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Re: Finding out how many rows were updated?

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:37:35 -0800
Message-ID: <1071848161.353211@yasure>


Paul Tomlinson wrote:

> All,
>
> Why does Oracle reject the following SQL as invalid?
>
> UPDATE COMPANIES
> SET CONTACT = p_contact,
> WHERE COMPANY_ID = p_CompanyID
> RETURNING SQL%ROWCOUNT
> INTO v_noupdated;
>
> I get "PL/SQL: ORA-00911: invalid character"
> I want a way to pass back to my (C++) program the number of rows that this
> statement updated.
>
> Your thoughts?

SET CONTACT = p_contact,

To start with. What is the comma supposed to do?

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Received on Fri Dec 19 2003 - 09:37:35 CST

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