Re: List on SQL output vs. one row -- MIDRANGE-L

Hi Jim,

At first I thought it defines COLUMN_VALUE based on the first value, e.g. S.SECURITY_LEVEL, so I tried wrapping it in VARCHAR(). It didn't help. So I wrapped them all in VARCHAR() and that worked:

select HEADING, COLUMN_VALUE
from qsys2.security_info s,
lateral(values
('SECURITY_LEVEL', VARCHAR(S.SECURITY_LEVEL)),
('PENDING_SECURITY_LEVEL', VARCHAR(S.PENDING_SECURITY_LEVEL)),
('PASSWORD_LEVEL', VARCHAR(S.PASSWORD_LEVEL)),
('AUDITING_LEVEL', VARCHAR(S.AUDITING_LEVEL)),
('AUDIT_JOURNAL_RECEIVER', VARCHAR(S.AUDIT_JOURNAL_RECEIVER))
) AS T(HEADING, COLUMN_VALUE) ;

I was testing on PUB400, and S.PENDING_SECURITY_LEVEL was null, which may or may not have anything to do with how it defines COLUMN_VALUE.

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On 8/16/2024 7:43 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

This works perfectly for all the integer columns in the row, but fails with
a cast error when it runs into a VARCHAR field.
I suspect the problem is COLUMN_VALUE is getting defined as an integer,
what I don't know is how to make it a VARCHAR when needed.
This is where my limits of SQL come blazing out. Suggestions?

select HEADING, COLUMN_VALUE
from qsys2.security_info s,
lateral(values ('SECURITY_LEVEL', S.SECURITY_LEVEL),
('PENDING_SECURITY_LEVEL', S.PENDING_SECURITY_LEVEL),
('PASSWORD_LEVEL', S.PASSWORD_LEVEL),
('AUDITING_LEVEL', S.AUDITING_LEVEL),
('AUDIT_JOURNAL_RECEIVER', S.AUDIT_JOURNAL_RECEIVER)
) AS T(HEADING, COLUMN_VALUE);

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:16 PM Rob Berendt<robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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select HEADING, COLUMN_VALUE
from qsys2.security_info s,
lateral(values ('SECURITY_LEVEL', S.SECURITY_LEVEL),
('PENDING_SECURITY_LEVEL',
S.PENDING_SECURITY_LEVEL),
('PASSWORD_LEVEL', S.PASSWORD_LEVEL)
) AS T(HEADING, COLUMN_VALUE);

Results:
SECURITY_LEVEL redacted
PENDING_SECURITY_LEVEL
PASSWORD_LEVEL redacted

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 11:59 AM Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Given the incredibly simple SQL statement :
SELECT * FROM QSYS2.SECURITY_INFO ;

Is there a way to get the results which include many columns to show up

as

a list as opposed to one very wide row? (from SQL Scripts in ACS)

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
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