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Avoid Duplicates in Oracle Forms

The document describes a technique to avoid duplicate records in an Oracle Forms block. It uses two calculated items, one in the data block to compare the current record to others, and one in a control block to summarize the comparisons and check if any duplicates are found. If the control block item is greater than 1, then duplicates exist in the data. The sample form DUPLICATES.fmb can be used to test this technique.

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Avoid Duplicates in Oracle Forms

The document describes a technique to avoid duplicate records in an Oracle Forms block. It uses two calculated items, one in the data block to compare the current record to others, and one in a control block to summarize the comparisons and check if any duplicates are found. If the control block item is greater than 1, then duplicates exist in the data. The sample form DUPLICATES.fmb can be used to test this technique.

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Oracle Forms

Avoid duplicated records in a block


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The purpose is to reject two records that contain duplicated values.

The technique used to solve this problem comes from the Kevin D Clarkes calculated item famous solution.

It uses two calculated items, one in the data bock and another in a control block.

The first calculated item (:DEPT.MATCH_FOUND) is added to the DEPT block. It contains the formula as follow:

Comparaison(:ctrl.charsave, :dept.deptno||:dept.dname)

Notice in this case,that we want to avoid duplicates on both DEPTNO and DNAME values.

Function COMPARAISON (val1 varchar2, val2 varchar2) Return number Is answer number := 0; Begin

if val1 = val2 then answer := 1; end if; return(answer); End;

COMPARAISON is a program unit stored in the Forms module.

The two values are compared to each other, then the function returns 1 (a value greatest than 0) if both the values are identical. The first value (:ctrl.charsave) contains the bakup value of the current record.

The DEPT block must have the following properties setting:

Query all records

YES

The CTRL block must have the following properties setting:

Query all records Single record Database data block

YES YES NO

The second calculated item (:CTRL.MATCH_FOUND) is added to the CTRL block. It summarize the values contained in all the rows of the DEPT block (dept.match_found). If the total is greater than 1, we have two duplicated data.

The sample dialog

Download the DUPLICATES.fmb sample dialog for you to test

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