Re: dynamic table name

Chuck:

Look into the PL/SQL package DBMS_SQL. It lets you submit dynamic SQL - either DML or a select statement as a cursor.

HTH,
Tom Best

R. Chuck Matthews <matthews_chuck_at_bah.com> wrote in message news:398B523E.AD5080E1_at_bah.com...
> I would like to be able to write a generic select statement where I can
> pass in data elements and a tablename. Example:
>
> IS
>
> tableName varchar2(10);
> dataElements varchar2(60);
>
> tableName := getTableName(arg);
> dataElements := getDataElements(args);
>
> // dataElements could have "element1,element2,element3,element4".
> file://tableName could have "msgType"
>
>
> select dataElements from tableName where ...
>
> Can this be done??? If so, how???
>
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Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT