Re: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

Ron,

Trunacte is DDL not DML. The easiest was around this is to wrap it in an execute immediate command:

BEGIN
   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'TRUNCATE TABLE LOT837_GLOBAL_TBL_KMG'; END;
/

Note that the semi-colon is outside the quotes - don't place a semi-colon inside the quotes.

Regards,

     Mark.

                                                                                                                   
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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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