From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Apr 15 15:37:55 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3FKbt8l018617 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:37:55 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3FKbsem018611 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:37:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 1E2DA183D34; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:35:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15466-01; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:35:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8E975183CDE; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:35:40 -0500 (EST) From: Katz.C@forces.gc.ca To: lex.de.haan@naturaljoin.nl, Katz.C@forces.gc.ca Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: RE: association operator (=>) and SQL Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:33:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <20050415192848.3843D114603@mx03.forces.gc.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 18501 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: Katz.C@forces.gc.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: Katz.C@forces.gc.ca X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: Thanks Lex, We're working with an overloaded Oracle supplied function. If we don't specify the parameter name we get another error. But we'll try to stay in pl/sql. Thanks again chaim -----Original Message----- From: Lex de Haan [mailto:lex.de.haan@naturaljoin.nl] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:04 PM To: Katz.C@forces.gc.ca Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: association operator (=>) and SQL No, you can't -- because you are now in the SQL world :-) so just specify "select greeting('Joe') from dual" and it will do the trick... Cheers, Lex. > SQL> create function greeting (p_name varchar2) > 2 return varchar2 > 3 is > 4 begin > 5 return 'Hello '||p_name; > 6 end; > 7 / > > Function created. > > SQL> select greeting(p_name=>'Joe') > 2 from dual; > select greeting(p_name=>'Joe') > * > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l