Re: Speaking of New Features

  • From: chet justice <chet.justice@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mark.powell@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:59:13 -0400

>
> I think I would require the use of the correct column name instead of any
> type of positional col-n style labeling.


Agreed.   That was just an example, those are the actual column names.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Powell, Mark D <mark.powell@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Well, the suggested syntax below would make matching up a long column
> list to the provided values/variables a lot easier and would likely help
> prevent listing 100 columns to be inserted but only including 99 variables
> in the values list.  I think I would require the use of the correct column
> name instead of any type of positional col-n style labeling.
>
> -- Mark D Powell --
> Phone (313) 592-5148
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Jared Still
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:04 PM
> *To:* chet.justice@xxxxxxxxx
> *Cc:* oracle-l
> *Subject:* Re: Speaking of New Features
>
> Very Perlish.
>  I like it.  :)
>
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:37 PM, chet justice <chet.justice@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts on the "new" syntax for INSERT statements below?
>>
>> INSERT INTO my_table
>>   ( id => seq.nexval,
>>     create_date => SYSDATE,
>>     update_date => SYSDATE,
>>     col1 => 'A',
>>     col2 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col3 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col4 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col5 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col6 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col7 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col8 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col9 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col10 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col11 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col12 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col13 => 'SOMETHING',
>>     col14 => 'SOMETHING' );
>>
>> Thought of one day while trying to clean up (make human readable) someone
>> else's code.  I would either get too many values or not enough.  After
>> copying the INSERT columns and subsequent VALUES clause into an Excel
>> spreadsheet to compare them side by side, I thought, hey, what about named
>> notation?
>>
>> Anyway, I created the "Idea" on Oracle Mix 
>> here<https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/94278-position-insert-syntax>if you are 
>> inclined to, one way or another, to vote.
>>
>> chet
>>
>> --
>> chet justice
>> www.oraclenerd.com
>>
>>
>


-- 
chet justice
www.oraclenerd.com

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