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Help needed in Recursive Subquery

RanagalJul 6 2018 — edited Jul 10 2018

I have the below table:

create table t1(col1, col2, col3, col4 )

as

select 0,1,'ABC',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 0,1,'ABC',2 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 0,1,'ABC',3 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 0,2,'ABC',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 0,2,'ABC',2 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 0,2,'ABC',3 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 0,3,'ABC',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 0,4,'ABC',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 0,5,'ABC' ,1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,11,'DEF',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,11,'DEF',2 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,11,'DEF',3 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,12,'DEF',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,12,'DEF',2 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,12,'DEF',3 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,13,'DEF',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,13,'DEF',2 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 1,13,'DEF',3 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,111,'XYZ',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,111,'XYZ',2 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,111,'XYZ',3 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,112,'XYZ',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,112,'XYZ',2 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,112,'XYZ',3 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,113,'GHI',1 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,113,'GHI',2 FROM DUAL

UNION ALL

select 11,113,'GHI',3 FROM DUAL;

And I want the data like below:

COL1COL2COL3COL4
11111XYZ3
11112XYZ3

I have started off something like below and is not working:

WITH DATA0(COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4) AS

(

    SELECT COL1, COL2, COL3, max(col4) FROM T1 WHERE COL1 = :user_value --In this case it is 0 (zero)

    group by col1, col2, COL3

    UNION ALL

    SELECT T1.COL1, T1.COL2, T1.COL3, MAX(T1.COL4) FROM DATA0, T1

    WHERE DATA0.COL2 = T1.COL1

)

SELECT * FROM DATA0

WHERE COL3 = 'XYZ';

Error:

ORA-32486: unsupported operation in recursive branch of recursive WITH clause

Kindly help me. Thanks in advance.

This post has been answered by Frank Kulash on Jul 6 2018
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