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Beware of NO_DATA_FOUND in your PTF!

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A few days ago I received a comment/question on the older post about dynamically transposing rows to column with Polymorphic Table Functions (PTF). Back then I overlooked a bug in the example code, but the explanation takes a bit longer, so i decided to write a new post about it. The PTF was working initially but after inserting new data started to return wrong results – all NULL’s for some columns where we know there are actually values present. So, what’s going on?

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Polymorphic Table Functions (PTF) , Part 2 – More Basics With Some Deep-Dive

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In the first part of PTF series we went through a very basic example removing some columns and adding a new column with a constant value. Starting from the same example we’ll do something more meaningful in the second part. How about concatenating the values of the removed columns as CSV in a new column? Continue reading →

Polymorphic Table Functions (PTF) – Tinkering with Rowsets

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Writing the second “basics” post on PTF I discovered, that there were much more details worth mentioning, than it would be acceptable for a “basics” post and would blow it up anyway 😉 So I decided to to separate the tests and finding in this (more deep-dive) post. Continue reading →

Polymorphic Table Functions (PTF) , Part 1 – Basics

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I have already posted some examples on Polymorphic Table Functions in Oracle 18c in the last months. I quickly realized how difficult it is to explain completely new feature using advanced examples and wanted to write a series of posts starting from very basics. Now that the Germany’s Oracle User Group (DOAG) has accepted my presentation on PTF for their annual conference is the time to do it.

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Polymorphic Table Functions Example – (NOT) Transposing Rows to Columns

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It was not possible for me to write a follow-up to my last post about Transposing Columns To Rows with PTF showing an opposite task of transposing rows to columns right next weekend as I thought. Partly because of our awesome Trivadis TechEvent which took place back then and partly because this kind of the exercise turned out to be much more difficult one as supposed. Actually it is a nice example to see the limitations of the new feature. Continue reading →

Polymorphic Table Functions Example – Transposing Columns To Rows

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Hey, Oracle 18c is now available on the cloud and for engineered systems! For more than a week now. That also means you can play with it at LiveSQL. And of course you can try polymorphic table functions (PTF)! At least I’ve done that this weekend 😉 And here is my first working example. Continue reading →