Oracle Apex procedure using loop - oracle

I am trying to get the user_id and group_id for individual user.
I have used user's email in loop because so many users are there, but I need the loop should take one by one, currently its taking all mail ids like : abinnaya.moorthy#abc.com,abinnaya.moorthy#def.com.
Because of this the select query is not returning any value.
The select query should return the value one by one by taking the email id from loop.
code:
DECLARE
L_USERS varchar2(1000);
l_org_group_id varchar2(1000);
l_user_id varchar2(1000);
l_api_body varchar2(1000);
l_retry_after number;
l_status number;
L_NOT_PROVISIONED_USERS varchar2(1000);
l_success boolean;
l_user varchar2(1000);
BEGIN
FOR I IN
(Select REQUESTORS_NAME into L_USER
from Request
where Request_Status = 'Approved'
and Provisioning_Status is NULL )
LOOP
L_USER:= L_USER ||','||I.REQUESTORS_NAME;
select GROUP_ID INTO l_org_group_id
from WORKSPACE_GROUP
where LOWER(email)=(L_USER);
select USER_ID into l_user_id
from slackdatawarehouse.users
where lower(email) = lower(L_USER);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(l_user_id);
if l_user_id is null then
l_not_provisioned_users := l_not_provisioned_users||','|| L_USER;
else
l_api_body := l_api_body || '{"value" :"'||l_user_id ||'"},';
l_users := l_users||','||l_user_id;
end if;
end loop;
end;
Help me to get the user email one by one and pass it in select query to get the groupid and user id.

Oh, boy. I presume that senior members / moderators won't be too happy with this "answer", but it is impossible to put everything into a 600-characters long comment. True, I could shorten the critic to "this is sh*t", but that won't help anyone. Though, "rules" would be obeyed. So, if it turns out that this message is deleted, sorry, everyone.
Here you go.
It is difficult to guess what you want to get as the result. You talk about Apex, but - what does this code have to do with it? DBMS_OUTPUT certainly won't work there.
Then, in DECLARE section, you use 3 variables that are never used - get rid of them.
Cursor FOR loop is the way to do that; however, remove INTO clause from SELECT, it doesn't belong here.
L_USER is concatenation of all REQUESTOR_NAMEs returned by cursor. It means that you shouldn't use it in SELECT GROUP_ID nor SELECT USER_ID statements as it certainly won't return anything (maybe something for the first loop iteration, but nothing for the rest of them). It looks as if you'd rather use I.REQUESTORS_NAME. Also, once you apply LOWER function to it, and then you don't - consider making it uniform.
Why do you select GROUP_ID at all? You never use it later.
L_NOT_PROVISIONED_USERS is a huge concatenation of duplicates, as you concatenate previous values with (yet another concatenation of) L_USER. Try to DBMS_OUTPUT it, you'll see.
You don't care about possible NO-DATA-FOUNDs which might well be raised by those SELECTs, as - as I've already said - they won't return anything in subsequent loop iterations.
Finally, even if that PL/SQL finishes successfully, it won't do anything. Nobody, including you, wont' benefit from it.
So, this is quite a mess ... try to follow what I've written, make a clear picture of what you want to get as a result, go step-by-step, test frequently and - hopefully - you'll get something useful.

Do it as below:
DECLARE
L_USERS VARCHAR2 (1000);
L_ORG_GROUP_ID VARCHAR2 (1000);
L_USER_ID VARCHAR2 (1000);
L_API_BODY VARCHAR2 (1000);
L_RETRY_AFTER NUMBER;
L_STATUS NUMBER;
L_NOT_PROVISIONED_USERS VARCHAR2 (1000);
L_SUCCESS BOOLEAN;
L_USER VARCHAR2 (1000);
CURSOR EMAIL_IDS
IS
SELECT REQUESTORS_NAME L_USER
FROM REQUEST
WHERE REQUEST_STATUS = 'Approved'
AND PROVISIONING_STATUS IS NULL;
BEGIN
FOR I IN EMAIL_IDS
LOOP
SELECT GROUP_ID
INTO L_ORG_GROUP_ID
FROM WORKSPACE_GROUP
WHERE LOWER (EMAIL) = LOWER (I.L_USER);
SELECT USER_ID
INTO L_USER_ID
FROM SLACKDATAWAREHOUSE.USERS
WHERE LOWER (EMAIL) = LOWER (I.L_USER);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (L_USER_ID);
IF L_USER_ID IS NULL THEN
L_NOT_PROVISIONED_USERS :=
L_NOT_PROVISIONED_USERS || ',' || I.L_USER;
ELSE
L_API_BODY :=
L_API_BODY || '{"value" :"' || L_USER_ID || '"},';
L_USERS := L_USERS || ',' || L_USER_ID;
END IF;
END LOOP;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (SQLERRM);
END;

