Re: Problem with Cursor-Please help!

[Quoted] Unitl version 9, the versions of the sql interpreter in pl/sql and in the database engine are not compatible (it's only taken them ten years).

You probably need to rewrite the query avoiding the nested decode.

"Raj" <rajattili_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:a0vchj$3pb_at_ftp.ee.vill.edu...
> Hi,
>
> I am having a weird problem with an SQL I am trying to use as a cursor.
Here
> is the SQL:
>
> select * from group_at_ruat t1
> where nvl(trunc(update_date),trunc(sysdate))>
> decode((select trunc(upd_date)
> from process_track
> where upper(ltrim(rtrim(table_name)))='GROUP'
> and id=t1.quest_group),null,trunc(sysdate))
>
> The problem is that this runs fine if I run it from the SQL prompt and
> returns me data, but if I put it as a cursor, I get the following error
> messages:
>
> PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "SELECT" when expecting one of
> the following:
> ( - + mod not null others <an identifier>
> <a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> avg
> count current exists max min prior sql stddev sum variance
> execute forall time timestamp interval date
> <a string literal with character set specification>
> <a number> <a single-quoted SQL string>
>
> PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "," when expecting one of the
> following: ;
>
> The SELECT mentioned in the above error message is the select in the 3rd
> line of my SQL statement. The second error message refers to the first ","
> in the last line. I've been trying to fix this for the last couple of
days,
> but couldn't do it. Can anyone point me to where am doing this wrong?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -Raj
>
>
Received on Mon Jan 07 2002 - 07:43:03 CET