Re: Min of decode explaination

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:53:30 -0700

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 07:31, Lee Lee wrote:

> SQL> select min(plan_start_dt), 
>     min(decode(ord_stat,'OP','',plan_start_dt))       
> 
>     from test_tbl;
> 
> MIN(PLAN_ MIN(DECOD
> --------- ---------
> 03-NOV-04 01-DEC-04
> 
> 1 row selected.
> 


try:


select min(a.plan_start_dt), min(a.plan_start_dt2)
from (
   select plan_start_dt, 
     decode(ord_stat,'OP','',plan_start_dt) plan_start_dt2
   from test_tbl
) a


Jared


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