Common Exception Handling

I am trying to create a single BPEL process which is called from all my processes to handle a fault condition. To do this I need to pass in the complete error from the console.
So for example I get the following error if I add no exception handling to my web service call (i.e. the process goes RED) :
<bindingFault>
<part name="code" >
<code>GenericError</code>
</part>
<part name="summary" >
<summary>Failed get wsdl service definition. Failed to get a WSDL service that support the portType "{http://ManualErrorHandler.integration}ManualExceptionHandler" in WSDL definition "{http://ManualErrorHandler.integration}
ManualExceptionHandler". Please verify that WSDL portType "{http://ManualErrorHandler.integration}
ManualExceptionHandler" is supported by a service in WSDL file. </summary>
</part>
</bindingFault>
I would like to pass this complete text as a string input into my common process.
Can this be done? I do not seem to be able to copying this data in an Assign...
Pete

Thanks for the reply Allan. I haven't used BusinessWorks.
I did go through this thread before and here's my understanding.
1. ESB provides the ability of error handling (client management API) but not the exception handling i.e. I can't redirect the flow in case there is an exception in my primary flow. Am I right with my understanding?
2. Error handling ability of ESB is limited to retryable exceptions viz-a-viz asynchrounous ESB processes (e.g. database listener not up) where in the process can be retried. Am I right here?
Thanks,
Mahesh

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PL/SQL 101 : Exception Handling

Frequently I see questions and issues around the use of Exception/Error Handling in PL/SQL. More often than not the issue comes from the questioners misunderstanding about how PL/SQL is constructed and executed, so I thought I'd write a small article covering the key concepts to give a clear picture of how it all hangs together. (Note: the examples are just showing examples of the exception handling structure, and should not be taken as truly valid code for ways of handling things)
Exception Handling
Contents
1. Understanding Execution Blocks (part 1)
2. Execution of the Execution Block
3. Exceptions
4. Understanding Execution Blocks (part 2)
5. How to continue exection of statements after an exception
6. User defined exceptions
7. Line number of exception
8. Exceptions within code within the exception block
1. Understanding Execution Blocks (part 1)
The first thing that one needs to understand is almost taking us back to the basics of PL/SQL... how a PL/SQL execution block is constructed.
Essentially an execution block is made of 3 sections...
+---------------------------+
|    Declaration Section    |
+---------------------------+
|    Statements Section    |
+---------------------------+
|     Exception Section     |
+---------------------------+
The Declaration section is the part defined between the PROCEDURE/FUNCTION header or the DECLARE keyword (for anonymous blocks) and the BEGIN keyword. (Optional section)
The Statements section is where your code goes and lies between the BEGIN keyword and the EXCEPTION keyword (or END keyword if there is no EXCEPTION section). (Mandatory section)
The Exception section is where any exception handling goes and lies between the EXCEPTION keyword at the END keyword. (Optional section)
Example of an anonymous block...
DECLARE
.. declarative statements go here ..
BEGIN
.. code statements go here ..
EXCEPTION
.. exception handlers go here ..
END;
Example of a procedure/function block...
[CREATE OR REPLACE] (PROCEDURE|FUNCTION) <proc or fn name> [(<parameters>)] [RETURN <datatype>] (IS|AS)
.. declarative statements go here ..
BEGIN
.. code statements go here ..
EXCEPTION
.. exception handlers go here ..
END;
(Note: The same can also be done for packages, but let's keep it simple)
2. Execution of the Execution Block
This may seem a simple concept, but it's surprising how many people have issues showing they haven't grasped it. When an Execution block is entered, the declaration section is processed, creating a scope of variables, types , cursors, etc. to be visible to the execution block and then execution enters into the Statements section. Each statment in the statements section is executed in turn and when the execution completes the last statment the execution block is exited back to whatever called it.
3. Exceptions
Exceptions generally happen during the execution of statements in the Statements section. When an exception happens the execution of statements jumps immediately into the exception section. In this section we can specify what exceptions we wish to 'capture' or 'trap' and do one of the two following things...
(Note: The exception section still has access to all the declared items in the declaration section)
3.i) Handle the exception
We do this when we recognise what the exception is (most likely it's something we expect to happen) and we have a means of dealing with it so that our application can continue on.
Example...
