Need a script to select the update the row to another row in the same table

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  Thank you

  Hello

  First of all, after post 79, you need to know how to format your code.

  Your last request reads as follows:

  UPDATE
    mnt.workorders_copy
  SET
    comappstat =
    (
      SELECT DISTINCT
        a.comappstat
      FROM
        mnt.workorders a
      , mnt.workorders_copy b
      WHERE
        a.workordersoi    = b.workordersoi
        AND a.comappstat != b.comappstat
    )
  WHERE
    a.comappstat      != b.comappstat
    AND a.workordersoi = b.workordersoi
  

  This will not work for several reasons:
  The sub query allows you to define a and b and outside the breakets you can't refer to a or b.
  There is no link between the mnt.workorders_copy and the the update and the request of void.

  If you do this you should have something like this:

  UPDATE
    mnt.workorders     A      -- THIS IS THE TABLE YOU WANT TO UPDATE
  SET
    A.comappstat =
    (
      SELECT
        B.comappstat
      FROM
        mnt.workorders_copy B   -- THIS IS THE TABLE WITH THE CORRECT (OLD) VALUES
      WHERE
        a.workordersoi    = b.workordersoi      -- THIS MUST BE THE KEY
        AND a.comappstat != b.comappstat
    )
  WHERE
    EXISTS
    (
      SELECT
        B.comappstat
      FROM
        mnt.workorders_copy B
      WHERE
        a.workordersoi    = b.workordersoi      -- THIS MUST BE THE KEY
        AND a.comappstat != b.comappstat
    )
  

  Speed is not so good that you run the query to sub for each row in mnt.workorders
  Note it is condition in where. You need other wise, you will update the unchanged to null values.

  I wouold do it like this:

  UPDATE
    (
      SELECT
        A.workordersoi
        ,A.comappstat
        ,B.comappstat           comappstat_OLD
  
      FROM
        mnt.workorders        A      -- THIS IS THE TABLE YOU WANT TO UPDATE
        ,mnt.workorders_copy  B      -- THIS IS THE TABLE WITH THE CORRECT (OLD) VALUES
  
      WHERE
        a.workordersoi    = b.workordersoi      -- THIS MUST BE THE KEY
        AND a.comappstat != b.comappstat
    ) C
  
  SET
    C.comappstat = comappstat_OLD
  ;
  

  This way you can test the subquery first and know exectly what will be updated.
  This was not a sub query that is executed for each line preformance should be better.

  Kind regards

  Peter

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  Hello

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  I use oracle 10g

  I want to update the column PERMATTINELIGIBLE in the same table, when each row is inserted.

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  When a row is inserted is recalculated to the PERMATTINELIGIBLE of all the records for that employee for that month.

  There would be only two or three records for an employee for a month.

  PERMMINS is the number of minutes to use as short leave.

  If it is less than 60 is eligible for the bonus to attendance for this employee.

  If is not normally the day is not eligible for the premium of attendance for this employee.

  but an exception is that if a short leaves of DISP employee allowed a month (IE. SSLINASTRETCH) in a straight line, IE. one day, that day is eligible for the bonus of presence.

  That is to say. Why the number of short leaves in a month is taken. If it's one and done minutes use is less than SSLINASTRETCH, then the day is eligible for the bonus of presence.

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  You can not do in a trigger. Even if correct you this error of syntax, you will get the exception that I mentioned above.

  Oracle is a multi-user system. Other users can modify the same table that you use.

  So even if you could try to interview "all the records for this employee" some of them may be locked if other users access them. Also, an insert statement could try to insert two rows for an employee and the trigger could not have seen the other lines still.

  If you want to work with data SETS (all records for an employee), you must write the PL/SQL code that LOCKS all lines updated to prevent others to interfere.

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  Then VALIDATE to unlock the lines.

• place a select query calculation in a different column in the same table

  How can I put my calculation result in a column named within the same table?

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  8,978 7.48166666666666666666666666666666666667 120

  30.951 25.7925 120

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  Hello

  2685870 wrote:

  How can I put my calculation result in a column named within the same table?

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• UPDATE on the same table in the sub query

  DB version: 11.2
  
  We have a table called SHP_GC_TRACK, which has about 8 million records with partitions. In the below UPDATE, it updates a column based on the SELECT on the same table in a subquery.
  

  UPDATE shp_gc_track a
     SET f_tran_proc  = 'Y'
   WHERE last_update_date <
            (SELECT MAX (last_update_date)
               FROM shp_gc_track b
              WHERE a.shp_trx_rowid = b.shp_trx_rowid
                AND a.c_shp_inst = b.c_shp_inst
                AND a.f_tran_proc  = b.f_tran_proc 
                AND b.f_ltr_received = 'D'
                AND f_rec_code IN ('G', 'W')
                AND b.f_rec_status = 'B'
                AND b.c_shp_inst = :b1
                )
     AND a.c_shp_inst = :b1
     AND a.f_ltr_received = 'D'             -----------------> part of composite index
     AND a.f_tran_proc  = 'N'              -----------------> part of composite index
     AND a.f_rec_code IN ('G', 'W')      --------------> part of composite index  
     AND a.f_rec_status = 'B';              -----------------> part of composite index  

  This UPDATE takes a long time to run and sometimes get hung up.
  
  We have a composite index on four columns f_ltr_received, f_rec_code, f_rec_status and f_tran_proc. Explain the plan shows that this composite index is used.
  
  
  
  Any way to rewrite this query or suggestion?

  Steve_74 wrote:
  DB version: 11.2

  We have a table called SHP_GC_TRACK, which has about 8 million records with partitions. In the below UPDATE, it updates a column based on the SELECT on the same table in a subquery.

  UPDATE shp_gc_track a
  SET f_tran_proc  = 'Y'
  WHERE last_update_date <
  (SELECT MAX (last_update_date)
  FROM shp_gc_track b
  WHERE a.shp_trx_rowid = b.shp_trx_rowid
  AND a.c_shp_inst = b.c_shp_inst
  AND a.f_tran_proc  = b.f_tran_proc
  AND b.f_ltr_received = 'D'
  AND f_rec_code IN ('G', 'W')
  AND b.f_rec_status = 'B'
  AND b.c_shp_inst = :b1
  )
  AND a.c_shp_inst = :b1
  AND a.f_ltr_received = 'D'             -----------------> part of composite index
  AND a.f_tran_proc  = 'N'              -----------------> part of composite index
  AND a.f_rec_code IN ('G', 'W')      --------------> part of composite index
  AND a.f_rec_status = 'B';              -----------------> part of composite index  
  

  This UPDATE takes a long time to run and sometimes get hung up.

  We have a composite index on four columns f_ltr_received, f_rec_code, f_rec_status and f_tran_proc. Explain the plan shows that this composite index is used.

  Any way to rewrite this query or suggestion?

  Setting updates with subqueries may be difficult: (.) Unfortunately my suggestions below are of the try-it-and-see-what-happens variety - nothing of certain

  First of all, check the index. Is it bitmap or tree? If the tree to see if the more restrictive columns are listed first - this can help with effectiveness of b-tree indexes. Also if the tree a composite bitmap for columns with lots of repeat values instead could help

  Its a correlated subquery so that you cannot run just the subquery first put the result in a scalar varaiable and using the variable in the SQL instead. You can try putting the keys w/join subuqery results in a TWG first to use TWG in SQL to see if I/O is reduced together during these two operations.

  You have the license for the parallel query option? Using parallel DML (this must be activated manually) can help. Check the documentation of the ALTER SESSION command to do so. In addition, the PARALLEL_INDEX() indicator could help

  Display the SQL execution plan