Re: WHENEVER SQLERROR does'nt always work

In article <d2eb532b.0306260409.f2683c1_at_posting.google.com>, ni4ni_at_hotmail.com says...
> Hi
>
> I have a set of sql scripts that creates several tables and them
> populates them with rows (via insert statements).
> Each script begins with WHENEVER SQLERROR... and WHENEVER OSERROR...
> So it should halt once an error occures. I thought this will cover all
> possible errors.
> The problem is that it doesnt work with all kinds of errors. For
> example, if I wrote "nsert into" instead of "insert into" then
> SQL*PLUS throws this error message: SP2-0734: unknown command
> beginning "NSERT INTO..." but execution doesnt stop.
>
> Does it mean that WHENEVER SQLERROR doesnt catch "SP2" errors ? is
> there a way to catch this kind of errors ? I could'nt find a clue in
> SQL*PLUS documentation.
>
>
> T.I.A
>
> Guy
>

Don't know if there is a way to catch these but the reason that the 'whenever sqlerror' doesn't work is that the errors are that the program sqlplus doesn't understand the command - it doesn't get as far as oracle per se.

You probably shouldn't be too concerned after all once you have written and tested your scripts, the only thing that will fail *will* give rise to a SQLERROR or OSERROR....

HTH

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jeremy