Title: using stored procedures from pro*c
Can you send  an example?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:23 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: dware/materialized views/nulls/defaults - Gurus help

Okay guys after feeling like a purist and that NULLS should not be stuffed with values just because - because of course maybe slight performance issue, also is it really the same meaning? and wanting easy way to build in consistency to data without changing data - in building base tables for warehouse ran into problem creating materialized view. 

Guess what?   I got zero-length errors if try to decode to NULL for rows where values Great for derived fields - they default to '0's say and everything else NULLS or you have to have a separate update process to NULLS after object built which in the case of mater. views like largely defeats the purpose. 

In my previous builds of dwarehouses I did end up using a default other than NULLS for all columns but seems cumbersome. 

Is there a way in mat. view or CTAS I can decode to null value but avoid zero-length error without writing a function?  Is there a way to specify column precision in CTAS explicitly and would that work??

Reply via email to