Thanks!
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CASE appeared (with little fanfare) in 8.1.6. However, until Oracle9, it
was not available in PL/SQL, when they integrated the PL/SQL engine into
the kernel.
Darrell Landrum wrote:
>I thought case in PL/SQL was not available until 9i. I'll have to look that up.
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>I too faced the problem of case not working in pl/sql & procedures. So I
>created a view.
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>Would creating a view work for you ?
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>Hi:
>
>Oracle 8173 on Sun Solaris 2.8. I am trying to "optimize" the follwoing code
>(in an PL/SQL package) into one table call (instead of two)
>
> select count(1) into count1 from isi.nametag where geneid=geneid1;
> select count(1) into count2 from isi.nametag where geneid=geneid2;
>
>The following code works in sqlplus, but not in PL/SQL:
>
> select count(case when geneid=geneid1 then 1 else null end ) into count1,
> count(case when geneid=geneid2 then 1 else null end ) into count2
> from isi.nametag ;
>
>I have to use dynamic sql to get around this problem. But it's perofrmance
>is horrible.
>
>SQL> set serveroutput on
>SQL> declare
> 2 i number:=0;
> 3 str varchar2(200);
> 4 count1 number;
> 5 count2 number;
> 6 begin
> 7 str := 'select count(case when geneid=:x1 then 1 else null end ) ,
> 8 count(case when geneid=:x2 then 1 else null end )
> 9 from isi.nametag';
> 10 for x1 in 1 .. 10 Loop
> 11 for x2 in 20 .. 30 Loop
> 12 i := i +1;
> 13 EXECUTE IMMEDIATE str INTO count1, count2 USING x1, x2;
> 14 end loop;
> 15 end loop;
> 16 dbms_output.put_line('i =' || i);
> 17 end;
> 18 /
>i =110
>
>PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>
>Elapsed: 00:00:10.96
>
>SQL> declare
> 2 i number:=0;
> 3 count1 number;
> 4 count2 number;
> 5 begin
> 6 for x1 in 1 .. 100 Loop
> 7 for x2 in 200 .. 300 Loop
> 8 i := i +1;
> 9 select count(1) into count1 from isi.nametag where geneid=x1;
> 10 select count(1) into count2 from isi.nametag where geneid=x2;
> 11 end loop;
> 12 end loop;
> 13 dbms_output.put_line('i =' || i);
> 14 end;
> 15 /
>i =10100
>
>PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>
>Elapsed: 00:00:04.06
>
>Is there a better way to optimize the orginal code? TIA.
>
>Guang Mei
>
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