Related

Validation of result before executing the query

When running a stored procedure to fetch some rows, First I want to validate if the query will return a row before sending the result, and second if it is possible to validate without running the same query twice.
I am using a cursor to store the yielded result, So I tried the cursor attribute %ROWCOUNT & %NOTFOUND. But the doesnt quite work. Plus I want to do this without running a loop on the cursor.
procedure MODULE_LIST_GK(p_module_Id IN MODULE_LIST.MODULE_ID% TYPE,
p_Error_Code out nvarchar2,
p_Error_Msg out nvarchar2,
p_Cursor out sys_refcursor) IS
BEGIN
OPEN p_Cursor FOR
SELECT A.MODULE_ID,
A.MODULE_NM,
A.AUTH_STATUS_ID
FROM MODULE_LIST A
WHERE A.MODULE_ID=p_module_Id;
SELECT COUNT(MODULE_ID)
INTO v_row_num
FROM MODULE_LIST A
WHERE A.MODULE_ID=p_module_Id;
IF v_row_num=0 THEN
p_Error_Code := SQLCODE;
p_Error_Msg := 'Does not Exists';
Return;
end IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
p_error_code:= SQLCODE;
p_error_msg := SQLERRM;
END MODULE_LIST_GK;
Your implementation have several points that could be improved.
First if you expect that for lot of parameters the returned cursor will be empty,
than first check the empty cursor and only after this check open the cursor. You do it vice versa.
How to check if the cursor is empty? Unfortunatelly you must fetch the first row to be able to verify it.
open l_cur for
select id, status from tab where id = p_id;
fetch l_cur into l_id, l_status;
if l_cur%NOTFOUND then
p_Error_Msg := 'Does not Exists';
Return;
end if;
This check is far more effective that the often used count(*) as it is considering only the first (few) rows and not counting all rows in the cursor.
If the check fails you are ready, othervise simple open the cursor and return it.
open l_cur for
select id, status from tab where id = p_id;
p_Cursor := l_cur;
Two additional thinks come to mind.
You should rething the generall approach if the database is very dynamic. How would you handle the case when other session deletes some row between the check and the second open of the cursor?
Finally consider returning an exception instead of the return code.
In order to know whether a cursor contains rows, you must open it and fetch the first row. Once you've done this, it makes no sense anymore to return that cursor, for the recipient will not be able to fetch that first row, because the cursor already points beyond it.
So, you must select twice. What you'd do is to use ROWNUM or an EXISTS clause here to show the DBMS that you are not interested in any more rows. This can speed up the query extremely.
PROCEDURE module_list_gk(p_module_id IN MODULE_LIST.MODULE_ID%TYPE,
p_error_code OUT NVARCHAR2,
p_error_msg OUT NVARCHAR2,
p_cursor OUT SYS_REFCURSOR) IS
v_count INTEGER;
BEGIN
SELECT COUNT(*)
INTO v_count
FROM module_list
WHERE module_id = p_module_Id
AND ROWNUM = 1;
IF v_count = 0 THEN
p_error_code := 0; -- Or -1403 for NO DATA FOUND if you like
p_error_msg := 'Does not Exists';
RETURN;
END IF;
OPEN p_Cursor FOR
SELECT module_id, module_nm, auth_status_id
FROM module_list
WHERE module_id = p_module_id;
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
p_error_code:= SQLCODE;
p_error_msg := SQLERRM;
END module_list_gk;
SQLCODE for the first query will be 0 by the way (SELECT COUNT(*) returns one row with the number of records found - no error hence). This is why you should decide to either return zero explicitly or some error code, such as -1403.
Here is the same with EXISTS:
BEGIN
SELECT CASE WHEN EXISTS
(
SELECT NULL
FROM module_list
WHERE module_id = p_module_Id
) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
INTO v_count
FROM DUAL;
IF v_count = 0 THEN

