Re: strange PL/SQL Error

Ok, great it works!

Thank you so much!

Sebastian

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:55:11 +0100, "Keith Boulton" <kboulton_at_ntlunspam-world.com> wrote:

>The problem is not that inline views are not supported, but rather that
>anything out of the ordinary (eg use of minus) causes them to fail.
>
>"Gene Hubert" <gwhubert_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:7e3fa619.0107300731.2685f561_at_posting.google.com...
>> "Keith Boulton" <kboulton_at_ntlunspam-world.com> wrote in message
 news:<smY87.22017$vN4.160911_at_news11-gui.server.ntli.net>...
>> > The problem is almost certainly because the PL/SQL engine has its own
>> > (backlevel) SQL interpreter that doesn't properly support inline views.
>>
>> PL/SQL may interpret SQL differently than for interactive statements
>> but it does work with some inline views as can be seen in the second
>> stored procedure below. As far as what caused the original problem
>> I'm afraid I don't know. I have seen other sql statements that work
>> interactively but fail in a stored procedure.
>>
>> Gene Hubert
>>
>> ------------
>>
>> SQL> desc g1
>> Name Null? Type
>> ------------------------------- -------- ----
>> ID NUMBER
>> VAL NUMBER
>>
>> SQL> select * from g1;
>>
>> ID VAL
>> ---------- ----------
>> 1
>> 2
>>
>> 1 create or replace procedure junk as
>> 2 cnt pls_integer;
>> 3 begin
>> 4 select count(*) into cnt from g1;
>> 5 dbms_output.put_line(cnt);
>> 6* end;
>>
>> Procedure created.
>>
>> SQL> set serveroutput on
>> SQL> execute junk
>> 2
>>
>> PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>>
>> 1 create or replace procedure junk as
>> 2 cnt pls_integer;
>> 3 begin
>> 4 select count(*) into cnt from (
>> 5 select * from g1);
>> 6 dbms_output.put_line(cnt);
>> 7* end;
>>
>> Procedure created.
>>
>> SQL> execute junk
>> 2
>>
>> PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>
>
Received on Thu Aug 02 2001 - 13:33:36 CDT