Apologies for sharing little information than needed. Should have provided the entire thing. Here's it.
we are sending pre-check patching information from many DB's via a tool to some logs on another server, that server has the main DB which will store this info for comparing later on. We are using the tags "<>" to make our statements unique for identification.
The logfile info will look like this:
StepLog:Info: dbname instance_name hostname objnames
and so on..
From the database on that server, how do I extract only the values between the tags to store/insert in a table, and skip the tags. Since the info will me from multiple DB's cannot hard quote info.
Thanks.
Based on the solution with regexp split you may run following query.
Note however, that you must know the maximal number of the resulting columns in advance.
with t1 as (select 1 rn, 'Orcl, orcl, linux box, Pass, tablespace_name1, tablespace_name2' col from dual union all
select 2 rn, 'Orcl2, orcl2, linux box2, Pass2, tablespace_name12, tablespace_name22' col from dual),
t2 as (select rownum colnum from dual connect by level <= 6 /* (max) number of columns */)
select t1.rn, t2.colnum, rtrim(ltrim(regexp_substr(t1.col,'[^,]+', 1, t2.colnum))) col from t1, t2
where regexp_substr(t1.col, '[^,]+', 1, t2.colnum) is not null
order by rn,colnum;
This gives you the row, column and key view:
RN COLNUM COL
----- ---------- ------------------
1 1 Orcl
1 2 orcl
1 3 linux box
1 4 Pass
1 5 tablespace_name1
1 6 tablespace_name2
2 1 Orcl2
2 2 orcl2
2 3 linux box2
2 4 Pass2
2 5 tablespace_name12
2 6 tablespace_name22
You may use the PIVOT query to get the result in flat table
with t1 as (select 1 rn, 'Orcl, orcl, linux box, Pass, tablespace_name1, tablespace_name2' col from dual union all
select 2 rn, 'Orcl2, orcl2, linux box2, Pass2, tablespace_name12, tablespace_name22' col from dual),
t2 as (select rownum colnum from dual connect by level <= 6 /* (max) number of columns */),
t3 as (select t1.rn, t2.colnum, rtrim(ltrim(regexp_substr(t1.col,'[^,]+', 1, t2.colnum))) col from t1, t2
where regexp_substr(t1.col, '[^,]+', 1, t2.colnum) is not null)
select * from t3
PIVOT (max(col) col for (colnum) in
(1 as "1",
2 as "2",
3 as "3",
4 as "4",
5 as "5",
6 as "6"))
order by rn;
RN 1_COL 2_COL 3_COL 4_COL 5_COL 6_COL
----- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
1 Orcl orcl linux box Pass tablespace_name1 tablespace_name2
2 Orcl2 orcl2 linux box2Pass2 tablespace_name12 tablespace_name22
Again, as you see you must list all the resulting columns in the query.
