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Re: "?" in select statement

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:44:40 +0100
Message-ID: <3d0da178$0$232$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>


Not in PL/SQL or straight SQL it is however used by some languages as a place holder for a bind variable. This certainly applies to ASP and I believe to jdbc as well.

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Niall Litchfield
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"john bailo" <jabailo_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:64fd0169.0206121404.30eec282_at_posting.google.com...

> is the "?" a valid character in PL/SQL ?
>
> for instance, is this valid in oracle
>
> Select * from MyTable Where TableID = ?
>
>
> how about in jdbc, java.sql?
>
> i see it used in a java class file, but i cant understand how it could
work
> for ms/sql
Received on Mon Jun 17 2002 - 03:44:40 CDT

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