How to do this in Oracle forms

Question

hi Freinds I am Using This Code in Oracle Forms
Declare
     var_m varchar2(20) := 'employee_no';
Begin     
select var_m into :records.column_1 from pay_employee
    where employee_no = 1 and
              company       = 10;
End;Now this is Selecting one row and giving me output as
"employee_no"
But I do not Want This Ouput.
Now this employee_no is the name of column in table.....so I want Its value to be Shown ,Instead of Text ?
I want this query to get Execute
select employee_no from pay_employeebut it is doing this
select "employee_no" from pay_employee

Answer 1

Declare
     var_m varchar2(20) := 'employee_no';
Begin     
select var_m into :records.column_1 from pay_employee
    where employee_no = 1 and
              company       = 10;
End;Of course you are getting the string 'employee_no' from your query as this is what you are selecting:
SQL> create table testselect as select level lvl from dual connect by level < 5;
Table created.
SQL> select * from testselect;
       LVL
         1
         2
         3
         4
SQL> select 'hello' from testselect where lvl = 1;
'HELL
hello
SQL> select lvl from testselect where lvl = 1;
       LVL
         1have a look here:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e17126/fundamentals.htm#CIHGGGGI
what you want to do would be
Declare
     var_m varchar2(20) := 'employee_no';
Begin     
select employee_no into :records.column_1 from pay_employee
    where employee_no = 1 and
              company       = 10;
End;However; the result of your query would be either +1+ or a no_data_found ...
cheers