(without the exception handler the exception is passed back to the calling code, in this case SQL*Plus)
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 declare
2    v_name VARCHAR2(20);
3 begin
4    select ename
5    into   v_name
6    from   emp
7    where empno = &empno;
8    dbms_output.put_line(v_name);
9* end;
SQL> /
Enter value for empno: 123
old   7:   where empno = &empno;
new   7:   where empno = 123;
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01403: no data found
ORA-06512: at line 4
(with an exception handler, we capture the exception, handle it how we want to, and the calling code is happy that there is no error for it to report)
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 declare
2    v_name VARCHAR2(20);
3 begin
4    select ename
5    into   v_name
6    from   emp
7    where empno = &empno;
8    dbms_output.put_line(v_name);
9 exception
10    when no_data_found then
11      dbms_output.put_line('There is no employee with this employee number.');
12* end;
SQL> /
Enter value for empno: 123
old   7:   where empno = &empno;
new   7:   where empno = 123;
There is no employee with this employee number.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
3.ii) Raise the exception
We do this when:-
a) we recognise the exception, handle it but still want to let the calling code know that it happened
b) we recognise the exception, wish to log it happened and then let the calling code deal with it
c) we don't recognise the exception and we want the calling code to deal with it
Example of b)
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 declare
2    v_name VARCHAR2(20);
3    v_empno NUMBER := &empno;
4 begin
5    select ename
6    into   v_name
7    from   emp
8    where empno = v_empno;
9    dbms_output.put_line(v_name);
10 EXCEPTION
11    WHEN no_data_found THEN
12      INSERT INTO sql_errors (txt)
13      VALUES ('Search for '||v_empno||' failed.');
14      COMMIT;
15      RAISE;
16* end;
SQL> /
Enter value for empno: 123
old   3:   v_empno NUMBER := &empno;
new   3:   v_empno NUMBER := 123;
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01403: no data found
ORA-06512: at line 15
SQL> select * from sql_errors;
TXT
Search for 123 failed.
SQL>
Example of c)
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 declare
2    v_name VARCHAR2(20);
3    v_empno NUMBER := &empno;
4 begin
5    select ename
6    into   v_name
7    from   emp
8    where empno = v_empno;
9    dbms_output.put_line(v_name);
10 EXCEPTION
11    WHEN no_data_found THEN
12      INSERT INTO sql_errors (txt)
13      VALUES ('Search for '||v_empno||' failed.');
14      COMMIT;
15      RAISE;
16    WHEN others THEN
17      RAISE;
18* end;
SQL> /
Enter value for empno: 'ABC'
old   3:   v_empno NUMBER := &empno;
new   3:   v_empno NUMBER := 'ABC';
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character to number conversion error
ORA-06512: at line 3
SQL> select * from sql_errors;
TXT
Search for 123 failed.
SQL>
As you can see from the sql_errors log table, no log was written so the WHEN others exception was the exception that raised the error to the calling code (SQL*Plus)
4. Understanding Execution Blocks (part 2)
Ok, so now we understand the very basics of an execution block and what happens when an exception happens. Let's take it a step further...
Execution blocks are not just a single simple block in most cases. Often, during our statements section we have a need to call some reusable code and we do that by calling a procedure or function. Effectively this nests the procedure or function's code as another execution block within the current statement section so, in terms of execution, we end up with something like...
+---------------------------------+
|    Declaration Section          |
+---------------------------------+
|    Statements Section          |
|            .                    |
| +---------------------------+ |
| |    Declaration Section    | |
| +---------------------------+ |
| |    Statements Section    | |
| +---------------------------+ |
| |     Exception Section     | |
| +---------------------------+ |
|            .                    |
+---------------------------------+
|     Exception Section           |
+---------------------------------+
Example... (Note: log_trace just writes some text to a table for tracing)
SQL> create or replace procedure a as
2    v_dummy NUMBER := log_trace('Procedure A''s Declaration Section');
3 begin
4    v_dummy := log_trace('Procedure A''s Statement Section');
5    v_dummy := 1/0; -- cause an exception
6 exception
7    when others then
8      v_dummy := log_trace('Procedure A''s Exception Section');
9      raise;
10 end;
11 /
Procedure created.
SQL> create or replace procedure b as
2    v_dummy NUMBER := log_trace('Procedure B''s Declaration Section');
3 begin
4    v_dummy := log_trace('Procedure B''s Statement Section');
5    a; -- HERE the execution passes to the declare/statement/exception sections of A
6 exception
7    when others then
8      v_dummy := log_trace('Procedure B''s Exception Section');
9      raise;
10 end;
11 /
Procedure created.
