Ethan What constitutes a pattern? What makes it a success? Does A,A; AB,AB; ABC,ABC; ABCD,ABCGD? How about A, followed by 1000 other records and then A again? Seems to me the rules need to be defined a little better. I get the feeling that this is a science all in itself. I wonder if regular expressions could help here. Tom -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Post, Ethan Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:17 PM To: sol beach Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: How To Find Reapeating Row Patterns yes, this is a log table, there is a time stamp. -----Original Message----- From: sol beach [mailto:sol.beach@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 12:15 PM To: Post, Ethan Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How To Find Reapeating Row Patterns If each line below is supposed to be a separate record in a table, please keep in mind that in any RDBMS the order in which rows are returned is indeterminate, unless ORDER BY clause is specified on the SELECT! On 7/21/05, Post, Ethan <Ethan.Post@xxxxxx> wrote: [...snip...] > > For_Example > ==================== > A > B > C > D > E > F > A > B > C > D > E > F > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l