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Re: Dynamic SQL question

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:33:01 -0500
Message-ID: <20040319213301.GC3578@mladen.wangtrading.com>


You could try executing something like:

ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS='6512 trace name errorstack forever,level 10';

that should give you not only the statement that failed, but also the bind variables, which should tell you where the problem is.

On 03/19/2004 04:27:54 PM, Deanna Schneider wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to write a procedure that includes dynamic sql (8.17). If I don't
> use the dynamic sql, the query runs fine. If I do, it fails with a numeric
> or value error (ORA-06512).
>
> Can anyone see what I'm missing?
> This works:
> UPDATE resourcegroup
> SET lft = DECODE( (SIGN((lft/drop_left)-1) + SIGN((lft/drop_right)-1)),
> 0, lft-1, 2, lft-2, lft),
> rgt = DECODE( (SIGN((rgt/drop_left)-1) + SIGN((rgt/drop_right)-1)),
> 0, rgt-1, 2, rgt-2, lft)
> WHERE lft > drop_left;
>
>
> This fails:
> v_update := 'UPDATE '|| in_tablename ||
> 'SET lft = DECODE( (SIGN((lft/:1)-1) + SIGN((lft/:2)-1)), 0,
> lft-1, 2, lft-2, lft), '||
> 'rgt = DECODE( (SIGN((rgt/:3)-1) + SIGN((rgt/:4)-1)), 0, rgt-1,
> 2, rgt-2, lft) ' ||
> 'WHERE lft > :5';
>
> EXECUTE IMMEDIATE v_update USING drop_left, drop_right, drop_left,
> drop_right, drop_left;
>
> I'm just using the linewrap concantenation for use of readability for
> testing. It fails when it's all on one line as well.
>
> Thanks.
> -Deanna
>
>
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