Bulk in Bind exception

Question

Hello there,
I wanted to ask is there a limitation for use of FORALL with PL SQL table.COUNT
i'm getting error Bulk in Bind exception by the following codesnippet:
FORALL i in 1 .. cst.COUNT
INSERT ........
COMMIT;
END LOOP;
Database is 10g

Answer 1

Hi,
I encountered a similar Bulk Bind problem some days back while using forall and Table collections. May be it is similar to yours.
Well I tried to reference different fields inside the Table Collection within a single forall insert. This problem can be avoided if you break your single Table collection into multiple single column collections. Please see below for example:
SQL> CREATE TABLE test_bulk_forall
  2  (
  3  name1 VARCHAR2(100),
  4  name2 VARCHAR2(100))
  5  ;
Table created.Problem code:
SQL> DECLARE
  2      TYPE v_Rec_Bulk_Forall IS RECORD ( vName1 test_bulk_forall.name1%TYPE
  3                                       , vName2 test_bulk_forall.name2%TYPE);
  4      TYPE v_Typ_Bulk_Forall Is TABLE OF v_Rec_Bulk_Forall;
  5      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall v_Typ_Bulk_Forall;
  6  BEGIN
  7      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall(1).vName1 := 'FirstName1';
  8      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall(1).vName2 := 'LastName1';
  9      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall(2).vName1 := 'FirstName2';
10      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall(2).vName2 := 'LastName2';
11      FORALL Loop_Tab_Bulk_Forall IN 1..v_Tab_Bulk_Forall.COUNT
12          INSERT INTO test_bulk_forall
13              (Name1,
14               Name2)
15             VALUES
16                 (v_Tab_Bulk_Forall(Loop_Tab_Bulk_Forall).vName1
17                 ,v_Tab_Bulk_Forall(Loop_Tab_Bulk_Forall).vName2);
18     COMMIT;
19  END;
20  /
                    (v_Tab_Bulk_Forall(Loop_Tab_Bulk_Forall).vName1
ERROR at line 16:
ORA-06550: line 16, column 8:
PLS-00436: implementation restriction: cannot reference fields of BULK In-BIND
table of records
ORA-06550: line 16, column 8:
PLS-00382: expression is of wrong type
ORA-06550: line 17, column 5:
PLS-00436: implementation restriction: cannot reference fields of BULK In-BIND
table of records
ORA-06550: line 17, column 5:
PLS-00382: expression is of wrong type
ORA-06550: line 16, column 8:
PL/SQL: ORA-22806: not an object or REF
ORA-06550: line 12, column 9:
PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignoredCorrected Code:
SQL> DECLARE
  2      TYPE v_Typ_Bulk_Forall Is TABLE OF VARCHAR2(20) INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
  3      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name1 v_Typ_Bulk_Forall;
  4      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name2 v_Typ_Bulk_Forall;
  5  BEGIN
  6      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name1(1) := 'FirstName1';
  7      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name2(1) := 'LastName1';
  8      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name1(2) := 'FirstName2';
  9      v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name2(2) := 'LastName2';
10      FORALL Loop_Tab_Bulk_Forall IN 1..v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name1.COUNT
11          INSERT INTO test_bulk_forall
12              (Name1,
13               Name2)
14             VALUES
15                 (v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name1(Loop_Tab_Bulk_Forall)
16                 ,v_Tab_Bulk_Forall_Name2(Loop_Tab_Bulk_Forall));
17     COMMIT;
18  END;
19  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select * from test_bulk_forall;
NAME1         NAME2
FirstName1   LastName1
FirstName2   LastName2Hope this helps.