when try to excure procedure it said compliation error in oracle? - oracle

Question

I try to write select procedure in oracle.but it compile success, when I try to execute it given error.
set serveroutput on;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE retrieve_decrypt(
custid in NUMBER,
column_name in VARCHAR2,
test_value OUT VARCHAR2
)
AS
BEGIN
-- enc_dec.decrypt(column_name,password) into test_value from employees where custid=5;
COMMIT;
END;
/
set serveroutput on;
EXEC retrieve_decrypt(5,'creditcardno');
the error says ,

Answer 1

This is your procedure:
SQL> create or replace procedure retrieve_decrypt
2 (custid in number,
3 column_name in varchar2,
4 test_value out varchar2
5 )
6 as
7 begin
8 -- your code goes here
9 null;
10 end;
11 /
Procedure created.
SQL>
This is how you call it (and get the error):
SQL> exec retrieve_decrypt(5, 'creditcardno');
BEGIN retrieve_decrypt(5, 'creditcardno'); END;
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to 'RETRIEVE_DECRYPT'
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
SQL>
The cause of the error is:
the procedure contains 3 parameters:
2 of them are IN - you provided their values
1 of them is OUT - you didn't provide it and got the error
Here's what you should have done: as the 3rd parameter is OUT, you'll have to DECLARE it:
SQL> declare
2 l_out varchar2(20);
3 begin
4 retrieve_decrypt(5, 'creditcardno', l_out);
5 end;
6 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
EXEC you used is a SQL*Plus command so it might not work everywhere; DECLARE-BEGIN-END block will so I'd suggest you use it.
Alternatively, in SQL*Plus, it could be rewritten as
SQL> var l_out varchar2
SQL>
SQL> exec retrieve_decrypt(5, 'creditcardno', :l_out);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
but - once again - you'd better use DECLARE-BEGIN-END PL/SQL block.

Answer 2

The initial error is:
wrong number or types of arguments in call to 'RETRIEVE_DECRYPT'
The procedure requires 3 parameters. You are only passing 2 (or apparently only 1, in the attempt that generated the error message shown).
Why do you also see the message "Usually a PL/SQL compilation error"? The EXEC command in SQLPlus creates a PL/SQL block containing the text you provide, and sends that to Oracle for execution. Oracle attempts to compile that PL/SQL block (just like it compiles the procedure when you create it). In this case, the compilation fails because of the mismatch in the number of arguments.