Re: what is wrong with this procedure

Well, for one thing, I think you need to use dynamic sql (the DBMS_SQL package) to use a variable as a table name.

At 01:17 PM 6/1/01 -0800, you wrote:
>create or replace procedure remove_bucket
>as
>cursor c1 is
>select table_name from (
>select table_name from user_constraints
>where r_constraint_name ='PK_T_ACC_USAGE_1');
>temp_name varchar2(255);
>temp_count number(10);
>str varchar2(2000);
>begin
>open c1;
>loop
>fetch c1 into temp_name;
>exit when c1%notfound;
>select count(*) into temp_count from temp_name;
>dbms_output.put_line(temp_count);
>end loop;
>close c1;
>EXCEPTION
>WHEN OTHERS
>THEN DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('INVALID SYNTAX');
>end;
>/
>
>I am geeting following error:
>
>15/1 PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
>15/38 PLS-00201: identifier 'TEMP_NAME' must be declared
>
>what is the possible solution...
>
>Thanks
>Harvinder
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