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krish001
Yak Posting Veteran

61 Posts

Posted - 2009-12-18 : 15:07:04

select Number from AGENT_HIERARCHY
where level1 = '1'

By this quer i get Number when '1' is there in column(level1) but my problem is there are more levels like level2,level3,level4,level5
and i need to check for '1' in each and every columns(level2,level3,level4,level5) is present or not????

How can i solve this.....plz help

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2009-12-18 : 15:11:57

You've got a design issue. Because of that, you'll have to do a query like this:

select Number from AGENT_HIERARCHY
where level1 = '1' OR level2 = '1' OR level3 = '1' OR ...

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2009-12-20 : 04:12:36

as tkizer pointed out it would have been better if you had a single column level containing values 1,2,3... and each level data will be represented by a new row

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