concatenate multiple clobs withing Oracle Procedure - oracle

I have an Oracle procedure that is going to accept multiple values within a parameter. Part of the procedure will run a select statement putting the results of the parameter in the where clause and placing the concatenated CLOBs into a variable. I am currently using the query below in the procedure but when I run it I get the error below.
If CLOB_ID is not null then
SELECT cast((collect(CLOB_TEXT) )as CLOB )
into v_MessageBody
FROM MESSAGE_CLOB_TABLE
WHERE MESSAGE_ID in CLOB_ID;
End If;
Error: ORA-00932: incosistant datatypes: expected - got CLOB
I also tried writing this using a LISTAGG function but LISTAGG doesnt work with the CLOB values in the MESSAGE_CLOB_TABLE
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am using Oracle 11g.

If you need to concatenate in PL/SQL simplest variant is to loop through all selected records and append all found records to result:
create or replace function get_message(p_msg_id in number) return CLOB
is
v_MessageBody CLOB;
begin
-- create new instance of temporary CLOB
dbms_lob.createtemporary(v_MessageBody, true);
-- Fill instance with lines
for cMessages in (
select clob_text
from message_clob_table
where message_id = p_msg_id
order by message_row
)
loop
-- add line
dbms_lob.append(v_MessageBody, cMessages.clob_text);
end loop;
-- return collected lines as single CLOB
return v_MessageBody;
end;
Example above works if type of CLOB_TEXT field is CLOB and you need to collect only one message. You can test function in this SQLFiddle.
If you need to select many messages together based on list of his ID's, function becomes a little bit more complex, but principle remains the same.

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How to insert records into variables from cte in oracle?

I have a procedure in which I want to fetch all records from cte into Names variable. But this code is not writing into names from CTE. How can I fetch records into names so that I can later loop through names and get content of field_name?
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sp_market
IS
Names VARCHAR2(32767);
BEGIN
WITH CTE(sqql) As
(
SELECT field_name sqql FROM pld_medicare_config
)
SELECT sqql into Names from CTE;
END sp_market;
SELECT sqql into Names from CTE;
You are assigning multiple rows returned from table to a variable, which will fail.
You could simply use a CURSOR FOR LOOP which will create an implicit cursor and you can loop through the names:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sp_market IS
BEGIN
FOR i IN (
SELECT field_name
FROM pld_medicare_config
)
LOOP
-- Your logic goes here
dbms_output.put_line(i.field_name);
END LOOP;
END;
/
I think your best bet is to create a associative array and use BULK COLLECT to populate the table. In its simplest form, the code would look like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sp_market IS
TYPE lt_names IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(32767) INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
l_tNames lt_names;
BEGIN
SELECT field_name
BULK COLLECT INTO l_tNames
FROM pld_medicare_config
IF l_tNames.COUNT() > 0 THEN
FOR i IN l_tNames.FIRST..l_tNames.LAST LOOP
NULL; --REPLACE WITH YOUR LOGIC
END LOOP;
END IF;
END;
/
A few notes:
I'm assuming that you've set MAX_STRING_SIZE to EXTENDED. Otherwise, you'll have an issue with VARCHAR2 that big.
As I said, that is the simplest way to do this. If you're expecting a huge result set, you'll want to look into chunking it up. This Oracle blog post is very helpful in giving you multiple options for how to perform bulk processing. (Blog Post)

Using DECODE in PL/SQL procedure call

I have a stored PL/SQL procedure (say X) that inserts records into a table. I am calling that procedure from another procedure (say Y). I have some parameters in procedure Y like para1,para2,para3 which can have two values either zero or one, for zero and one values I have one id stored in a TBL_SETUP, and when I call procedure X I want to check that if para1 is null then return null, if it is not null then check if it is one then return YES_ID and if it is no then return NO_ID.
I have tried something like this. I wrote a SELECT statement for getting YES_ID,NO_ID before calling the procedure and it is working fine, but when I write procedure call as below, it is giving me error "PLS-00204: Function or pseudo-column may be used inside a SQL statement only". How to use DECODE in a procedure call?
PROC_X(DECODE(para1,NULL,NULL,DECODE(para1,'1',YES_ID,NO_ID)),para2,NULL,NULL,DECODE(para2,'1',YES_ID,NO_ID)),para3,NULL,NULL,DECODE(para3,'1',YES_ID,NO_ID)),)
You could use SELECT INTO:
DECLARE
DECODE_RESULT VARCHAR2(100); -- or any suitable data type
BEGIN
SELECT DECODE(...) INTO DECODE_RESULT FROM dual;
PROC_X(DECODE_RESULT);
END;

