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Can we use to_char( ) with GROUP BY in HQL

while executing the following query using Hibernate
select to_char(vdadCloseDate,'yyyymm'), count(*) from RmDashboardAccountDataBe where 1=1 and vdadRmId in('MK13','MK11') GROUP BY TO_CHAR(vdadCloseDate,'YYYYMM')
I'm getting the following exception,
java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00979: not a GROUP BY expression
Is there any way to handle this issue?

This is "pure" Oracle SQL (i.e. not HQL) which looks exactly like your query (I had to use different table and column names, though):
SQL> select to_char(hire_date, 'yyyymm'), count(*)
2 from employees
3 where department_id in (10, 20)
4 group by to_char(hire_date, 'yyyymm');
TO_CHA COUNT(*)
------ ----------
200309 1
200508 1
200402 1
SQL>
So - yes, it works OK.
This is a link to HQL Group by clause which also suggests that such a query is perfectly valid (have a look so that I wouldn't have to copy/paste its contents over here).
That's why I asked whether you're sure that this is the query that returned ORA-00979 error. As you responded that it is, huh, I wouldn't know what to say ...

Invalid character encountered error - selecting rows

I am trying to get rows from table using SQLDeveloper by writing simple query:
SELECT * FROM agreements WHERE agreementkey = 1;
SELECT * FROM agreements WHERE agreementkey = 4;
but getting invalid character encountered error. It's not a problem with query(working using other keys, i.e. agreementkey = 3) but with XMLType column in this table - there is something wrong with data in some rows. Is there a way to select this affected row(I know keys of this affected rows) using queries? Maybe export to file or something? Solution of copying value manually is not acceptable.

Create an empty copy of the table and then run an INSERT into it based on a select from the original table but do it using the DML error logging clause.
This should show you any rows that fail to load and the reason for the failure.
CREATE TABLE test_agreements
AS SELECT * FROM agreements
WHERE ROWNUM <1;
INSERT INTO test_agreements
SELECT *
FROM agreements
LOG ERRORS REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
This will create you an error logging table called ERR$TEST_AGREEMENTS which you can query to find the problem rows.

Problem is in WHERE key = 1 cause key is a Reserve Word in Oracle. You should escape it like
SELECT * FROM table WHERE "key" = 1;

KEY is a reserved word so to overcome that you need to use double quotes "".
SELECT * FROM table WHERE "key" = 1;

I think the problem can be solved by putting the argument in quotes:
SELECT * FROM agreements WHERE agreementkey = "1";
I wish I were familiar with XML, but I have run into this with VARCHAR2 columns that are supposed to have all numeric values. Oracle looks at the request
where agreementkey = 1
and tries to convert agreementkey to a number rather than 1 to a varchar2.

If the database contains invalid characters I would try one the following:
Maybe the solution of BriteSponge will work, using an insert statemant with error logging clause.
Use datapump to export the data to a file. I think the log will contain information to identify the invalid columns.
There was a tool called "character set scanner" that checked the characters of the data of a table, here is some documentation: CSSCAN. Or maybe you can use the Database Migration Assistent for Unicode (DMU) mentioned in the same manual.
4- You can write a small PL/SQL program that retrieves the rows row by row and in case of an error catches the exception and notifies you about the row.
DECLARE
invalid_character_detected EXCEPTION;
PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(invalid_character_detected, ???); begin
for SELECT rowid into rec FROM agreements do begin
for
SELECT * into dummy
FROM agreements
where rowid=rec.rowid
do
null;
end loop;
except
WHEN invalid_character_detected THEN
dbms_ouput.put_line(rec.rowid)
end;
end loop;
end;
I did not compile and test the program. ??? is the (negative) error code, e.g. -XXXXX if the error is ORA-XXXXX

The column name is not valid - error

I am getting this error while I am fetching value from resultset.
Error : com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The column name company.short_name is not valid
CASE 1 :
select company.short_Name,location_name from company,location;
this query is executing fine on SQL Server but in my java code when I trying to retrieve value like resultset.getString("company.short_name"); that time this give the above error.
CASE 2 :
select company.short_Name short_name,location_name from company,location;
and retrieve value like resultset.getString("short_name"); than it work fine with both database MySQL and MSSQL.
I am migrating my database from MySQL to MSSQL.above case 1 is work fine in MySQL, but why it is not work in MSSQL?

resultset.getString("company.short_name"); is wrong here. No need to specifying fully qualified name while trying to fetch the data in your application. Just specify the column name like resultset.getString("short_name");.
Cause even though you say select company.short_Name ... query out the column name as short_Name since that's what defined in table schema.
In case both tables has same column which may result in ambiguity, give a alias name to the columns like
select company.short_Name as company_shortname,
location.short_Name as location_shortname,
location.location_name from company,location;

add the following to your application.properties file
spring.jpa.hibernate.naming.physical-strategy=org.hibernate.boot.model.naming.PhysicalNamingStrategyStandardImpl