How to display the results of a procedure outside of it in Oracle

I am working on an application and made the decision that all the queries would be procedures. I hope to have gains in performance and ease of maintenance by doing it this way. Our DBA's have also expressed interest in having it done this way.
I have an HR table where operations are performed on it each night, and any changes are recorded in a secondary table. We are not doing auditing, these change records are kept until the next run and show users the changes that have happened.
To keep my question shorter I have reduced the number of columns in HR.
The HR table ID, GROUP_NAME, and GROUP_LEVEL. The Drill table has ID and TYPEVALUE.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE DOCSADM.DRILL_RECORD_POSITION (
RECORD_TYPE IN VARCHAR2,
OUT_ID OUT VARCHAR2,
OUT_GROUP_NAME OUT VARCHAR2,
OUT_GROUP_LEVEL OUT VARCHAR2
) AS
BEGIN
SELECT HR.ID, HR.GROUP_NAME, HR.GROUP_LEVEL
INTO OUT_ID, OUT_GROUP_NAME, OUT_GROUP_LEVEL
FROM HR_POSITION HR JOIN DRILL_POSITION DP ON (HR.ID = DP.ID) WHERE DP.TYPEVALUE = RECORD_TYPE;
END DRILL_RECORD_POSITION;
The procedure compiles without issue. Before doing all the work in the application to link to the procedure and extract the values which in this case will eventually be displayed in a view or webpage, I wanted to have a quick little script that would call the procedure and then display the results so I can verify in Oracle.
Loops
BEGIN
for t in (DRILL_RECORD_POSITION('D', V1,V5,V6))
loop
--dbms_output.put_line(t.V1 || t.V5 || t.V6);
dbms_output.put_line(t.OUT_ID);
end loop;
END;
/
CURSORS
DECLARE
V1 HR_POSITION.ID%TYPE;
V5 HR_POSITION.GROUP_NAME%TYPE;
V6 HR_POSITION.GROUP_LEVEL%TYPE;
CURSOR T_CUR IS DRILL_RECORD_POSITION('D', V1,V5,V6);
BEGIN
OPEN T_CUR;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUTLINE('START');
LOOP
FETCH T_CUR INTO V1,V5,V6;
EXIT WHEN T_CUR%NOTFOUND;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUTLINE(V1||V5||V6);
END LOOP;
CLOSE T_CUR;
END;
FOR LOOPS
DECLARE
V1 HR_POSITION.POSITION_ID%TYPE;
V5 HR_POSITION.GROUP_NAME%TYPE;
V6 HR_POSITION.GROUP_LEVEL%TYPE;
BEGIN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUTLINE('START');
FOR INDEX IN (DRILL_RECORD_POSITION('D', V1,V5,V6))
LOOP
--DBMS_OUTPUT.PUTLINE(INDEX.ID);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUTLINE(INDEX.V1||INDEX.V5||INDEX.V6);
END LOOP;
END;
Note: I edited the column names out and shorted some when transferring here so I might have made a few mistakes.
All the articles I have seen online show me how to display from within the original procedure or by using views, cursors, records. Unless I am wrong, Eclipse wont have any problems using the information in the current form which is why I am passing it that way. So I am not interested in changing the procedure and would like to work with it as is, since thats how the application will be doing it.
As this is the first of the stored procedures I am doing for the application, instead of using adhoc queries from the application, I dont have any existing examples to work from, which is why I believe the results will work fine, because it should be the same format the adhoc ones use.
Update:
In one of the comments, I was pointed to what should have been a solution. This was confirmed by another solution that was under it.
I keep getting the error
ORA-01422: exact fetch returns more than requested number of rows