ORACLE - Selecting Parameters for calling Procedure from Table

Is it possible to select the parameters for calling a procedure from the select statement?
EXECUTE PROCEDURE_NAME(para1,para2,para3,para4);
commit;
Is it possible to select para1,para2,para3,para4 from a select query?
EXECUTE PROCEDURE_NAME((SELECT PARA1,PARA2,PARA3,PARA4 FROM TABLEA))
COMMIT;
I do not have access to modify the procedure.
As a slight variation on what #vc74 suggested, you could just replace your EXECUTE command (which, assuming this is SQL*Plus or SQL Developer anyway, is just a wrapper for an anonymous block anyway) with an explicit anonymous block:
begin
for r in (SELECT PARA1,PARA2,PARA3,PARA4 FROM TABLEA) loop
PROCEDURE_NAME(r.PARA1,r.PARA2,r.PARA3,r.PARA4);
end loop;
end;
/
(I've left the bits from your original call uppercase and the new bits lower case mostly to distinguish them.)
Using a loop just means you don't need to declare local variables and select into those. It would also allow you to process multiple rows from the table, though I see form a comment you only expect one row. However, the flip side of that is it won't complain if there are no rows, or if there is more than one row, as the variable approach would do.
You could also use a record type to avoid declaring all the parameters separately:
declare
l_row tablea%rowtype;
begin
SELECT * into l_row FROM TABLEA;
PROCEDURE_NAME(l_row.PARA1,l_row.PARA2,l_row.PARA3,l_row.PARA4);
end;
/
This now does expect exactly one row to be found in the table.
You can call the functions in sql. So if you are able to create a function in your schema then you can do the following:
create a function function_name in your schema that calls the procedure procedure_name and returns some dummy result
use this function in sql query: select function_name(para1,para2,para3,para4) from tablea
example of function:
create or replace function function_name(
p1 varchar2,
p2 varchra2,
p3 varchar2,
p4 varchar2
) return number
is
begin
procedure_name(p1,p2,p3,p4); -- here you execute the procedure
return null;
end;

Bulk collect sql

i made a data_object by myself :
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE my_object AS OBJECT(
number_type NUMBER,
varchar_type VARCHAR2(20)
)
and then i create type
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE my_nt IS TABLE OF my_object;
And I want with nested table and this object make a procedure, that will be return number of employyes of some departments. I ve got Two tables: employees and department a this is my code:
DECLARE
enum_dname my_nt := my_nt();
PROCEDURE print_l IS
BEGIN
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('---------------------------------------------------------');
FOR i IN 1..enum_dname.COUNT
LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(enum_dname(i));
END LOOP;
END;
BEGIN
SELECT COUNT(emp_id) as number_of, department_name
BULK COLLECT INTO enum_dname
FROM employees e, department d
WHERE e.department_id = d.department_id
GROUP BY department_name;
print_l;
END;
And it show me errors : PLS - 00306: Wrong numbers of argument in call type: PUT_LINE
and PL\SQL : ORA - 00947:not enough values
THANK YOU!
You have two errors. As #SudiptaMondal pointed out (and as here) you can't pass an object to put_line(), you have to pass a single string value - or something which evaluates to a string, which can be concatenated or implicit converted or whatever. So here you might do:
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(enum_dname(i).varchar_type || ': ' || enum_dname(i).number_type);
or however you want to format that output. Using dbms_output for anything except debugging generally not a good idea as you have no control over whether someone using your code has output enabled. But this may be enough for this exercise.
The second problem, causing the ORA-00947, is because your query is trying to bulk collect two scalar variables into a collection of objects. You need to include the object constructor:
SELECT my_object(COUNT(emp_id), department_name)
BULK COLLECT INTO enum_dname
...

Listagg function with PLSQL collection

I have a PL/SQL collection of following type
type p_typ_str_tab is table of varchar2(4000) index by pls_integer;
I would like to aggregate the values into a single string with a simple inline function like LISTAGG without writing any custom functions or for loops. All examples of LISTAGG don't show how to use PL/SQL collections. I'm using Oracle 11g R2. Is this possible?
To be able to use LISTAGG function with a collection, the collection must be declared as nested table not as an associative array and must be created as sql type (schema object) because it's not possible to use pl/sql type in a select statement. To that end you might do the following:
--- create a nested table type
SQL> create or replace type t_tb_type is table of number;
2 /
Type created
--- and use it as follows
SQL> select listagg(column_value, ',') within group(order by column_value) res
2 from table(t_tb_type(1,2,3)) -- or call the function that returns data of
3 / -- t_tb_type type
RES
-------
1,2,3
Otherwise the loop is your only choice.
LISTAGG is an analytic SQL function, and those don't operate against PL/SQL collections, but cursors/rowsets.
So, in short, no, it's not possible.
That said, iterating over a PL/SQL table to build a concatenated string is trivial:
l_new_string := null;
for i in str_tab.first .. str_tab.last
loop
if str_tab(i) is not null then
l_new_string := str_tab(i) || ', ';
end if;
end loop;
-- trim off the trailing comma and space
l_new_string := substr(l_new_string, 1, length(l_new_string) - 2);

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