Bind Variable popup when no bind variable declared

Question

I am writing a fairly complex SQL (FYI, I want to keep this all in one step and not split out with multiple sub-selects) and I am getting the bind variable popup and an error message ("The requested URL /apex/wwv_flow.show was not found on this server ") and I am not sure why and could definitely use some help. From what I see there is no issue with the SQL syntax written and when I try to break it down, everything goes well until the point where I write a case statement with an OR and checking for 'BLOCK'.
The issue comes when using the bolded line.
I am using "10g Release 2 (10.2)" and querying from the SQL commands area inside it.
The goal is to identify the area of the court broken down by the x and y dimension, home and away team has different logic to be used and if it is a block there is different logic.
Your help would be greatly appreciated, and I am leaning towards it is a bug in the SQL Commands section of the tool:
The full query is below:
case when E.YEAR IS NOT NULL then
*(case when x_dimension < 12.5 then 'A' when x_dimension <= 25 then 'B' when x_dimension < 37.5 then 'C' else 'D' end ||*
case when ((a.action_team=c.awayname3 and A.ACTION_TYPE = 'BLOCK') or (a.action_team=c.homename3 and A.ACTION_TYPE <> 'BLOCK')) then (case when y_dimension < 9.5 then '4' when y_dimension <= 19 then '3' when y_dimension < 28.5 then '2' when y_dimension <= 38 then '1' else '0' end) else (case when y_dimension > 84.5 then '4' when y_dimension >= 75 then '3' when y_dimension < 65.5 then '2' when y_dimension <= 56 then '1' else '0' end) end) else 'NA' end as COURT_LOC
It would not allow to enter the full SQL but please know that there is no issue with any declaration of the columns.
Edited by: user10615520 on Feb 29, 2012 10:29 AM
It seems that it is an issue with the in house SQL client of XE as I downloaded SQL Developer and ran same query there and the result was no issues. Is anyone aware of a bug for something like this?
Edited by: user10615520 on Feb 29, 2012 10:43 AM

Answer 1

So I am running Oracle Database Express version 10g. When you login through the default web interface, there is a SQL command line option. When I utilize the SQL below, can't insert whole SQL statement for some reason it won't let me, in that SQL command line I get a pop up window asking about values for bind variables... But as you can see from the code below there is no declaration of a bind variable. I also get the error message from the original post.
When I use the same query in Oracle SQL Developer, not express (mistake in previous note), the query runs without any issues.
My question is if anyone is aware of the oracle database express sql command line module having a bug where this is occurring. When I remove the line below from the query it runs fine in the Oracle Database Express command line module.
Thank you for your help, I hope this is clear.
case when E.YEAR IS NOT NULL then
(case when x_dimension < 12.5 then 'A' when x_dimension <= 25 then 'B' when x_dimension < 37.5 then 'C' else 'D' end ||
case when ((a.action_team=c.awayname3 and A.ACTION_TYPE = 'BLOCK') or (a.action_team=c.homename3 and A.ACTION_TYPE <> 'BLOCK'))
then
(case when y_dimension < 9.5 then '4' when y_dimension <= 19 then '3' when y_dimension < 28.5 then '2' when y_dimension <= 38 then '1' else '0' end)
else
(case when y_dimension > 84.5 then '4' when y_dimension >= 75 then '3' when y_dimension < 65.5 then '2' when y_dimension <= 56 then '1' else '0' end)
end) else 'NA' end as COURT_LOC