So Im returning multiple rows, but that is my expectation and what is happening. I just cant seem to figure out how to display the results.
To test the procedure you showed, you would do something like:
declare
l_id hr_position.id%type;
l_group_name hr_position.group_name%type;
l_group_level hr_position.group_level%type;
begin
drill_record_position('D', l_id, l_group_name, l_group_level);
dbms_output.put_line(l_id ||':'|| l_group_name ||':'|| l_group_level);
end;
/
But that - or more specifically, your procedure - only works if there is exactly one row in the query's result set for the passed-in value type. It seems you're expecting multiple rows back (which would get too-many-rows), but there could also be non (which would get no-data-found).
So really it seems like your question should be about how to write your procedure so it works with one of the retrieval/test methods you tried.
If your procedure needs to return multiple rows then it can use a ref cursor, e.g.:
create or replace procedure drill_record_position (
p_record_type in varchar2,
p_ref_cursor out sys_refcursor
)
as
begin
open p_ref_cursor for
select hr.id, hr.group_name, hr.group_level
from hr_position hr
join drill_position dp
on hr.id = dp.id
where dp.typevalue = p_record_type;
end drill_record_position;
/
which you could then test with something like:
declare
l_ref_cursor sys_refcursor;
l_id hr_position.id%type;
l_group_name hr_position.group_name%type;
l_group_level hr_position.group_level%type;
begin
drill_record_position('D', l_ref_cursor);
loop
fetch l_ref_cursor into l_id, l_group_name, l_group_level;
exit when l_ref_cursor%notfound;
dbms_output.put_line(l_id ||':'|| l_group_name ||':'|| l_group_level);
end loop;
close l_ref_cursor;
end;
/
You can also do that as a function, which might be easier to work with from your application:
-- drop procedure drill_record_position;
create or replace function drill_record_position (p_record_type in varchar2)
return sys_refcursor as
l_ref_cursor sys_refcursor;
begin
open l_ref_cursor for
select hr.id, hr.group_name, hr.group_level
from hr_position hr
join drill_position dp
on hr.id = dp.id
where dp.typevalue = p_record_type;
return l_ref_cursor;
end drill_record_position;
/
declare
l_ref_cursor sys_refcursor;
l_id hr_position.id%type;
l_group_name hr_position.group_name%type;
l_group_level hr_position.group_level%type;
begin
l_ref_cursor := drill_record_position('D');
loop
fetch l_ref_cursor into l_id, l_group_name, l_group_level;
exit when l_ref_cursor%notfound;
dbms_output.put_line(l_id ||':'|| l_group_name ||':'|| l_group_level);
end loop;
close l_ref_cursor;
end;
/
You coudl also do this with collections and a pipelined function, which is more work to set up:
create type t_drill_obj as object (
-- use your real data types...
id number,
group_name varchar2(10),
group_level number
)
/
create type t_drill_tab as table of t_drill_obj
/
create or replace function drill_record_position (p_record_type in varchar2)
return t_drill_tab pipelined as
begin
for l_row in (
select t_drill_obj(hr.id, hr.group_name, hr.group_level) as obj
from hr_position hr
join drill_position dp
on hr.id = dp.id
where dp.typevalue = p_record_type
)
loop
pipe row (l_row.obj);
end loop;
return;
end drill_record_position;
/
but you could call it as part of another query, and even join tot he result if you needed to:
select * from table(drill_record_position('D'));

