1250
  [15]  -  -
  [16] CLARK - MANAGER - 2450
  [17] MILLER - CLERK - 1300
  [18] THE KING - PRESIDENT - 5000
  [19] SMITH - CLERK - 800
  [20] FORD - ANALYST - 3000
  [21] ADAMS - CLERK - 1100
  [22] SCOTT - ANALYST - 3000
  [23] JONES - MANAGER - 2975
  [24] ALLEN - SELLER - 1600
  [25] JAMES - CLERK - 950
  [26] TURNER - SELLER - 1500
  [27] BLAKE - MANAGER - 2850
  [28] MARTIN - SELLER - 1250
  [29] WARD - SELLER - 1250
  [30]  -  -
  [31] CLARK - MANAGER - 2450
  [32] MILLER - CLERK - 1300
  [33] KING - PRESIDENT - 5000
  [34] SMITH - CLERK - 800
  [35] FORD - ANALYST - 3000
  [36] ADAMS - CLERK - 1100
  [37] SCOTT - ANALYST - 3000
  [38] JONES - MANAGER - 2975

  [15356] TURNER - SELLER - 1500
  [15357] BLAKE - MANAGER - 2850
  MARTIN [15358] - SELLER - 1250
  WARD [15359] - SELLER - 1250
  [15360]-

  PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

  Don't know why I have some empty employees in this test, but not to worry, it was just for show...

  So, there we have a XML being passed in a procedure that is being processed, and that XML is more than 32 K (in my case it was > 1.6 Mb but could easily be larger).

  If you are passing in a CLOB, there is no real difference as you just convert to XMLTYPE as you did already.

• XMLELEMENT

  I have the following:

  DECLARE

  CURSOR c_xml

  IS

  SELECT XMLELEMENT ("CHECKINOUT"

  xmlattributes (property-ID 'PROPERTY'

  , msgid "ID".

  , status AS the 'STATUS '.

  , lead_name AS "OCCUPANT."

  , send AS "e-mail".

  , unit_ext AS an "EXTENSION".

  folio_id AS a 'folio a')) AS tosend

  TABLE (pm_pbx_systems.checkinout ("PHR"));

  TYPE of documents IS the % rowtype c_xml TABLE;

  records of charges;

  v_content varchar2 (32000);

  BEGIN

  Open c_xml;

  collect the c_xml fetch in bulk in costs;

  close c_xml;

  dbms_output.put_line (charges (1) .tosend);

  for me in charges.first... loop charges. Last

  v_content: = v_content | charges (i) .tosend;

  end loop;

  end;

  When I try to access charges (1) .tosend I get

  [Error] Performance (25: 1): ORA-06550: line 24, column 1:

  PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in the call to "PUT_LINE '.

  ORA-06550: line 24, column 1:

  PL/SQL: Statement ignored

  ORA-06550: line 25, column 14:

  PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in the call to ' |'

  ORA-06550: line 25, column 1:

  PL/SQL: Statement ignored

  How to access this information? I want to create an object that can be used to send through UTL_HTTP.write_text (r = > v_req, DATA = > v_content);

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  XMLElement returns an XMLType data type.  DBMS_OUTPUT has no idea how to handle this type of data.  So DBMS_OUTPUT can do what you want, you might need something like

  DECLARE
  
     CURSOR c_xml
     IS
        SELECT XMLELEMENT ("CHECKINOUT"
                          ,xmlattributes ('1' AS "PROPERTY"
                                         ,'2' AS "ID"
                                         ,'3' AS "STATUS"
                                         ,'4' AS "OCCUPANT"
                                         ,'5' AS "email"
                                         ,'6' AS "EXTENSION"
                                         ,'7' AS "FOLIO")) AS tosend
        FROM   dual;
  
    TYPE records IS TABLE OF c_xml%rowtype;
    charges        records;
    v_content     varchar2(32000);
  BEGIN
  
     open c_xml;
     fetch c_xml bulk collect into charges;
     close c_xml;
  
     dbms_output.put_line(charges(1).tosend.getStringVal());
  
     for i in charges.first .. charges.last loop
        v_content := v_content||charges(i).tosend.getStringVal();
     end loop;
  
  end;
  

  I used. getStringVal() to convert the VARCHAR2 XMLType.  It works for up to 4 k of a data value.  There is also a. getClobVal().  Depending on your version, you can encapsulate a XMLSerialize around XMLElement and use XMLSerialize to convert the XMLType in VARCHAR2 instead of use. getStringVal().  This is the preferred method.

  You can use XMLAgg in your query on the DB?  Don't know what your final v_content must look like if just throwing options.

• The table in XML data

  Dear Sir
  
  The current ver is 10gXe
  
  I trf suite data through two table the Pl/sql procedure in table sales, filed (col) narr varchar2 (200)
  
  How can I select all in xml?
  
  is it possible to convert given below even even in Formate of xml
  
  > < 1 INVOICE NUMBER < / INVOICE NUMBER >
  < DATE 14/09/2011 invoice - > < / DATE of INVOICE >
  < BILLING - >
  Pipe of the first < DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCTS > carbon steel seamless < / PRODUCT >
  CETSH < NUMBER > 73049000 < / CETSH-NUMBER >
  QUANTITY < CODE > KG < / QUANTITY-CODE >
  < QUANTITY > 40 < / QUANTITY >
  < AMOUNT-OF-DUTY-set GAME > 3699 < / QUANTITY-OF-DUTY-INCURRED >
  < / BILLING >
  < / INVOICE-INSTRUCTIONS >

  You must use the getClobVal() method to convert the XMLType to a character data type:

  ...
  ).extract('/*').getclobval() as yourXML
  from demo_orders o;
  

• extract data from xml file

  Hi all
  what it means:
  
  

  Select xxx xmltype(transaction_document).extract('//PerAllVacanciesEORow/xxx/text()').getStringVal)
  of hr_api_transactions
  where transaction_ref_table = 'PER_ALL_VACANCIES. '
  and transaction_ref_id = 4608;

  I think it gives only the value of the numeric type to a string format
  
  Please explain each step in detail

  Hello

  xmltype(transaction_document)
  

  Which converts the TRANSACTION_DOCUMENT (probably from the CLOB data type) in an XMLType data type column.

  .extract('//PerAllVacanciesEORow/xxx/text()')
  

  The part retrieves all text nodes containing elements 'xxx', whose parent is an element of 'PerAllVacanciesEORow '.
  Note that if the XPath "//PerAllVacanciesEORow/xxx" corresponds to multiple nodes, then text() values will be concatenated.

  .getStringVal()
  

  Converts the XMLType return VARCHAR2 data type.

  If you have a problem with the result, post an example of XML, the output data wanted him.
  Please also give your version of the database.