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Re: Query problem (Need workaround)

From: gazzag <gareth_at_jamms.org>
Date: 3 Nov 2006 06:02:38 -0800
Message-ID: <1162562558.563147.4440@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>


harvinder76_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to implement a logic that have following steps:
>
> begin
> Look for existence of table
> If is exists run query that uses that table
> else skip this block and run query that uses other table
> end
>
> But Oracle compiler don't like it since it check for existence of all
> the tables in a block at compile time and throw error:
> "table does not exists"
>
> Then we tried to use execute immediate but that have a limit of 4096
> characters for query.
>
> Is there workaround for this issue (except pre-creating tables)?
>
> Thanks
> --Harvinder

Check out the USER_TABLES view.

HTH -g Received on Fri Nov 03 2006 - 08:02:38 CST

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