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On Mon, 04 May 1998 15:58:34 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I looked in the Oracle book, but didn't see an exception that'd be raised
>if I tried to do a select...into with a non-existing table.
>
>I'm trying to handle a case where my code is first run, and its private
>table hasn't been initialized.
>
>Is there a way to handle this condition?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Greg
If you are using 'static' sql in pl/sql, then the block of code (be it a named procedure or anonymous pl/sql block) will never compile -- the code will never execute. You can't catch any exceptions in this case since the code itself never runs.
If you are using dbms_sql, then the call to dbms_sql.parse will throw an exception and sqlcode will be set to -942, Table or view does not exist.
Thomas Kyte
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