RE: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

Truncate is a DDL. So you can't just do "truncate" like you would with delete which is a DML.
You didn't say which version of Oracle you are running. If it's 8i, do  

execute immediate "truncate table .........";  

Otherwise, look into DBMS_SQL.  

Richard Ji

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Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 5:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I am not a coder but I received this from one of our developers. I can't find anything about this anywhere. Can someone tell me how to make the truncate work?

Thanks!

R.Smith

In a DB procedure, I wanted to include the following SQL: BEGIN
 TRUNCATE TABLE LOT837_GLOBAL_TBL_KMG;
END; Error messages:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "TABLE" when expecting one of the following:
  := . ( @ % ;
The symbol ":= was inserted before "TABLE" to continue.
(It does not like it, if you take out TABLE, either.)

So, I had to settle for the following SQL:

BEGIN
 DELETE LOT837_GLOBAL_TBL_KMG;
END; Do you know why I can not use the TRUNCATE command?

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