When you do
select company.short_Name,location_name from company,location;
This query outs the column name short_Name and resultSet would also have short_Name
since the company.short_name doesnt exist you get an error.

the function resultset.getString(String columnLabel)
Retrieves the value of the designated column in the current row of this ResultSet object as a String in the Java programming language.
Parameters:
columnLabel the label for the column specified with the SQL AS clause. If the SQL AS clause was not specified, then the label is the name of the column
Returns:
the column value; if the value is SQL NULL, the value returned is null
Throws:
SQLException - if the columnLabel is not valid; if a database access error occurs or this method is called on a closed result set
in the function resultset.getString(String columnLabel), the arg is a column name for executing sql, the statement select company.short_Name,location_name from company,location; will get a result set, which has table headers short_Name,location_name

HQL does not ignore values with blank string in column

I am trying to setup a query for my application to pull only values from a table that have a specific column set. Mostly this column will be null, but if you edit and save the item on the application end without putting anything in this field, then it saves a blank string to that database field.
I have tried the TSQL query:
SELECT * from TABLE where COLUMN is not NULL AND COLUMN != ''
This query returns the results I need, but when I run the same query in HQL:
SELECT OBJECT from TABLE where COLUMN is not NULL and COLUMN <> ''
Then it still contains the values that have a blank string in that column. I have tried this using HQL with the operators <> and !=, and have also tried converting it to a criteria object using Restrictions.ne("column","") but nothing seems to provide the result I need.
I tried Length as in the comments, but had no luck. With the length in the query hibernate generates the full query as so. the time_clock_id column is the one that i'm having the problem with. Hibernate is set to SQLServerDialect
select timezone0_.time_zone_id as time1_368_, timezone0_.version as version368_, timezone0_.modification_timestamp as modifica3_368_, timezone0_.time_offset as time4_368_, timezone0_.modification_user as modifica5_368_, timezone0_.name as name368_, timezone0_.description as descript7_368_, timezone0_.active as active368_, timezone0_.time_clock_id as time9_368_ from time_zone timezone0_ where timezone0_.active=1 and (timezone0_.time_clock_id is not null) and len(timezone0_.time_clock_id)>0

Rookie Mistake. There was another place within my action class where I was using a different query to build the select list in the application. This was resulting in the list being overwritten with all values instead of those that use blank. After snipping this duplication I can use the operator column <> '' and I am getting the correct results

How to invertly select columns in sql?

If I have a SQL table with columns:
NR_A, NR_B, NR_C, NR_D, R_A, R_B, R_C
and on runtime, I add columns following the column's sequence such that the next column above would be R_D followed by R_E.
My problem is I need to reset the values of columns that starts with R_ (labeled that way to indicate that it is resettable) back to 0 each time I re-run my script . NR_ columns btw are fixed, so it is simpler to just say something like:
UPDATE table set col = 0 where column name starts with 'NR_'
I know that is not a valid SQL but I think its the best way to state my problem.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: btw, I use postgres (if that would help) and java.

SQL doesn't support dynamically named columns or tables--your options are:
statically define column references
use dynamic SQL to generate & execute the query/queries
Java PreparedStatements do not insulate you from this--they have the same issue, just in Java.

Are you sure you have to add columns during normal operations? Dynamic datamodels are most of the time a realy bad idea. You will see locking and performance problems.
If you need a dynamic datamodel, take a look at key-value storage. PostgreSQL also has the extension hstore, check the contrib.

If you don't have many columns and you don't expect the schema to change, just list them explicitly.
UPDATE table SET NR_A=0;
UPDATE table SET NR_B=0;
UPDATE table SET NR_C=0;
UPDATE table SET NR_D=0;
Otherwise, a simple php script could dynamically build and execute your query:
<?php
$db = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 user=postgres password=mypass dbname=mydb");
if(!$db) die("Failed to connect");
$reset_cols = ["A","B","C","D"];
foreach ($col in $reset_cols) {
$sql = "UPDATE my_table SET NR_" . $col . "=0";
pg_query($db,$sql);
}
?>
You could also lookup table's columns in Postgresql by querying the information schema columns tables, but you'll likely need to write a plpgsql function to loop over the query results (one row per table column starting with "NR_").

if you rather using sql query script, you should try to get the all column based on given tablename.
maybe you could try this query to get all column based on given tablename to use in your query.
SELECT attname FROM
pg_attribute, pg_type
WHERE typname = 'tablename' --your table name
AND attrelid = typrelid
AND attname NOT IN ('cmin', 'cmax', 'ctid', 'oid', 'tableoid', 'xmin', 'xmax')
--note that this attname is sys column
the query would return all column with given tablename except system column