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Hi! anyone with some oracle SQL experience?

 

I want to join 2 tables, where the only possible join is by two different columns. Column A is a twelve character long number, while the other (  B  ) is a two character long number. They can ba joined, because A is like .BB......... , So the 2. and 3. char is taken from B (and in no other cases this is possible).

 

I think I should be able to use REGEXP_LIKE but how do I use column data in this function? '.column_name.........' isn't working naturaly. I tried to look around but I'm stuck now. The best would be if I can use the column name in the regex. I thought about manually entering the possible number combinations, but that wold require updates, and I can't allow that.

 

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Somthing like this should work.
 

Select * From TableA a JOIN TableB b on (REGEXP_SUBSTR(a.Column,'^[0-9]{2}') = b.Column));

 

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A regexp isn't needed here :

Select * From TableA a JOIN TableB b on (b.Column = substr(a.Column, 2, 2));

This should be faster than regexp, and even than LIKE or GLOB

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This is easy and simple. Brilliant jchd :)

I would have made a bridge table with a similar kind of sub string select.  This is better: simple and a lot more robust.  Simple. Fast. Reliable. :)

Would never have though of it myself. Thx for sharing.

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