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    Exclamation SQL Query Help !!

    hi,
    i am trying to run the following query

    Code:
    insert into monthly values(SELECT DISTINCT AVG(MEM),DNAME,AVG(CPU),VDATE,AVG(DISKU),COUNT(*) FROM MS WHERE TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(VD
    ATE, 'MM')) = TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(TRUNC(SYSDATE), 'MM'))-1 GROUP BY DNAME,TO_CHAR(VDATE,'MM')
    What i want to achieve is to get the average of performance parameters over a month and insert it into another table with same table definition.

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    ... and the question is?
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    Cool Bad, bad syntax...

    First of all, your syntax is incorrect, use this as starters:
    Code:
    INSERT INTO monthly
       SELECT DISTINCT AVG (mem), dname, AVG (cpu), vdate, AVG (disku), COUNT (*)
                  FROM ms
                 WHERE TO_NUMBER (TO_CHAR (vdate, 'MM')) =
                                    TO_NUMBER (TO_CHAR (TRUNC (SYSDATE), 'MM'))
                                    - 1
              GROUP BY dname, TO_CHAR (vdate, 'MM');
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    Exclamation error

    ORA-00979: not a GROUP BY expression

    am getting the above error :-(
    plz help

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    You don't need DISTINCT - the grouping will ensure that.

    The SELECT and GROUP BY need the same expression in them. You have vdate and TO_CHAR (vdate, 'MM').
    Which brings us to the real point: as the two tables have the same definition and vdate is presumably a DATE, how do you want to represent a month? e.g. should it be as 1st September 2009?

    Finally, do you really want to add together data for August 2009, August 2008, August 2007, etc etc?
    Last edited by DaPi; 09-22-2009 at 04:18 AM.
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    found the solution ..

    i need to use a group function in the select statement
    hence using a max(vdate) in select solved the issue

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    WOW ! ! ! ! You have a solution.

    Such a shame that no one on this planet knows what problem it solves.

    Shades of Douglas Adams . . . .
    "The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous" - Gibbon, quoted by R.P.Feynman

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaPi View Post
    WOW ! ! ! ! You have a solution.

    Such a shame that no one on this planet knows what problem it solves.

    Shades of Douglas Adams . . . .
    The answer is 42!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gandolf989 View Post
    The answer is 42!!!
    We all know that!
    What is the question?
    "The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous" - Gibbon, quoted by R.P.Feynman

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaPi View Post
    We all know that!
    What is the question?
    I think I recall Douglas Adams saying "What is 6 times 7"

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