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Getting error single-row subquery returns more than one row when use analytical function but not get

Shadow123Oct 19 2015 — edited Oct 20 2015

Hi Gurus

I appreciate if someone help me out, I'm getting error single row subquery returns more than one row , I have the following data.

Sample data

WITH datum AS
(
SELECT to_date('25-SEP-2015','DD-MON-YYYY')  first_dt ,48 case_id FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT to_date('26-SEP-2015','DD-MON-YYYY')   ,48 case_id FROM dual
)
SELECT d.*
,(SELECT MIN(CASE WHEN d.first_dt>to_date('25-SEP-2015','dd-mon-yyyy') THEN d.first_dt ELSE NULL END ) OVER (PARTITION BY case_id) FROM datum WHERE case_id=d.case_id) min_analytical_fun

FROM datum d
WHERE first_dt=to_date('25-SEP-2015','dd-mon-yyyy');

Error

ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row

01427. 00000 -  "single-row subquery returns more than one row"

*Cause:   

*Action:

but when I use the logic by using sub query then I'm not getting any error, can someone explain this to me. Thanks in advance.

Sample data

WITH datum AS
(
SELECT to_date('25-SEP-2015','DD-MON-YYYY')  first_dt ,48 case_id FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT to_date('26-SEP-2015','DD-MON-YYYY')   ,48 case_id FROM dual
)
SELECT d.*
--,(SELECT MIN(CASE WHEN d.first_dt>to_date('25-SEP-2015','dd-mon-yyyy') THEN d.first_dt ELSE NULL END ) OVER (PARTITION BY case_id) FROM datum WHERE case_id=d.case_id) min_analytical_fun
,(
SELECT MIN(first_dt) FROM datum  dd
WHERE dd.case_id =d.case_id
AND dd.first_dt>to_date('25-SEP-2015','DD-MON-YYYY')
) min_sub_query

FROM datum d
WHERE first_dt=to_date('25-SEP-2015','dd-mon-yyyy');

Query Output

FIRST_DT, CASE_ID, MIN_SUB_QUERY

25-SEP-15      48                26-SEP-15

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