Create view in Oracle syntax error

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SELECT D1.DISTRICT_NAME, E1.EMP_FNAME, E1.EMP_LNAME, T1.TAX_YEAR, T1.DATE_LAST_CALC
FROM DISTRICT AS D1, EMPLOYEE AS E1, TOTAL_PAB AS T1
WHERE T1.DATE_LAST_CALC BETWEEN '2015-04-01' AND '2015-04-04'
OR '2015-06-01' - T1.DATE_LAST_CALC > 175
ORDER BY DISTRICT_NAME, EMP_LNAME;

I'm trying to create a view in Oracle.

Write a query (and save as a view) to display all employees that need to have their TOTAL_PAB recalculated. They need to be recalculated if their DATE_LAST_CALC is between April 1st, 2015 and April 4th, 2015 (there was a virus report in that time frame so they want to recalculate these) OR the difference between June 1 st, 2015 (beginning of fiscal year) and the DATE_LAST_CALC is greater than 175 days. Sort by the District’s name and then by the employee’s last name

When I try to run this, I get ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended. I don't know what is wrong with the syntax. Any help please.

Posted 22-Nov-15 6:46am

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Updated 22-Nov-15 6:56am

Suvendu Shekhar Giri

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PIEBALDconsult 22-Nov-15 13:43pm

Not sure about Oracle, but SQL Server doesn't like ORDER BY in views; you should consider removing that, it doesn't belong in the view.

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jgakenhe · Answer 1 · 2015-11-22T13:04:00

The ORDER BY clause is supported in recent versions of Oracle.

In your query I see a couple of problems. The first is if the T1.DATE_LAST_CALC column is of data type DATE, you'll get an error. In Oracle you have to convert to date before comparing. Secondly, you're trying to do 2 things here. Try putting brackets around the two dates your are subtracting.

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OR '2015-06-01' - T1.DATE_LAST_CALC > 175

This should be close; if not, let me know:

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CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW your_view AS
SELECT D1.DISTRICT_NAME, E1.EMP_FNAME, E1.EMP_LNAME, T1.TAX_YEAR, T1.DATE_LAST_CALC
FROM DISTRICT AS D1, EMPLOYEE AS E1, TOTAL_PAB AS T1
WHERE T1.DATE_LAST_CALC BETWEEN TO_DATE('2015-04-01', 'yyyy-mm-dd') AND TO_DATE('2015-04-04', 'yyyy-mm-dd')
OR (TO_DATE('2015-06-01', 'yyyy-mm-dd') - T1.DATE_LAST_CALC) > 175
ORDER BY DISTRICT_NAME, EMP_LNAME;