Question

I encountered the following confusing problem:

A DB table was updated through CSV file and some KSH script:

#!/bin/ksh

moduleDir=$ACS_INSTALL/FMC_TER_AM_028/Database
logFile=$moduleDir/install_scripts/`basename $0`_$(date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M').log

(
  cp -ri $moduleDir/ntscripts/datafiles/* $PROVHOME/database/ntscripts/datafiles
  echo "\n***********************"
  echo "* New/Modified files: *"
  echo "***********************"
  find $moduleDir/ntscripts/datafiles -type f | xargs ls -l
) 2>&1 | tee $logFile

echo "\nInstallation of Database completed\n"

The update is equal (under equal I mean that the visual result is the same as the INSERT command below) to the following INSERT query:

INSERT INTO tp_nt_mapping (TARIFF_PLAN, SERVICE_TYPE, NETWORK_TEMPLATE, IN_CREATE, IN_DELETE)
VALUES (171, 'Postpaid', '11', '', '')

When I’m using the following SELECT command:

SELECT * FROM tp_nt_mapping ORDER BY tariff_plan DESC

I’m able to see the new inserted record, but when I try with any of the following SELECT queries, I’m not:

SELECT * FROM tp_nt_mapping WHERE network_template = 11 ORDER BY tariff_plan DESC
SELECT * FROM tp_nt_mapping WHERE network_template = '11' ORDER BY tariff_plan DESC

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

The value in network_template field isn’t just '11' but '11' || chr(13).
So you have the carrige return char at the end.

You can fix the data by doing:

update tp_nt_mapping 
set network_template = replace(network_template, chr(13), '')

But better check why it was added on the first place….