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Oracle subquery - With syntax

16.03.06 at 09:39:52
SQL*XL user Fred asked the following question.

Question:
I am using the Oracle subquery syntax. SQL*XL does not seem to recognise these with statements. Can
you fix that?

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Answer:
Yes. I can confirm this is fixed in SQL*XL 4.0.42

The Oracle subquery syntax allows you to assign a name to a query block. You can reference this name
in multiple places in the statement. The syntax is:

[subquery_factoring_clause] select_statement

[subquery_factoring_clause]:= WITH { query_name AS ( subquery ), ...}

Example:
A good example of the use of a with statement is when you want to calculate a percentage. Consider the
emp table with columns ename, sal, deptno. An employee has a salary and a department number.
Suppose you need to calculate what the percentage of the salary is that a person gets in a particular
department. You could use the following syntax to first calculate the total salary per department and
then to join that against the emp table to compute the salary percentages:

with total_dept_sal as
( select sum(sal) total_sal
, deptno
from emp
group by deptno
)
select ename
, sal
, emp.deptno
, round(sal*100/total_dept_sal.total_sal,0) sal_percentage
from emp
, total_dept_sal
where emp.deptno = total_dept_sal.deptno
order by emp.deptno

See these pages for the full syntax:

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10759/queries001.h tm#i2053893
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Re: Oracle subquery - With syntax

Reply #1 - 03.11.07 at 21:50:27
I started using the with clause to make clear SQL statements where processing is done in the with
statement to benefit the clarity of the statement. Consider this example:

select *
from mytable m
where m.start_date >= mypackage.convert_local_to_gmt(to_date('01-01-2007','dd-mm-yyyy'))
and m.end_date < mypackage.convert_local_to_gmt(to_date('01-01-2008','dd-mm-yyyy'))

Using the with syntax this can be rewritten to:

with parameters
as
( select mypackage.convert_local_to_gmt(to_date('01-01-2007','dd-mm-yyyy'))
as start_date
, mypackage.convert_local_to_gmt(to_date('01-01-2008', 'dd-mm-yyyy'))
as end_date
)
select *
from mytable m
, parameters p
where m.start_date >= p.start_date
and m.end_date < p.end_date
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Re: Oracle subquery - With syntax

Reply #2 - 03.11.07 at 21:53:15
Another use of the with clause is to pre materialise parts of the query. The materialize hint can be used
to materialise (Oracle makes a temporary table) the with parts of the query.

Example:
with codes as (select /*+ materialize */ code from code_table)
select *
from mytable m
, codes c
where m.code = c.code

See also:
Pre materialize parts of complex query
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