ORACLE WITH AS 用法

记得以前在论坛里看到inthirties用到过WITH AS这个字眼，当时没特别在意。今天在一个帖子里又看到有人用这个，所以就去网上搜了搜相关内容，自己小试了一把，写下来，方便以后忘了的话学习。
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先举个例子吧：
有两张表，分别为A、B，求得一个字段的值先在表A中寻找，如果A表中存在数据，则输出A表的值；如果A表中不存在，则在B表中寻找，若B表中有相应记录，则输出B表的值；如果B表中也不存在，则输出"no records”字符串。
 with
sql1 as (select to_char(a) s_name from test_tempa),
sql2 as (select to_char(b) s_name from test_tempb where not exists (select s_name from sql1 where rownum=1))
select * from sql1
union all
select * from sql2
union all
select 'no records' from dual
where not exists (select s_name from sql1 where rownum=1)
and not exists (select s_name from sql2 where rownum=1);
再举个简单的例子
with a as (select * from test)
select * from a;
其实就是把一大堆重复用到的SQL语句放在with as 里面，取一个别名，后面的查询就可以用它
这样对于大批量的SQL语句起到一个优化的作用，而且清楚明了
下面是搜索到的英文文档资料
About Oracle WITH clause
Starting in Oracle9i release 2 we see an incorporation of the SQL-99 “WITH clause”, a tool for materializing subqueries to save Oracle from having to re-compute them multiple times.
The SQL “WITH clause” is very similar to the use of Global temporary tables (GTT), a technique that is often used to improve query speed for complex subqueries. Here are some important notes about the Oracle “WITH clause”:
   • The SQL “WITH clause” only works on Oracle 9i release 2 and beyond.
   • Formally, the “WITH clause” is called subquery factoring
   • The SQL “WITH clause” is used when a subquery is executed multiple times
   • Also useful for recursive queries (SQL-99, but not Oracle SQL)
To keep it simple, the fo