As a workaround you can execute this statement using dynamic SQL since it
will go directly to the SQL engine which supports the CASE - something like
this will do:
execute immediate 'insert into sometable (somecolumn)
select case when z < :b1 then xvalue else yvalue end
from someothertable' using 1000;
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"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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 09:36:57 CST
