Problem with single quote around ANYINTERACT

Question

CREATE TABLE JUNK
as SELECT s.survey_id,s.shape,s.original_depth
FROM bathyuser.sounding s,m_covr r
WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, 'ANYINTERACT', R.geom, 0.5) = 'TRUE'
AND R.DSNM=CNT.DSNM
and
s.SURVEY_ID in
(SELECT unique s.survey_id FROM header s, m_covr r
WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, 'ANYINTERACT', r.geom, 0.5) = 'TRUE'
AND DSNM=CNT.DSNM)';
This above SQL works fine in SQL prompt. But when I put it together in PL/SQL it gives me this error :
WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, 'ANYINTERACT', R.geom, 0.5) = 'TRUE'
ERROR at line 17:
ORA-06550: line 17, column 39:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "ANYINTERACT" when expecting one of the
following:
* & = - + ; < / > at in is mod remainder not rem
<an exponent (**)> <> or != or ~= >= <= <> and or like LIKE2_
LIKE4_ LIKEC_ between || multiset member SUBMULTISET_
Could someone help me fix this error. I know I have to try it with "EXECUTE IMMEDIATE" command, but I'm having problem with "||" (concatinate).
Thanks so much
Cuong

Answer 1

This is how you go about debugging execute immediate statements. I am assuming that you fixed the first problem as marias suggested and cam up with something like this. Note, I changed the table in your surso to dual since I do not have your tables, but the effect is the same. I changed the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE to DBMS_OUTPUT.Put_Line so you can actually see what you are trying to execute. I also added some carriage returns to make the formatting a littel easier to see. This is what I got:
SQL> DECLARE
  2     statement varchar2(1000);
  3  CURSOR C_DSNM5 IS
  4     SELECT dummy dsnm FROM dual;
  5  BEGIN
  6     FOR CNT IN C_DSNM5 LOOP
  7        STATEMENT := 'CREATE TABLE JUNK'||
  8                     ' AS SELECT s.survey_id,s.shape,s.original_depth'||CHR(10)||
  9                     ' FROM bathyuser.sounding s,m_covr r '||CHR(10)||
10                     'WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, '||
11                     '''ANYINTERACT'''||
12                     ', R.geom, 0.5) = '||'''TRUE'''||CHR(10)||
13                     ' AND R.DSNM = CNT.DSNM '||CHR(10)||
14                     ' AND s.SURVEY_ID IN '||
15                     ' (SELECT UNIQUE s.survey_id FROM HEADER s, m_covr r'||CHR(10)||
16                     ' WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, '||
17                     '''ANYINTERACT'''||
18                     ', r.geom, 0.5) = '||
19                     '''TRUE'''||CHR(10)||
20                     ' AND R.DSNM = '||CNT.DSNM||' )';
21        DBMS_OUTPUT.Put_Line (statement);
22     END LOOP;
23  END;
24  /
CREATE TABLE JUNK AS SELECT s.survey_id,s.shape,s.original_depth
FROM bathyuser.sounding s,m_covr r
WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, 'ANYINTERACT', R.geom, 0.5) = 'TRUE'
AND R.DSNM = CNT.DSNM
AND s.SURVEY_ID IN  (SELECT UNIQUE s.survey_id FROM HEADER s, m_covr r
WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, 'ANYINTERACT', r.geom, 0.5) = 'TRUE'
AND R.DSNM = X )
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.You have at least two issues with this CREATE TABLE statement. The last line needs to have the X (which came from dual) quoted since it is a string. You also still have a reference to CNT.DSNM, unless you fixed both occurences.
Another major problem is that if your cursor will return more than one row, and by the structure of this I assume that it might, the on the second record you are going to get:
ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object.
Although I see no reason why you need dynamic sql here, you really need to use bind variables whereever possible (everywhere you use a variable except ofr names of database objects. So, your procedure should look more like:
DECLARE
   statement varchar2(1000);
   CURSOR C_DSNM5 IS
      SELECT distinct DSNM from M_COVR where dsnm like 'US5%';
BEGIN
   FOR CNT IN C_DSNM5 LOOP
      STATEMENT := 'CREATE TABLE JUNK'||
                   ' AS SELECT s.survey_id,s.shape,s.original_depth'||
                   ' FROM bathyuser.sounding s,m_covr r '||
                   'WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, '||
                   '''ANYINTERACT'''||
                   ', R.geom, 0.5) = '||'''TRUE'''||
                   ' AND R.DSNM = :b1 '||
                   ' AND s.SURVEY_ID IN '||
                   ' (SELECT UNIQUE s.survey_id FROM HEADER s, m_covr r'||
                   ' WHERE SDO_GEOM.RELATE (s.shape, '||
                   '''ANYINTERACT'''||
                   ', r.geom, 0.5) = '||
                   '''TRUE'''||
                   ' AND R.DSNM = :b2 )';
      EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statement USING cnt.dsnm, cnt.dsnm
   END LOOP;
END;But it is still very wrong.
Perhaps if you can explain in words what you are trying to accomplish someone can provide a much better response.
John