It's not a bug, if no data is found then a MAX will still return a row (with
NULL).

This should work:

INSERT INTO EMP(EMPID,ENAME) VALUES( (SELECT NVL(MAX(EMPID),0) FROM EMP_REG
WHERE ENAME='SACHI'),'DFGH');

-----Original Message-----
From: Sachidananda_T
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x41787493.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 3:25 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: Insert problem


Yes,this is good.

But sometimes the inner select return NULL even though select fetches a
record.

Don't know why,could be a bug.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bhat Vikas
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:18 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: Insert problem

This is just great....didnt know about this till now....

Thanks Sachi...

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sachidananda_T
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:43 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: Insert problem


Hi Vikas,

Try this,

insert into t1 values((select 1 from dual));

This should work.

One more example

insert into dept(dno,dname) values(10,'purchasing');

insert into emp(empno,dept)
values(10,(select dno from dept where dname='purchasing'))

Regards
Sachi

-----Original Message-----
From: Bhat Vikas
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x57980358.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:38 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: Insert problem

Hi Salahuddin,

I know this but the example given below was for Sachi, because he said
in his reply that putting select inside a values clause of insert works
in Oracle 9i. Since I couldn't get the thing working, I thought maybe I
was missing something here.

Thanks and regards,
Vikas Bhat
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FBSI Pvt Ltd.,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Salahuddin
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x65995950.[Email address protected]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:30 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: Insert problem


Try this

insert into t1(a,b) select 1, 2 from dual;


Regards,
Salahuddin







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