Re: FETCH a cursor inside a SELECT

On 29 Nov 2002 at 23:51, David Crawshaw wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:42 pm, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > How about defining two views? One view that returns matchclass1 and
> > another selects on this view to eliminate duplicates.
>
> That would be a nice clean solution, but the functions are a search
> system. The integer being passed into the functions is a comparing id
> from another table, and then values are compared. As far as I know, a
> view is just a static definition.

Not too sure but how about inserting the variable to be passed in a single row
table and select on that table from view definition?

Agreed not as straight forward but it cleanly splits the job between modules..

Tell us if this works.. I just pulled it out of thin air..;-)

Bye
 Shridhar

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