SQL> exec b;
BEGIN b; END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01476: divisor is equal to zero
ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.B", line 9
ORA-06512: at line 1
SQL> select * from code_trace;
TXT
Procedure B's Declaration Section
Procedure B's Statement Section
Procedure A's Declaration Section
Procedure A's Statement Section
Procedure A's Exception Section
Procedure B's Exception Section
6 rows selected.
SQL>
Likewise, execution blocks can be nested deeper and deeper.
5. How to continue exection of statements after an exception
One of the common questions asked is how to return execution to the statement after the one that created the exception and continue on.
Well, firstly, you can only do this for statements you expect to raise an exception, such as when you want to check if there is no data found in a query.
If you consider what's been shown above you could put any statement you expect to cause an exception inside it's own procedure or function with it's own exception section to handle the exception without raising it back to the calling code. However, the nature of procedures and functions is really to provide a means of re-using code, so if it's a statement you only use once it seems a little silly to go creating individual procedures for these.
Instead, you nest execution blocks directly, to give the same result as shown in the diagram at the start of part 4 of this article.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace procedure b (p_empno IN VARCHAR2) as
2    v_dummy NUMBER := log_trace('Procedure B''s Declaration Section');
3 begin
4    v_dummy := log_trace('Procedure B''s Statement Section');
5    -- Here we start another execution block nested in the first one...
6    declare
7      v_dummy NUMBER := log_trace('Nested Block Declaration Section');
8    begin
9      v_dummy := log_trace('Nested Block Statement Section');
10      select empno
11        into   v_dummy
12        from   emp
13       where empno = p_empno; -- Note: the parameters and variables from
                                     parent execution block are available to use!
14    exception
15      when no_data_found then
16        -- This is an exception we can handle so we don't raise it
17        v_dummy := log_trace('No employee was found');
18        v_dummy := log_trace('Nested Block Exception Section - Exception Handled');
19      when others then
20        -- Other exceptions we can't handle so we raise them
21        v_dummy := log_trace('Nested Block Exception Section - Exception Raised');
22        raise;
23    end;
24    -- ...Here endeth the nested execution block
25    -- As the nested block handled it's exception we come back to here...
26    v_dummy := log_trace('Procedure B''s Statement Section Continued');
27 exception
28    when others then
29      -- We'll only get to here if an unhandled exception was raised
30      -- either in the nested block or in procedure b's statement section
31      v_dummy := log_trace('Procedure B''s Exception Section');
32      raise;
33* end;
SQL> /
Procedure created.
SQL> exec b(123);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select * from code_trace;
TXT
Procedure B's Declaration Section
Procedure B's Statement Section
Nested Block Declaration Section
Nested Block Statement Section
No employee was found
Nested Block Exception Section - Exception Handled
Procedure B's Statement Section Continued
7 rows selected.
SQL> truncate table code_trace;
Table truncated.
SQL> exec b('ABC');
BEGIN b('ABC'); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01722: invalid number
ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.B", line 32
ORA-06512: at line 1
SQL> select * from code_trace;
TXT
Procedure B's Declaration Section
Procedure B's Statement Section
Nested Block Declaration Section
Nested Block Statement Section
Nested Block Exception Section - Exception Raised
Procedure B's Exception Section
6 rows selected.
SQL>
You can see from this that, very simply, the code that we expected may have an exception was able to either handle the exception and return to the outer execution block to continue execution, or if an unexpected exception occurred then it was able to be raised up to the outer exception section.
6. User defined exceptions
There are three sorts of 'User Defined' exceptions. There are logical situations (e.g. business logic) where, for example, certain criteria are not met to complete a task, and there are existing Oracle errors that you wish to give a name to in order to capture them in the exception section. The third is raising your own exception messages with our own exception numbers. Let's look at the first one...
Let's say I have tables which detail stock availablility and reorder levels...