Oracle: How to populate/insert row to a Ref Cursor?

Really need help regarding Ref Cursor. I have a Stored Procedure GET_PERSONROLES that have parameter type ref cursor. I just wanted to pupulate this ref cursor manually like inserting a row to the refcursor.
Can I insert a row into a refcursor though a loop?
Thank you in advance.
The procedure depends on this publicly declared type:
create or replace package types
as
type cursorTypePersonRole is ref cursor;
end;
Here is my pseudo-codeL
create or replace PROCEDURE GET_PERSONROLES
(
P_CURSOR IN OUT types.cursorTypePersonRole
) AS
REFCUR SYS_REFCURSOR;
TYPE REFTABLETYPE IS RECORD (
IS_MANAGER_LEVEL1 VARCHAR2(1),
IS_MANAGER_LEVEL2 VARCHAR2(1)
);
TYPE TABLETYPE IS TABLE OF REFTABLETYPE;
PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE TABLETYPE;
BEGIN
--calls another stored proc to populate REFCUR with data without problem
MY_STOREDPROC('12345', REFCUR);
LOOP
FETCH REFCUR BULK COLLECT INTO PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE;
EXIT WHEN PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE.COUNT = 0;
FOR indx IN 1 .. PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE.COUNT
LOOP
-- I'm able to query perfectly the values of IS_MANAGER_LEVEL1 and IS_MANAGER_LEVEL 2
-- I'm aware that the below codes are wrong
-- However this means I wanted to insert these values to a row of the cursor if possible
-- Do some logic to know what data will be assigned in the row.
if PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE(indx).IS_MANAGER_LEVEL1 = 'Y' then
P_CURSOR := <DO SOME LOGIC AND ASSIGN THE VALUE TO THE ROW>
end if;
if PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE(indx).IS_MANAGER_LEVEL2 = 'Y' then
P_CURSOR := <DO SOME LOGIC AND ASSIGN THE VALUE TO THE ROW>
end if;
END LOOP;
END LOOP;
CLOSE REFCUR;
END GET_PERSONROLES;
A ref cursor is not a variable: it is a pointer to a result set which is consumed by the act of reading it. The result set itself is immutable.
Immutability makes sense, because it reflects Oracle's emphasis on read consistency.
The simplest way to produce the output you appear to want is to create a SQL Type
open P_CURSOR for
select IS_MANAGER_LEVEL1,
IS_MANAGER_LEVEL2
from table ( PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE );
This will work in 12c; in earlier versions to use the table() call like this you may need to declare REFTABLETYPE and TABLETYPE as SQL types( rather than in PL/SQL).
"Ok edited it now"
Alas your requirements are still not clear. You haven't given us the structure of the output ref cursor or shown what other processing you want to undertake.
However, given the title of your question, let's have a guess. So:
create or replace PROCEDURE GET_PERSONROLES ( P_CURSOR IN OUT types.cursorTypePersonRole) AS
REFCUR SYS_REFCURSOR;
TYPE REFTABLETYPE IS RECORD (IS_MANAGER_LEVEL1 VARCHAR2(1),
IS_MANAGER_LEVEL2 VARCHAR2(1));
TYPE TABLETYPE IS TABLE OF REFTABLETYPE;
PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE TABLETYPE;
personrole_rec PersonRole%rowtype;
type personrole_nt is table of PersonRole%rowtype;
personroles_recs personrole_nt := new personrole_nt() ;
BEGIN
MY_STOREDPROC('12345', REFCUR);
FETCH REFCUR BULK COLLECT INTO PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE;
FOR indx IN 1 .. PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE.COUNT LOOP
/* in the absence of requirements I'm just making some stuff up */
if PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE(indx).IS_MANAGER_LEVEL1 = 'Y' then
personrole_rec.whatever1 := 'something';
else
personrole_recc.whatever1 := null;
end if;
if PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE(indx).IS_MANAGER_LEVEL2 = 'Y' then
personrole_rec.whatever2 := 'something else';
else
personrole_recc.whatever2 := null;
end if;
if personrole_rec.whatever1 is not null
or personrole_rec.whatever2 is mot null then
personroles_recs.exend();
personroles_recs(personroles_recs.count()) := personroles_rec;
end if;
END LOOP;
CLOSE REFCUR;
open p_cursor for
select * from table ( personroles_recs );
END GET_PERSONROLES;
This code uses a second collection to store the desired output. Like your code it reads the populated collection and evaluates the attributes of each row. If a value which means the criteria it sets an attribute in a rowtype variable. If one or both attributes are set it populates a new row in a second collection. At the end of the procedure it opens the ref cursor using a table() function call on the second collection.
Note that you do not need the nested loop: you're not using the LIMIT clause so your coder reads the entire cursor into the collection in one swoop.
The implemented rules may not be exactly what you want (because you haven't explained exactly what you want) but this should give you the general idea.
Note that, depending on exactly what processing is masked by <DO SOME LOGIC AND ASSIGN THE VALUE TO THE ROW>, the simpler approach could still be feasible:
open P_CURSOR for
select case when IS_MANAGER_LEVEL1 = 'Y' then 'YES' else 'NO' end,
case when IS_MANAGER_LEVEL2 = 'Y' then 'YES' else 'NO' end
from table ( PERSONROLES_TABLETYPE );

