At the C level (not C#) with OCI you can say parse and execute which will do
what you want. So you could write a small C dll and pass it the string and
have it parse and return sucess or the error message.
Jim
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"Axe" <way_at_too.much.spam> wrote in message
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> I'm working on a windows app using C# that will be able to connect to
either
> SQL Server or Oracle. I'll part of my project is a "query builder"
however
> the user will interact with dropdowns and checkboxes so there is no chance
> that tablenames or fieldnames will be mispelled. Mostly I'd just like to
> run the SQL query through the DB and parse it for syntax errors (incorrect
> number of parenthesis, etc.). To do this in SQL Server you use the
command
> SET PARSEONLY and I'll be using it like this (although this is VB.Net
code):
>
> Dim con As New SqlConnection("...")
> con.open()
> Call New SqlCommand("Set parseonly on", con).ExecuteNonQuery()
> Try
> dim SQL as string = "create procedure foo as select *, from t"
> Call New SqlCommand(SQL,con).ExecuteNonQuery()
> Catch ex As SqlException
> Trace.Write(ex.ToString)
> Finally
> Call New SqlCommand("Set parseonly off", con).ExecuteNonQuery()
> End Try
>
>
>
> Now, the question of the day is this: What's the Oracle equivalent of SET
> PARSEONLY? Is this possible?
>
> Please don't get all "Oracle" on me and tell me to read textbooks and how
> bad I am for using SQL Server, OK! If you can help, fine, if not you
don't
> have to waste your time. I know that I'll be learning more about Oracle
as
> soon as I get to that point. I just need to know if this is
> possible--letting Oracle parse the query for me.
>
> Axe
>
>
Received on Tue May 27 2003 - 09:22:49 CDT
