RE: ORA-24347 Error

no specific knowledge on this one, BUT -- *often* the problem with interactive working versus anything else not working is the environment, especially including the search path for commands.

The other possibility that occurs to me (since it dies) is that via the toolset they have a wrapper in there somewhere that traps warnings and dies whereas the other pathways may be warning tolerant. Maybe they have a switch for tolerance level, although I'm not sure you *want* a report that counts
(or discounts) the undefined value in an aggregate as anything but a NULL
(undefined) result. What is, after all, the average of 1, 2, 3, and "I don't
know"?
Still, I suppose there are uses for getting aggregate functions on the known values of a set of rows as long as you know that is what you're doing.

I'm also wierded out by the error message -- do they mean a nullable column, or a NULL value found in a column, or an entire column has NULL values for the rows selected? (Don't respond to this musing, I know I can just look it up, but I find the expression "NULL column" to be annoying.)

mwf

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Subject: ORA-24347 Error

First up my hopes of getting to the bottom of this are fairly slim
(because I can't get at the code), but I figure that there are enough
smart folk here that someone may have seen similar behaviour before.

Our ERP supplier sells a (really quite good) MsExcel add-in that can be used to query the database and return purty reports. This can be run interactively (by report designers) or via ole automation (by a report scheduler).

Our report designers have updated one of the suite of management reports and it runs just fine when run interactively. When scheduled however the log that the add-in produces shows this

 select v.dim4 AS workord, decode(v.dim5,' ','NA',v.dim5) AS activity, dBF.description AS

      workord_text, NVL(v.chrg_stat, 'UNASSIGNED') AS chg_stat, jct.description AS job_code_text,

       act.description AS activity_text, v.period AS period, SUM(v.value_1) AS value_1

      ,MIN(icp.icp_1) AS icp_1,MIN(icp.icp_2) AS icp_2,MIN(icp.icp_3) AS icp_3,MIN(icp.icp_4) AS

      icp_4,MIN(icp.icp_5) AS icp_5,MIN(icp.icp_6) AS icp_6,MIN(icp.icp_7) AS icp_7,MIN(icp.icp_8) AS

      icp_8,MIN(icp.icp_9) AS icp_9,MIN(icp.icp_10) AS icp_10,MIN(icp.icp_11) AS icp_11,MIN(icp.icp_12)

      AS icp_12,MIN(icp.icp_13) AS icp_13,MIN(icp.icp_14) AS icp_14,MIN(icp.icp_15) AS

      icp_15,MIN(icp.icp_16) AS icp_16,MIN(icp.icp_17) AS icp_17,MIN(icp.icp_18) AS

      icp_18,MIN(icp.icp_19) AS icp_19,MIN(icp.icp_20) AS icp_20,MIN(icp.icp_21) AS

      icp_21,MIN(icp.icp_22) AS icp_22,MIN(icp.icp_23) AS icp_23,MIN(icp.icp_24) AS icp_24

      ,MIN(icp.icp_1) AS icp_curper FROM agldescription dBF, agldescription act, aglrelvalue jc,

      agldescription jct ,uhsicpdetail icp, uvidaenq3_chgstat v WHERE v.client = 'AC' AND v.period

      >= 200501 AND v.period <= 200501 AND v.dim2 IN ('1010', '1011', '3010', '3110') AND (dBF.client

• v.client AND dBF.attribute_id = 'BF' AND dBF.language = 'EN' AND dBF.dim_value = v.dim4) AND (jc.client = v.client AND jc.attribute_id = 'B1' AND jc.rel_attr_id = 'RA' AND decode(v.dim5,' ','NA',v.dim5) BETWEEN jc.att_val_from AND jc.att_val_to) AND
  (jct.client = jc.client AND
  jct.attribute_id = jc.rel_attr_id AND jct.language = 'EN' AND jct.dim_value = jc.rel_value) AND (act.client = v.client AND act.attribute_id = 'B1' AND act.language = 'EN' AND act.dim_value = decode(v.dim5,' ','NA',v.dim5)) AND v.dim6 = '000225' AND
  (icp.client(+) = v.client AND
  icp.resource_id(+) = v.dim6 AND icp.chrg_stat(+) = v.chrg_stat AND icp.fiscal_year(+) = v.fiscal_year) GROUP BY v.chrg_stat, jct.description, v.dim4,decode(v.dim5,' ','NA',v.dim5), dBF.description, act.description, v.period ORDER BY v.chrg_stat, jct.description, v.dim4, decode(v.dim5,' ','NA',v.dim5), dBF.description, act.description, v.period 0.16: Cursor opened. 14:15:56 > ORA-24347: Warning of a NULL column in an aggregate function

and the process dies.

If I run the offending sql through sqlplus it runs successfully. If we run the report interactively it completes successfully. If I try to capture the error either through an event or my trigger :( I get nothing. I shall of course be logging support calls with both the vendor and Oracle,. but if anyone else has encountered this before I'd be grateful for any pointers. I am aware that this is a 'warning' rather than an 'error'.

Environment DataServer 9.2.0.3, Client 9.2.0.3 ODBC Driver 9.2.0.1 All on Win2k sp3.

Cheers

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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