creating parameterized views in oracle11g

Question

I have a big query with nesting and left join and Ineed to create a view out of it so as not to run it from the application. The issue is I need the date range and some othe

Answer 1

To use parameters in a view one way is to create a package which will set the values of your parameters and have functions that can be called to get those values. For example:

create or replace package MYVIEW_PKG as
  procedure SET_VALUES(FROMDATE date, TODATE date);

  function GET_FROMDATE
    return date;

  function GET_TODATE
    return date;
end MYVIEW_PKG;

create or replace package body MYVIEW_PKG as
  G_FROM_DATE   date;
  G_TO_DATE     date;

  procedure SET_VALUES(P_FROMDATE date, P_TODATE date) as
  begin
    G_FROM_DATE := P_FROMDATE;
    G_TO_DATE := P_TODATE;
  end;

  function GET_FROMDATE
    return date is
  begin
    return G_FROM_DATE;
  end;

  function GET_TODATE
    return date is
  begin
    return G_TO_DATE;
  end;
end MYVIEW_PKG;

Then your view can be created thus:

create or replace view myview as
    select 
        d.dateInRange as dateval,
        eventdesc,
        nvl(td.dist_ucnt, 0) as dist_ucnt
    from (
        select 
            MYVIEW_PKG.GET_FROMDATE + rownum - 1 as dateInRange
        from all_objects
        where rownum <= MYVIEW_PKG.GET_FROMDATE - MYVIEW_PKG.GET_TODATE + 1
    ) d
    left join (
        select 
            to_char(user_transaction.transdate,'dd-mon-yyyy') as currentdate,
            count(distinct(grauser_id)) as dist_ucnt,
            eventdesc 
        from
            gratransaction, user_transaction 
      where gratransaction.id = user_transaction.trans_id and 
      user_transaction.transdate between MYVIEW_PKG.GET_FROMDATE and MYVIEW_PKG.GET_TODATE
        group by  to_char(user_transaction.transdate, 'dd-mon-yyyy'), eventdesc 
    ) td on td.currentdate = d.dateInRange order by d.dateInRange asc;

And to run it you must set the values first:

exec MYVIEW_PKG.SET_VALUES(trunc(sysdate)-1,trunc(sysdate));

And then calls to it will use these values:

select * from myview;