Pagination in Oracle/PLSQL error

Hey I am trying to add paging to my dynamic sql block in PLSQL but for some reason when I run the test script it errors out:
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected - got -
Here is my procedure:
create or replace
procedure spm_search_patientmedrecs (
p_columnsort_in in varchar2,
p_column1_in in varchar2,
p_column2_in in varchar2,
p_column3_in in varchar2,
p_column4_in in varchar2,
p_ascdesc_in in varchar2,
p_return_cur_out out sys_refcursor
is
lv_sql varchar2(32767);
lv_startnum number:= 1;
lv_incrementby number:= 20;
begin
lv_sql := '';
lv_sql := 'select * from (
select /*+ first_rows(20) */
'||p_column1_in||',
'||p_column2_in||',
'||p_column3_in||',
'||p_column4_in||',
row_number() over
(order by '||p_columnsort_in||' '||p_ascdesc_in||') rn
from membermedicalreconcilationhdr h,
membermedicalreconcilationdet d
where h.membermedreconciliationhdrskey =
d.membermedreconciliationhdrskey)
where rn between :lv_startnum and :lv_incrementby
order by rn';
open p_return_cur_out for lv_sql;
end spm_search_patientmedrecs;
Here is my test script:
set serveroutput on
declare
type tempcursor is ref cursor;
v_cur_result tempcursor;
p_columnsort_in varchar2(50);
p_column1_in varchar2(50);
p_column2_in varchar2(50);
p_column3_in varchar2(50);
p_column4_in varchar2(50);
p_ascdesc_in varchar2(50);
begin
spm_search_patientmedrecs
('h.PRIMARYMEMBERPLANID',
'h.PRIMARYMEMBERPLANID',
'h.ASSIGNEDUSERID',
'd.MEMBERMEDRECONCILIATIONDETSKEY',
'd.GENERICNM',
'ASC',
v_cur_result
);
loop
fetch v_cur_result into
p_column1_in,p_column2_in,p_column3_in,p_column4_in;
dbms_output.put_line('column 1: '||p_column1_in||' column 2: '||p_column2_in||
' column 3: '||p_column3_in||' column 4: '||p_column4_in);
exit when v_cur_result%notfound;
end loop;
end;
The error I posted above doesnt make sense to me, but I've been looking for the cause for awhile. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated, thanks in advance.
A couple of issues jump out at me.
The query that you are using to return the cursor returns 5 columns (the 4 you pass in plus the computed rn) while your fetch fetches the data into only 4 variables. You would either need to modify your query to return only 4 columns or modify your test script to fetch the data into 5 variables.
In your procedure, you have bind variables in your SQL statement but you don't pass in any bind variables when you open the cursor. My guess is that you want something like this
Passing the bind variables with the USING clause
open p_return_cur_out
for lv_sql
using lv_startnum, lv_incrementby;
There may well be more errors-- if there are, it would be helpful to post the full stack trace including the line number of the error.
A couple of other things to be aware of.
Unless p_columnsort_in happens to specify a column that is unique, your paging code may well miss rows and/or show rows in multiple pages because the sort order isn't fully specified. If rows 20 and 21 have the same p_columnsort_in value, it would be perfectly legal to sort them one way on the first query and another way on the second query so row 20 might show up on the first and second page and row 21 might not show up anywhere.
If efficiency is a concern, using rownum will probably end up being more efficient than using the analytic function like this because the optimizer can generally do a better job of optimizing a rownum predicate.
create or replace
procedure spm_search_patientmedrecs (
p_columnsort_in in varchar2,
p_column1_in in varchar2,
p_column2_in in varchar2,
p_column3_in in varchar2,
p_column4_in in varchar2,
p_ascdesc_in in varchar2,
p_return_cur_out out sys_refcursor
is
lv_sql varchar2(32767);
lv_startnum number:= 1;
lv_incrementby number:= 20;
begin
lv_sql := 'select * from (
select /*+ first_rows(20) */
'||p_column1_in||',
'||p_column2_in||',
'||p_column3_in||',
'||p_column4_in||',
row_number() over
(order by '||p_columnsort_in||' '||p_ascdesc_in||') rn
from membermedicalreconcilationhdr h,
membermedicalreconcilationdet d
where h.membermedreconciliationhdrskey =
d.membermedreconciliationhdrskey)
where rn between :1 and :2
order by rn';
open p_return_cur_out for lv_sql using lv_startnum, lv_incrementby;
end spm_search_patientmedrecs;

