Just to give you all a hint in the right direction here is the simplest “pagination” query used on Oracle.

(select * from emp
where rownum <=var)
minus
(select * from emp
where rownum<=(var-100))

ex.
var = 100 Will give first 100 results and var = 200 will give next 100 results.

Our database is receiving data over serial port so there was Alot of garbage. Sice it’s such a huge table and there was so much invalid date formats I was forced to create decent Oracle replacement for VB function IsDate:

CREATE FUNCTION ISDATE( ip_date in varchar2 )
return date
is
begin
return to_date(ip_date,'dd-mm-yyyy');
exception
when others
then return null;
end isdate;

Only flaw I found was that you need to predefine date type you need… but we already knew that so it was not a problem.

Hope this helps someone!

• Interne funkcije
  Primera radi sybase ima funkciju datepart() koja radi slično kao to_char() kod oracla, sada je to lepo i jednostavno kada znam, ali kada se covek prvi put sretne sa datepart() a google neda brzo odgovor…
• Rezervisane reči
  Ovo me je posebno nerviralo, samo kad se setim da u sybase ‘number’ ili ‘type’ nisu rezervisane reči!

Toliko, čisto da bude moguće dobiti uvid u količinu mojih frustracija u zadnjih par dana.