Comments on: ANY Types, Pipelined Table Functions, Dynamic SQL and Pivot http://awads.net/wp/2008/06/05/any-types-pipelined-table-functions-dynamic-sql-and-pivot/ News, views, tips and tricks on Oracle and other fun stuff Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:44:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: nosizwe mxobo http://awads.net/wp/2008/06/05/any-types-pipelined-table-functions-dynamic-sql-and-pivot/comment-page-1/#comment-52209 nosizwe mxobo Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:51:00 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=731#comment-52209 <p>Hi I would like you to help me to come up with desired results for this report.I am currently preparing a script in SQL for people who has attended course now what i want the report to do is to highlight the entire row green if the column STATUS contains the value ' NOT ATTENDED',Im thinking of a coding like this select case when status "Attended' then backcolor = green else status end case</p> <p>the second one is this field called Cost_per_person is captured in string data type and other values are having 'R' before(R4562,00) and the comma is not used to separate thousand is for hundrends instead.Now i want to convert all the numbers to decimal and leave those rows that contains characters('NOT YET PAID').I want to have a code like this one select CASE WHEN f.segment10 = string then REPLACE (CAST (f.segment10 AS VARCHAR (10)), 'R', ' ' ) when f.segment10 = varchar then convert(To_decimal(8,2),f.segment10 ) ELSE f.segment10 END cost_per_person, your response will be highly appreciated. Regards</p> <p>Nosizwe Mxobo Marang Oracle Centre of excellence : HRMS Business Intelligence Tel: 27 (21) 403 8075 Fax: 27 (21) 403 3657 Cell: 082 064 4691 www.parliament.gov.za</p> Hi I would like you to help me to come up with desired results for this report.I am currently preparing a script in SQL for people who has attended course now what i want the report to do is to highlight the entire row green if the column STATUS contains the value ‘ NOT ATTENDED’,Im thinking of a coding like this select case when status “Attended’ then backcolor = green else status end case

the second one is this field called Cost_per_person is captured in string data type and other values are having ‘R’ before(R4562,00) and the comma is not used to separate thousand is for hundrends instead.Now i want to convert all the numbers to decimal and leave those rows that contains characters(‘NOT YET PAID’).I want to have a code like this one select CASE WHEN f.segment10 = string then REPLACE (CAST (f.segment10 AS VARCHAR (10)), ‘R’, ‘ ‘ ) when f.segment10 = varchar then convert(To_decimal(8,2),f.segment10 ) ELSE f.segment10 END cost_per_person, your response will be highly appreciated. Regards

Nosizwe Mxobo Marang Oracle Centre of excellence : HRMS Business Intelligence Tel: 27 (21) 403 8075 Fax: 27 (21) 403 3657 Cell: 082 064 4691 http://www.parliament.gov.za

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