How can this piece of PLSQL be made to compile?

I need to return the names of employees in string format for all those employees whose manager ID depends on the passed parameter. When I compile the function I get an error. Here is the function code:
create or replace function Employee(v_manid IN employees.manager_id%type)
return varchar2
AS
cursor cur_emp is select last_name from employees where manager_id = v_manid;
v_names varchar2(10);
begin
for emp_rec in cur_emp
loop
v_name = v_name || emp_rec.last_name ||', ';
end loop;
return v_name
end;
/
The error is:
Error(8,8): PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "=" when expecting one
of the following: := . ( # % ; Error(8,44): PLS-00103:
Encountered the symbol ";" when expecting one of the following: )
, * & - + / at mod remainder rem and or ||
Could anyone help me with this?
As stated in the other answers the reason why your function won't compile is threefold.
You've declared the variable v_names and are referencing it as v_name.
The assignment operator in PL/SQL is :=, you're using the equality operator =.
You're missing a semi-colon in your return statement; it should be return v_name;
It won't stop the function from compiling but the variable v_names is declared as a varchar2(10). It's highly unlikely that when a manager with multiple subordinates all their last names will fit into this. You should probably declare this variable with the maximum size; just in case.
I would like to add that you're doing this a highly inefficient way. If you were to do the string aggregation in SQL as opposed to a PL/SQL loop it would be better. From 11g release 2 you have the listagg() function; if you're using a version prior to that there are plenty of other string aggregation techniques to achieve the same result.
create or replace function employee ( p_manid in employees.manager_id%type
) return varchar2 is
v_names varchar2(32767); -- Maximum size, just in case
begin
select listagg(lastname, ', ') within group ( order by lastname )
into v_names
from employees
where manager_id = p_manid;
return v_names;
exception when no_data_found then
return null;
end;
/
Please note a few other changes I've made:
Prepend a different letter onto the function parameter than the variable to make it clear which is which.
Add in some exception handling to deal with there being no data for that particular manager.
You would have returned , if you had no data I return NULL. If you want to return a comma instead simply put this inside the exception.
Rather than bother to create a cursor and loop through it etc I let Oracle do the heavy lifting.
It's rather curious that you would want to return a comma delimited list as there is little that you would be able to do with it in Oracle afterwards. It might be more normal to return something like an array or an open cursor containing all the surnames. I assume, in this answer, that you have a good reason for doing what you are.
There are a couple of things to be noted.
Declared as v_names but used as v_name
Assignemnt should be like v_name := v_name || emp_rec.last_name ||
', ';
v_name is declared with size of 10, it would be too small and would
give an error when you execute, so you could declare as
v_name employees.last_name%TYPE;
You could create your function as
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION employee (v_manid IN employees.manager_id%TYPE)
RETURN VARCHAR2
AS
v_name employees.last_name%TYPE;
CURSOR cur_emp
IS
SELECT last_name
FROM employees
WHERE manager_id = v_manid;
BEGIN
FOR emp_rec IN cur_emp
LOOP
v_name := v_name || emp_rec.last_name || ', ';
END LOOP;
RETURN v_name;
END;
/
I guess you should use := instead of =
like
v_name := v_name || emp_rec.last_name ||', ';
one more thing you also need to add semicolon ; at the end of return v_name like
return v_name;

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