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<p class="MsoNormal">We’re porting a Powerhouse app from Alpha to Itanium. Because of an unrelated issue (different rounding results!) I decided to drop all Oracle Rdb views and recreate them. The one shown here is fine on the Alpha but generates a cryptic
message on Itanium. I believe the error message is misleading.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SQL> create view ACCOUNT_INTEREST_INACTIVEA_VIEW<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> (ROYALTY_PAYOR,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> ACCOUNT_DESCRIPTION,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> STATEMENT_DATE) as<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> (select<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> C2.ROYALTY_PAYOR,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> 'Interest',<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> max(C2.STATEMENT_DATE)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> from ACCOUNT_INTEREST C2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> where (C2.TRANSACTION_TYPE = 'IN04')<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> group by C2.ROYALTY_PAYOR);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SQL> create view ACCOUNT_INTEREST_INACTIVEB_VIEW<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> (ROYALTY_PAYOR,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> ACCOUNT_DESCRIPTION,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> STATEMENT_DATE,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> CLOSING_BALANCE) as<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> (select<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> C2.ROYALTY_PAYOR,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> C2.ACCOUNT_DESCRIPTION,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> C2.STATEMENT_DATE,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> sum(C3.TRANSACTION_AMOUNT)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> from ACCOUNT_INTEREST_INACTIVEA_VIEW C2, ACCOUNT_INTEREST C3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> where ((C2.ROYALTY_PAYOR = C3.ROYALTY_PAYOR)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> and (C3.STATEMENT_DATE <= C2.STATEMENT_DATE))<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cont> group by C2.ROYALTY_PAYOR, C2.ACCOUNT_DESCRIPTION, C2.STATEMENT_DATE);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">%RDB-E-NO_META_UPDATE, metadata update failed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-RDB-E-INVALID_BLR, request BLR is incorrect at offset 203<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Could it be a recursion issue since the ACCOUNT_INTEREST table is used in both views?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Regards,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Martyn Thomson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Senior Technical Analyst, Development Services</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Information Technology Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#003D83;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">HP Advanced Solutions Inc.</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#003D83;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OpenVMS V8.4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PowerHouse 8.40G<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oracle Rdb V7.3-100<o:p></o:p></p>
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