Comments on: Trick #3 – Store Any Data with AnyData http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/trick-3-store-any-data-with-anydata/ Steve Karam's Oracle Blog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:12:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Excellent http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/trick-3-store-any-data-with-anydata/comment-page-1/#comment-36080 Excellent Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:05:50 +0000 http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/trick-3-store-any-data-with-anydata/#comment-36080 Excellent example , Explained very well. Thanks Adarsh AKTechnosoft Corp. Excellent example , Explained very well.

Thanks
Adarsh
AKTechnosoft Corp.

]]> By: Graeme http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/trick-3-store-any-data-with-anydata/comment-page-1/#comment-9234 Graeme Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:44:02 +0000 http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/trick-3-store-any-data-with-anydata/#comment-9234 Oh i think i just answered my own geestion. I just noticed that the return value for your function is : VARCHAR2, so some may work, but probably not the date one, unless we do something like SELECT to_char(to_date(to_char(getTokens(TOKEN)),’dd-MON-YY’) -1, ’dd-MON-YY’), ’dd-MON-YY’) FROM SEARCH_WORDS WHERE TOKEN_ID=5; Just a thought, why not overload the function somehow based on the return datatype.... Oh i think i just answered my own geestion. I just noticed that the return value for your function is : VARCHAR2, so some may work, but probably not the date one, unless we do something like

SELECT to_char(to_date(to_char(getTokens(TOKEN)),’dd-MON-YY’) -1, ’dd-MON-YY’), ’dd-MON-YY’)
FROM SEARCH_WORDS WHERE TOKEN_ID=5;

Just a thought, why not overload the function somehow based on the return datatype….

]]> By: Graeme http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/trick-3-store-any-data-with-anydata/comment-page-1/#comment-9230 Graeme Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:19:06 +0000 http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/trick-3-store-any-data-with-anydata/#comment-9230 Great examples, I'm just trying to think of how to use it. I know you said that you shouldn't/wouldbn't use a where clause to filter out the token column, but why can't you do something like WHERE getTokens(TOKEN) = 50) and even have a function based index to help with the serach times? Also can you do something like : SELECT 2*getTokens(TOKEN) FROM SEARCH_WORDS WHERE TOKEN_ID=2; and get 100 returned? and from the same table : SELECT SUBSTR(getTokens(TOKEN),1,2) || 'de' FROM SEARCH_WORDS WHERE TOKEN_ID=1; and get "Made" returned? or SELECT to_char(getTokens(TOKEN)-1),'dd-MON-YY') FROM SEARCH_WORDS WHERE TOKEN_ID=5; and get 31-NOV-06 NOTE: I assume this is a 10g functionality? I gon't have a 10g DB to test in yet, so sorry for the questions that i would have tested myself if i did. Great examples, I’m just trying to think of how to use it.

I know you said that you shouldn’t/wouldbn’t use a where clause to filter out the token column, but why can’t you do something like WHERE getTokens(TOKEN) = 50) and even have a function based index to help with the serach times?

Also can you do something like :

SELECT 2*getTokens(TOKEN) FROM SEARCH_WORDS WHERE TOKEN_ID=2;

and get 100 returned?

and from the same table :

SELECT SUBSTR(getTokens(TOKEN),1,2) || ‘de’ FROM SEARCH_WORDS WHERE TOKEN_ID=1;

and get “Made” returned?

or

SELECT to_char(getTokens(TOKEN)-1),’dd-MON-YY’)
FROM SEARCH_WORDS WHERE TOKEN_ID=5;

and get 31-NOV-06

NOTE: I assume this is a 10g functionality? I gon’t have a 10g DB to test in yet, so sorry for the questions that i would have tested myself if i did.

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