Re: Executing a Oracle Stored Procedure

From: Manh-Hoa Le <at770_at_FreeNet.Carleton.CA>
Date: 1996/10/31
Message-ID: <55aba6$i95_at_freenet-news.carleton.ca>#1/1


John Bush (jbush_at_netbox.com) writes:
> I have created an oracle stored procedure,
>
> I would like to execute the procedure from sqlplus
>
> Unfortunately the docs dont give a descent example of how to to this
> with an out parm. Here is what I have, but it doesnt seem to work:
>
> ***************************
> BEGIN
>
> DECLARE TEST NUMBER;
>
> EXECUTE johns_proc(TEST);
>
> END
> /
>
> ***************************
> It would also be nice to display the value of TEST to the screen!
>
> thanks in advance
>
> -John

  You have executed a PL/SQL block ! It should be like this:

  DECLARE
    TEST NUMBER;
  BEGIN
    johns_proc(TEST); -- no EXECUTE
  END;   Hope this help.
  Manh-Hoa Le Received on Thu Oct 31 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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