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How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

avatar — Tue, 03 May 2016 12:43:24 GMT

I want to search for list of drugs in oracle database. can I list all the drugs in proc sql in where clause as below?

WHERE (
(A.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('ARIPIPRAZOLE',' ASENAPINE',BREXPIPRAZOLE)

I got ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !, !!, &, )

Please help

Thanks,

Re: How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

LinusH — Tue, 03 May 2016 12:53:50 GMT

CONTAINS doesn't support a list as argument. You need to combine them with OR.

Re: How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

avatar — Tue, 03 May 2016 13:09:55 GMT

With below code got error again:
ERROR: CONTAINS operator requires character operands.
A.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('ARIPIPRAZOLE' or 'ASENAPINE' or 'BREXPIPRAZOLE').
Anything wrong?

Re: How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

Reeza — Tue, 03 May 2016 13:19:04 GMT

The syntax is incorrect, you need a contains for each argument, definitely a bit cumbersome.

A.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('ARIPIPRAZOLE') 
                                 or CONTAINS ('ASENAPINE')
                                 or ...

Re: How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

RW9 — Tue, 03 May 2016 13:40:17 GMT

Hi,

proc sql;
  select *
  from   <YOUR_TABLE> A
  where  A.PRODUCT_DESC_1 in ("ARIPIPRAZOLE","ASENAPINE","BREXPIPRAZOLE");
quit;

Re: How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

avatar — Tue, 03 May 2016 13:44:27 GMT

I find variations in drug name like ARIPIPRAZOLE++, ARIPIPRAZOLE
Contains brings both. I will go with contains
WHERE t1.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('ARIPIPRAZOLE')
OR t1.PRODUCT_DESC_1 CONTAINS ('CLOZAPINE');
This code worked .
Thank you so much!!

Re: How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

RW9 — Tue, 03 May 2016 13:56:43 GMT

There are other constructs which may help you:

where XYZ like "*ABC*";

will give you all which contain the string ABC.

Re: How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

avatar — Tue, 03 May 2016 14:01:55 GMT

I cannot list all drugs using like, right?
WHERE t1.PRODUCT_DESC_1 like ('*ARIPIPRAZOLE*','*ASENAPINE*')

Re: How to find list of drugs in oracle db?

RW9 — Tue, 03 May 2016 14:07:52 GMT

No, like is used for pattern matching. Why are you looking for drug names by the way? Should you data not be encoded with WHODrug codes - that is not only safer (you don't miss ones) its simpler as well because you can use higher level terms to bring out groups of related drugs. Also its standard in the industry.