SQL> select * from reorder_level;
   ITEM_ID STOCK_LEVEL
         1          20
         2          20
         3          10
         4           2
         5           2
SQL> select * from stock;
   ITEM_ID ITEM_DESC STOCK_LEVEL
         1 Pencils             10
         2 Pens                 2
         3 Notepads            25
         4 Stapler              5
         5 Hole Punch           3
SQL>
Now, our Business has told the administrative clerk to check stock levels and re-order anything that is below the re-order level, but not to hold stock of more than 4 times the re-order level for any particular item. As an IT department we've been asked to put together an application that will automatically produce the re-order documents upon the clerks request and, because our company is so tight-ar*ed about money, they don't want to waste any paper with incorrect printouts so we have to ensure the clerk can't order things they shouldn't.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace procedure re_order(p_item_id NUMBER, p_quantity NUMBER) is
2    cursor cur_stock_reorder is
3      select s.stock_level
4            ,r.stock_level as reorder_level
5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
6      from stock s join reorder_level r on (s.item_id = r.item_id)
7      where s.item_id = p_item_id;
8    --
9    v_stock cur_stock_reorder%ROWTYPE;
10 begin
11    OPEN cur_stock_reorder;
12    FETCH cur_stock_reorder INTO v_stock;
13    IF cur_stock_reorder%NOTFOUND THEN
14      RAISE no_data_found;
15    END IF;
16    CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
17    --
18    IF v_stock.stock_level >= v_stock.reorder_level THEN
19      -- Stock is not low enough to warrant an order
20      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Stock has not reached re-order level yet!');
21    ELSE
22      IF v_stock.stock_level + p_quantity > v_stock.reorder_limit THEN
23        -- Required amount is over-ordering
24        DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Quantity specified is too much. Max for this item: '
                                 ||to_char(v_stock.reorder_limit-v_stock.stock_level));
25      ELSE
26        DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Order OK. Printing Order...');
27        -- Here goes our code to print the order
28      END IF;
29    END IF;
30    --
31 exception
32    WHEN no_data_found THEN
33      CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
34      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Invalid Item ID.');
35* end;
SQL> /
Procedure created.
SQL> exec re_order(10,100);
Invalid Item ID.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec re_order(3,40);
Stock has not reached re-order level yet!
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec re_order(1,100);
Quantity specified is too much. Max for this item: 70
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec re_order(2,50);
Order OK. Printing Order...
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
Ok, so that code works, but it's a bit messy with all those nested IF statements. Is there a cleaner way perhaps? Wouldn't it be nice if we could set up our own exceptions...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace procedure re_order(p_item_id NUMBER, p_quantity NUMBER) is
2    cursor cur_stock_reorder is
3      select s.stock_level
4            ,r.stock_level as reorder_level
5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
6      from stock s join reorder_level r on (s.item_id = r.item_id)
7      where s.item_id = p_item_id;
8    --
9    v_stock cur_stock_reorder%ROWTYPE;
10    --
11    -- Let's declare our own exceptions for business logic...
12    exc_not_warranted EXCEPTION;
13    exc_too_much      EXCEPTION;
14 begin
15    OPEN cur_stock_reorder;
16    FETCH cur_stock_reorder INTO v_stock;
17    IF cur_stock_reorder%NOTFOUND THEN
18      RAISE no_data_found;
19    END IF;
20    CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
21    --
22    IF v_stock.stock_level >= v_stock.reorder_level THEN
23      -- Stock is not low enough to warrant an order
24      RAISE exc_not_warranted;
25    END IF;
26    --
27    IF v_stock.stock_level + p_quantity > v_stock.reorder_limit THEN
28      -- Required amount is over-ordering
29      RAISE exc_too_much;
30    END IF;
31    --
32    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Order OK. Printing Order...');
33    -- Here goes our code to print the order
34    --
35 exception
36    WHEN no_data_found THEN
37      CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
38      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Invalid Item ID.');
39    WHEN exc_not_warranted THEN
40      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Stock has not reached re-order level yet!');
41    WHEN exc_too_much THEN
42      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Quantity specified is too much. Max for this item: '
                              ||to_char(v_stock.reorder_limit-v_stock.stock_level));
43* end;
SQL> /
Procedure created.
SQL> exec re_order(10,100);
Invalid Item ID.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec re_order(3,40);
Stock has not reached re-order level yet!
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec re_order(1,100);
Quantity specified is too much. Max for this item: 70
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec re_order(2,50);
Order OK. Printing Order...
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
That's better. And now we don't have to use all those nested IF statements and worry about it accidently getting to code that will print the order out as, once one of our user defined exceptions is raised, execution goes from the Statements section into the Exception section and all handling of errors is done in one place.
Now for the second sort of user defined exception...
A new requirement has come in from the Finance department who want to have details shown on the order that show a re-order 'indicator' based on the formula ((maximum allowed stock - current stock)/re-order quantity), so this needs calculating and passing to the report...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace procedure re_order(p_item_id NUMBER, p_quantity NUMBER) is
2    cursor cur_stock_reorder is
3      select s.stock_level
4            ,r.stock_level as reorder_level
5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
6            ,(((r.stock_level*4)-s.stock_level)/p_quantity) as finance_factor
7      from stock s join reorder_level r on (s.item_id = r.item_id)
8      where s.item_id = p_item_id;
9    --
10    v_stock cur_stock_reorder%ROWTYPE;
11    --
12    -- Let's declare our own exceptions for business logic...
