not very slick but I used MINUS yesterday to find parents with no children so as to purge them....
we do this a lot in this 3rd party app. RI is sketchy at best and the app blows up if childless parents exists --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jonathan, > > I've used MINUS heavily in sql scripts and pl/sql > to determine the differences in schemas: both > structure and data. > > Of interest to DBA's and developers, and least when I > did it it was for the developers. > > Jared > > > On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jonathan Gennick wrote: > > > I'm doing research for an article on union queries. I'm > > interested in finding examples of problems that were solved > > using UNION, UNION ALL, INTERSECT, or MINUS, with the latter > > two being of special interest because I don't see them used > > very often. If you can think of an interesting problem > > you've solved using one of these keywords, I'd love to hear > > about it. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are > > http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Join the Oracle-article list and receive one > > article on Oracle technologies per month by > > email. To join, visit > http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, > > or send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > > include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. > > > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Rachel Carmichael INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
