SELECT aDATE, DATEcol, VALUEcol
FROM aTABLE,
(SELECT TO_DATE('09/01/2005', 'mm/dd/yyyy') aDATE FROM DUAL UNION
SELECT TO_DATE('09/02/2005', 'mm/dd/yyyy') aDATE FROM DUAL UNION
SELECT TO_DATE('09/03/2005', 'mm/dd/yyyy') aDATE FROM DUAL UNION
SELECT TO_DATE('09/04/2005', 'mm/dd/yyyy') aDATE FROM DUAL UNION
SELECT TO_DATE('09/05/2005', 'mm/dd/yyyy') aDATE FROM DUAL)
WHERE aDATE = DATEcol (+)
ORDER BY aDATE
On 11/3/05, Ian Skinner wrote:
> Say one has a table something like this (much simpler then the table I am
> working with, but should suffice for an example).
>
> aTABLE
> DATEcol VALUEcol
> ------- --------
> 9/1/05 Red
> 9/3/05 Blue
> 9/5/05 Green
>
> I would like to create a result set that looks like this.
>
> aResult
> aDATE DATEcol VALUEcol
> ------ ------- --------
> 9/1/05 9/1/05 Red
> 9/2/05 NULL NULL
> 9/3/05 9/3/05 Blue
> 9/4/05 NULL NULL
> 9/5/05 9/5/05 Green
>
> I imagine that I would create some kind of inline select or from table, but I
> can't visulize how I would do this. Is it possible?
>
> The date range will be dynamic so I don't really want to create some table
> that has all possible dates for all of time, it would be a bit large I
> believe.
>
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