RE: need help with execute immediate from a script

Your "using v_var1,v_var2" shouldn't be appended to the string that represents the dynamic SQL to execute; the "using..." is part of the syntac for execute immediate. An Oracle error message being what they are, they don't always highlight the correct cause of fault, but will identify some other error located close to where the real fault lies.

For your solution, remove the "||" that occurs after ":2"

It is also unlikely that you can select "*" into TOTAL, which has been declared as a NUMBER. Consider "count(*)" perhaps?

-----Original Message-----
From: rgaffuri_at_cox.net [mailto:rgaffuri_at_cox.net] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:59 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: need help with execute immediate from a script

Im calling a script that uses dynamic sql. Im passing in a value as well. I keep getting

SP2-0552: Bind variable "2" not declared.

Here is a code snipped

declare
  v_var1 Varchar2(30) := 'TEST';
  v_var2 VARCHAR2(30) := '&1';
  total number;
begin

execute immediate ' Select * ' ||


                  ' from user_objects '||

                  ' where object_name = :1 '||

                  ' or object_name = :2 '||

                 using v_var1,v_var2
  into total;

end;
/

I call it as follows:

@script HELLO

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