Anonymous Block with Variable and SELECT

Hi Guys,
I am struggling to connect the material I am learning. I read about anonymous blocks and variables so I want to write a
nice and neat select with all the fancy stuff (variables, exceptions) to get it right and to it as I read in the book.
DECLARE
MYSTRING VARCHAR(10);
MYSTIRNG := 'X';
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM DUAL WHERE DUMMY = MYSTRING
END;
but....this causes one error after the other. Am I getting the concept wrong here or is it a syntax error?

cant I just get the result without using variable to store the result in the first place???Perhaps you're better off using a REF CURSOR (a.k.a. cursor variable).
That way you'll pass a resultset to the caller and you don't need any variables to select into.
You can read about them here:
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/UsingRefCursorsToReturnRecordsets.php
Re: PL/SQL 101 : Understanding Ref Cursors
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e10766/tdddg_subprograms.htm#TDDDG99939

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cheers

Problem with align and Selection Tool.

This is a weird problem which I cannot explain at all.
I am using AI CS3 with Windows XP.
I am having this completely random problem with the selection tool and align pallette I cannot explain.
I have a group of objects and groups of objects I am trying to use the align pallette on.
Sometimes when I select all of the items I want to align, either by shift-clicking each one, or by drag-selecting them I am getting a random behavior where sometimes the align button will move all of the objects COMPLETELY off of the artboard, all the way to the edge of the working area and beyond into the grey area you cannot see.
Normally, this would be caused by a stray point somewhere way off-screen or some other cleanup oriented thing on my part. However in this case, the behavior is random and does not happen every time I hit the align button.
Sometimes it takes items within my grouped objects (lines of text) and moves THEM completely off the work area, leaving the other items in the groups in place. Sometimes the bounding box when I drag-select the items will stretch extremely far off of the work area.
I have even dragged the extra large bounding box, bringing the edge that was once way off screen onto the work area, in outline view, in hopes of finding the stray point or object that could be causing this. However NOTHING appears that can be causing the align to throw all of my objects off-screen.
The random nature of this behavior and the way it sometimes affects my text objects inside of groups leads me to believe it is a program bug and nothing I am doing.
The behavior takes place regardless if I select by dragging or by shift-clicking, and is happening in more than one file, also randomly.
Also, choosing "align to art board" vs. "align to crop area" does nothing to change this behavior.
It is quite irritating. I've been using illustrator since v.88 so I have enough experience to know this is not normal.
Any help with this one would be greatly appreciated.

When this behaviour occurs, are perhaps guides included in your selection?

Automator : issue with variable and path to folder

I created a simple Automator Workflow with: A variable "Document Folder" and an action "Run shell script" with this command:
"rsync -E -a -v -z --delete $@ /Volumes/MyBook/Backup/"
I tested this command, It works very well in the terminal. But return me an error with Automator.
"$@" is replaced by the Path when running, I guess my issue is that the content of the variable is " ~/Documents " . When it pass to the script it become "/Users/login/~/Documents".
That can't works.
A solution would be to put in the script the full path instead of "$@" but I would liketo understand why this error occur.
Thanks.

Automator actions return their results as a list of items. If you want your shell script to use the result of an action (for example Ask for Finder Items) as arguments, you need to set the Pass input: as arguments option, and place your statement in the for loop:
for f in "$@"
do
/usr/bin/rsync -E -a -v -z --delete "$f" /Volumes/MyBook/Backup/
done

Copy process instance with variables and state

Hello,
I want to make a kind of "snapshot" of my running BPEL instance.
It should be possible to change some variable values of the snapshot
and then continue the snapshot process with the changed parameters.
Thus, I need to copy not only the BPEL description, but also the variable values,
the state of the process and the outcome of the already finished activities.
Any idea how this can be done ?
Thanks in advance.
Bernd

Could you describe the use case? Because there are other options as well, like designing your process in such a way it can start at several distinct entrypoints, depending on the message it receives.
I find the kind of solution you suggest very dangerous, as you try to 'hack' the BPEL engine. This makes your solution very vulnerable, as it probably will be affected by patches and new releases, whereas a more functional approach, using the standard functions, will be less so.
Just my 2 cents, though.

