Hi Phil,
This might help. http://plsqlnotes.blogspot.com/search/label/powermultiset.
I'm not 10% sure that it applies, but I think it does.
Mike
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Phil W <philwinfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Given a phase, and a table of "like" words, essentially a thesaurus, I'd
> like to generate all permutations of the phrase
> making use of the thesaurus entries.
>
> I am sure it is possible in an SQL statement as I'd like to avoid PL/SQL
> if possible but I am thinking now that a function/pipelined function
> might be my only option. Does anyone with better SQL than me know how this
> can be done please?
>
> create table word_syn
> (value varchar2(30),
> likeness varchar2(30))
> /
>
> insert all
> into word_syn values ('red','rouge')
> into word_syn values ('red','crimson')
> into word_syn values ('car','motor')
> into word_syn values ('car','vehicle')
> select 1 from dual
> /
>
>
> /* Find options for "big red car"
> Desired output is:
> big rouge car
> big rouge motor
> big rouge vehicle
> big red motor
> big crimson motor... and so on.
> */
>
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