如何测试Oracle中的列是否等于empty_clob()?

时间:2009-02-06 18:15:50

标签: oracle clob

天真FOO = empty_clob()抱怨不兼容的类型。我尝试使用谷歌搜索,但(再一次)在寻找甲骨文帮助方面收效甚微。感谢。

5 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:16)

您是否只想检查没有任何长度的CLOB?虽然不完全是你的要求,但它基本上是一回事吗?

select *
  from bar
 where dbms_lob.getlength(foo) = 0;

这是完整的测试:

SQL> create table bar (foo clob);

Table created.

SQL> insert into bar values (empty_clob());

1 row created.

SQL> select *
  2    from bar
  3  where dbms_lob.getlength(foo) = 0;

FOO
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

答案 1 :(得分:13)

如果您尝试在PL / SQL中进行比较,您可以像Igor的解决方案那样测试相等性

SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf

  1  DECLARE
  2     dummy  clob;
  3  BEGIN
  4       dummy := empty_clob();
  5        IF dummy = empty_clob() THEN
  6           dbms_output.put_line( 'Dummy is empty' );
  7        ELSE
  8           dbms_output.put_line( 'Dummy is not empty' );
  9        END IF;
 10* END;
SQL> /
Dummy is empty

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

如果您尝试在SQL中执行此操作,那么您需要使用DBMS_LOB.COMPARE函数。表中的LOB列实际上是一个LOB定位器(即指针),因此您真正关心的是LOB指向的值与EMPTY_CLOB()函数返回的LOB定位符指向的值相当。

SQL> desc bar
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- ------------------------

 FOO                                                CLOB

SQL> insert into bar values ('123');

1 row created.

SQL> insert into bar values( empty_clob() );

1 row created.

SQL> insert into bar values( empty_clob() );

1 row created.

SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf

  1  select count(*)
  2    from bar
  3*  where dbms_lob.compare( foo, empty_clob() ) = 0
SQL> /

  COUNT(*)
----------
         2

SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf

  1  select count(*)
  2    from bar
  3*  where dbms_lob.compare( foo, empty_clob() ) != 0
SQL> /

  COUNT(*)
----------
         1

答案 2 :(得分:3)

这样的东西应该适用于初始化:

DECLARE
   dummy  clob;
   dummy2 clob;
BEGIN
     dummy := empty_clob();
      IF dummy = empty_clob() THEN
         dummy2 := dummy;
      END IF;
END;

答案 3 :(得分:1)

在SQLplus中测试空clobs的一种简单方法是在执行测试之前将所有CLOBS转换为varchar2(使用TO_CHAR函数):

SELECT *
  FROM table1
  WHERE TO_CHAR(table1.column1) IS NULL

答案 4 :(得分:0)

DECLARE
    dummy    CLOB := 'fxsgf';
    dummy1   CLOB;
BEGIN
    IF dummy1 = EMPTY_CLOB ()
    THEN
        DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('Dummy1 is empty');
    ELSE
        DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('Dummy1 is not empty');
    END IF;

    IF dummy = EMPTY_CLOB ()
    THEN
        DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('Dummy is empty');
    ELSE
        DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('Dummy is not empty');
    END IF;
END;