ACL denied using Pkb but works using anonymous block with same user

I have a recent 11g installation with a developer that is getting a access denied message when using a package but is able to run the same code manually in sqlplus and it works.
eg. I have granted access to connect and resolve to the user BLAH.
from sqlplus, BLAH can do
select trim(substr(utl_inaddr.get_host_name,1,30)) from dual;
TRIM(SUBSTR(UTL_INADDR.GET_HOST_NAME,1,30))
serverhostname
and get the hostname successfully, but this same line in a pkb fails when called like so
exec func_name.something()
BEGIN func_name.something(); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-24247: network access denied by access control list (ACL)
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_INADDR", line 4
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_INADDR", line 35
ORA-06512: at line 1
ORA-06512: at "BLAH.FUNC_NAME", line 83
ORA-06512: at line 1
but if you were to do this same bit of code in sqlplus as follows:
set serveroutput on
declare
mhost varchar(30);
begin
select trim(substr(utl_inaddr.get_host_name,1,30)) into mhost
from dual;
dbms_output.put_line(mhost);
end;
it works.
I do not understand this at all. This is the same user account that owns the pkb and is running it in sqlplus. The user has been granted the connect and resolve priv through being granted a role that has this permission.
Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks, the oracle logic behind this doesn't make sense to me - if the user can do this action, then surely the user should be able to run the package...
Anyway, I will try to grant directly to the user that needs the privs, but then how do I grant this privilege to multiple users, it's some awkward bit of pl/sql just to grant it to one user.
Here is what I did:
dbms_network_acl_admin.create_acl(acl => 'filename.xml',
description => 'Network permissions for BLAH_USER to connect/resolve any host',
principal => 'BLAH_USER', is_grant => TRUE, privilege => 'connect');
dbms_network_acl_admin.add_privilege(acl => 'filename.xml', principal => 'BLAH_USER', is_grant => TRUE, privilege => 'resolve');
dbms_network_acl_admin.assign_acl(acl => 'filename.xml', host => '*');
grant execute on dbms_network_acl_admin to BLAH_USER;
but this only works for 1 user and I cannot recreate this as the acl now already exists. Would I have to change filename.xml every time and do all these steps for every user?
This is why I granted to a role and then granted that role to the BLAH_USER originally.
Any ideas on how to make this scalable to many users or to add users to this ACL?

Powershell Issue with Variable and Equal Signs

I should have been using $line.grade, but your syntax worked so thanks!

I've been running a powershell script to create active directory accounts at our school from a csv file. I'm needing to have users placed in a specific OU based on what grade level they are in, which is a field in the csv file and I have passed into the description field in AD. To keep from writing a bunch of if statements, I thought I might could pass the description variable into my organizational unit path, but I'm having syntax issues.Here is the specific line I have issues with.Powershell'ou' = "OU=$line.description, OU=LESStudents,OU=LES,DC=school,DC=k12,DC=state,DC=us"I've tried the single quote, double quotes, escaping the equal sign and some other methods I've seen online, but haven't quite gotten it right. It just isn't recognizing OU=$line.description as a variable.
Disclaimer - I'm not a programmer and most of this was built...
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CASE with DATE_SUB and SELECT

Hello again,
im looking for some help again.
I have a table TAB_EVENT where some dates are stored to some events.
An event can have more than one date of course.
Im trying to code a SELECT statement and it looks like this by now:
,CASE
WHEN (to_date(TEST_DATE)) in (SELECT to_date(ev.EVENT_DATE) FROM TAB_L2EVENT ev, TAB_LINK lnk, TAB_TREE tr WHERE ev.EVENT_ID = 1 AND ev.OBJ_ID = lnk.OBJ_ID AND lnk.LINK_ID = tr.NEXT_ID AND tr.NEXT = BM_NUMBER)
THEN 'YES'
ELSE 'NO'
END as F_EVENTMy problem now is, that TEST_DATE can also be in a plus/minus 30-days interval inside the in-line query.
I searched forum and found something like
DATE_SUB(TEST_DATE, INTERVAL 30 DAY)but im getting errors, if I just replace TEST_DATE with the code above.
Maybe some1 can help?
Thank you and regards
Chris

