Re: Bad day, or really not possible?

"Jon Waterhouse" <jonwaterhouse_at_mail.gov.nf.ca> wrote in message news:3c7bea6f.0_at_209.128.1.3...
> Let me rephrase that:
>
> Why is this a perfectly respectable command in SQLPLUS, or to be executed
as
> dynamic SQL from a stored procedure, but not valid as static SQL in a
stored
> procedure or as a PL/SQL command?
>
> "Jon Waterhouse" <jonwaterhouse_at_mail.gov.nf.ca> wrote in message
> news:3c7bda8b.0_at_209.128.1.3...
> > INSERT into sometable
> > (somecolumn)
> > SELECT CASE WHEN z <1000 THEN xvalue ELSE yvalue END from
> someothertable;
> >
> > Says it's not expecting the symbol case.
> > Just not possible, or am I doing something completely silly?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Because pl/sql is always at least one release behind with respect to acceptable sql. This should have been resolved in 9i

Hth

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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