PLSQL dynamic query - oracle

Question

I have a table A which has column A which holds table names as values.
All these tables have a common column C. I need maximum value of this column for each table.
I tried this using dynamic SQL but I'm getting errors. Please suggest.
DECLARE
query1 VARCHAR2(100);
c_table VARCHAR2(40);
c_obj VARCHAR2(20);
Cursor cursor_a IS
SELECT a FROM A;
BEGIN
Open cursor_a;
LOOP
Fetch cursor_a INTO c_table2;
EXIT WHEN cursor_a%notfound;
query1 := 'SELECT max(object_ref) AS "c_obj" FROM c_table' ;
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE query1;
dbms_output.put_line('Maximum value: '|| c_table || c_obj);
END LOOP;
Close cursor_a;
END;

Answer 1

Dynamic SQL can't see your PL/SQL variable: you need to pass it a string which can be executed in the scope of the SQL engine. So you need to concatenate the table name with the statement's boilerplate text:
query1 := 'SELECT max(c) FROM ' || variable_name;
You also need to return the result of the query into a variable.
Here is how it works (I've stripped out some of the unnecessary code from your example):
DECLARE
c_table VARCHAR2(40);
c_obj VARCHAR2(20);
BEGIN
for lrec in ( select a as tab_name from A )
LOOP
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'SELECT max(object_ref) FROM ' || lrec.tab_name
into c_obj ;
dbms_output.put_line('Maximum value: '|| lrec.tab_name
|| '='|| c_obj);
END LOOP;
END;

Answer 2

There is some miss match in veriables that you had used i.e.
declared as "c_table" but accessing as "c_table2"
Each table common column name is "C" but accessing as "object_ref"
In dynamic query use INTO keyword to store the value to your varibale
Suggestions
Use concat() function to prepare the query dynamically i.e. something like:
SET #SQL := CONCAT('SELECT max(c) INTO ', c_obj, ' FROM ',c_table);
Steps of implementing dynamic query is:
SET #SQL = <your dynamic query>
PREPARE stmt FROM #SQL;
EXECUTE stmt;
Sample code:
DECLARE
query1 VARCHAR2(100);
c_table VARCHAR2(40);
c_obj VARCHAR2(20);
CURSOR cursor_a IS
SELECT a FROM A;
BEGIN
OPEN cursor_a;
LOOP
FETCH cursor_a INTO c_table;
EXIT WHEN cursor_a%notfound;
SET #SQL := CONCAT('SELECT max(object_ref) AS c_obj INTO ', c_obj, ' FROM ',c_table);
PREPARE stmt FROM #SQL;
EXECUTE stmt;
dbms_output.put_line('Maximum value: '|| c_table || c_obj);
END LOOP;
CLOSE cursor_a;
END;