Hi,
If ev.event_date stores dates, then its datatype should be DATE. You'll avoid lots of problems if you make that change.
If it already is a DATE, don't use TO_DATE.
At any rate, you can get the results you want by changing the IN sub-query to an EXISTS sub-query:
,   CASE
          WHEN EXISTS ( SELECT 1
                            FROM   TAB_L2EVENT ev, TAB_LINK lnk, TAB_TREE tr
               WHERE ev.EVENT_ID = 1 AND ev.OBJ_ID = lnk.OBJ_ID AND lnk.LINK_ID = tr.NEXT_ID AND tr.NEXT = BM_NUMBER
               AND    TO_DATE (ev.event_date, 'DD-Mon-YYYY') - TO_DATE (test_date, 'DD-Mon-YYYY')
                                  BETWEEN -30
                           AND     30
     THEN 'YES'
     ELSE 'NO'
    END as F_EVENTWhenever you do use TO_DATE, always specify the format in the second argument. (I used 'DD-Mon-YYYY' above, but I don't know if that's actually how your strings are formatted.)
I'm not familiar with DATE_SUB. What is it?

Help with IF and SELECT

Greetings,
I have a program where some users can request awards for themselves or other users. Only approved people can request for others.
I have a table called OnBehalf that has the UserID of approved users.
I have a vaiable called same, if it is = 0 it means the person is requesting on behalf of someone else.
The problem is, everytime I make a request on behalf of someone else, even if the name is in the table as an approved requester, I get a message saying that I am not approved (msg=4)
What am I doing wrong?
'If requesting for someone else, check if authorized to request on behalf
if same = 0 Then
     dim aa
     dim bb
     aa="SELECT * FROM OnBehalf WHERE UserID = '"& Requester&"' "
     set bb= conn.Execute(aa)
     'response.write (aa)
     if Not bb.EOF Then
          response.redirect "noAuth.asp?msg=4"
          response.end
     end if
end if
Thanx in advance

I think your NOT in the IF shouldn't be there
bb.EOF will be true if the user is not a valid use
if bb.EOF = false Then
response.write "Welcome valid user : " & bb.Fields(0).Value
else
response.redirect "noAuth.asp?msg=4"
response.end
end if
Despite my c++ upbringing I always prefer = false and =true as its easier to read than IF NOT

Issue with variables and white space in powershell script that calls a command line command

Guys,
I have a question regarding this script. Each time I run it, it creates the share, but with a space after it. Also I need help figuring out how to put in the variable for the folder path.
Below is the code
$Users=Import-Csv C:\users2.csv
foreach($User in $Users){
$User.SNCORP
$User.HPB
$User
cmd /c "net share "$User.SNCORP"=D:\Users\"$User.HPB" /grant:Everyone,FULL"
The csv file looks like this
HPB,SNCORP
ccarter,carterch$
This is my output in powershell
PS C:\> .\shareflip.ps1
carterch$
ccarter
HPB SNCORP
ccarter carterch$
The syntax of this command is:
NET SHARE
sharename
sharename=drive:path [/GRANT:user,[READ | CHANGE | FULL]]
[/USERS:number | /UNLIMITED]
[/REMARK:"text"]
[/CACHE:Manual | Documents| Programs | BranchCache | None]
sharename [/USERS:number | /UNLIMITED]
[/REMARK:"text"]
[/CACHE:Manual | Documents | Programs | BranchCache | None]
{sharename | devicename | drive:path} /DELETE
sharename \\computername /DELETE
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Christopher

There is no need to use cmd /c. You should be able to use:
net share "$($User.SNCORP)=D:\Users\$($User.HPB)" "/grant:Everyone,Full"
Use showargs.exe (from the article) at the beginning of this line to see the command line PowerShell is actually running (very useful for troubleshooting).
-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]

Reading videos with iphoto and select iphoto in the screen saver

Since I've upgraded my mac with mavericks, I can not read videos in iphoto'09.
I have an other proble: I can't select iphoto in the screen saver module.
Can you help me? thanx

About videos in iphoto'09: before upgrading my mac with mavericks, in order to read videos I just click on it. Now, itunes don't find the good software to read the video in iphoto.
About selecting a new screen saver: my mac can not find the iphoto library in the right place when I'm in the screen saver module

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