13    exc_not_warranted EXCEPTION;
14    exc_too_much      EXCEPTION;
15 begin
16    OPEN cur_stock_reorder;
17    FETCH cur_stock_reorder INTO v_stock;
18    IF cur_stock_reorder%NOTFOUND THEN
19      RAISE no_data_found;
20    END IF;
21    CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
22    --
23    IF v_stock.stock_level >= v_stock.reorder_level THEN
24      -- Stock is not low enough to warrant an order
25      RAISE exc_not_warranted;
26    END IF;
27    --
28    IF v_stock.stock_level + p_quantity > v_stock.reorder_limit THEN
29      -- Required amount is over-ordering
30      RAISE exc_too_much;
31    END IF;
32    --
33    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Order OK. Printing Order...');
34    -- Here goes our code to print the order, passing the finance_factor
35    --
36 exception
37    WHEN no_data_found THEN
38      CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
39      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Invalid Item ID.');
40    WHEN exc_not_warranted THEN
41      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Stock has not reached re-order level yet!');
42    WHEN exc_too_much THEN
43      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Quantity specified is too much. Max for this item: '
                              ||to_char(v_stock.reorder_limit-v_stock.stock_level));
44* end;
SQL> /
Procedure created.
SQL> exec re_order(2,40);
Order OK. Printing Order...
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec re_order(2,0);
BEGIN re_order(2,0); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01476: divisor is equal to zero
ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.RE_ORDER", line 17
ORA-06512: at line 1
SQL>
Hmm, there's a problem if the person specifies a re-order quantity of zero. It raises an unhandled exception.
Well, we could put a condition/check into our code to make sure the parameter is not zero, but again we would be wrapping our code in an IF statement and not dealing with the exception in the exception handler.
We could do as we did before and just include a simple IF statement to check the value and raise our own user defined exception but, in this instance the error is standard Oracle error (ORA-01476) so we should be able to capture it inside the exception handler anyway... however...
EXCEPTION
WHEN ORA-01476 THEN
... is not valid. What we need is to give this Oracle error a name.
This is done by declaring a user defined exception as we did before and then associating that name with the error number using the PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT statement in the declaration section.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace procedure re_order(p_item_id NUMBER, p_quantity NUMBER) is
2    cursor cur_stock_reorder is
3      select s.stock_level
4            ,r.stock_level as reorder_level
5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
6            ,(((r.stock_level*4)-s.stock_level)/p_quantity) as finance_factor
7      from stock s join reorder_level r on (s.item_id = r.item_id)
8      where s.item_id = p_item_id;
9    --
10    v_stock cur_stock_reorder%ROWTYPE;
11    --
12    -- Let's declare our own exceptions for business logic...
13    exc_not_warranted EXCEPTION;
14    exc_too_much      EXCEPTION;
15    --
16    exc_zero_quantity EXCEPTION;
17    PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(exc_zero_quantity, -1476);
18 begin
19    OPEN cur_stock_reorder;
20    FETCH cur_stock_reorder INTO v_stock;
21    IF cur_stock_reorder%NOTFOUND THEN
22      RAISE no_data_found;
23    END IF;
24    CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
25    --
26    IF v_stock.stock_level >= v_stock.reorder_level THEN
27      -- Stock is not low enough to warrant an order
28      RAISE exc_not_warranted;
29    END IF;
30    --
31    IF v_stock.stock_level + p_quantity > v_stock.reorder_limit THEN
32      -- Required amount is over-ordering
33      RAISE exc_too_much;
34    END IF;
35    --
36    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Order OK. Printing Order...');
37    -- Here goes our code to print the order, passing the finance_factor
38    --
39 exception
40    WHEN exc_zero_quantity THEN
41      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Quantity of 0 (zero) is invalid.');
42    WHEN no_data_found THEN
43      CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
44      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Invalid Item ID.');
45    WHEN exc_not_warranted THEN
46      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Stock has not reached re-order level yet!');
47    WHEN exc_too_much THEN
48      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Quantity specified is too much. Max for this item: '
                              ||to_char(v_stock.reorder_limit-v_stock.stock_level));
49* end;
SQL> /
Procedure created.
SQL> exec re_order(2,0);
Quantity of 0 (zero) is invalid.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
Lastly, let's look at raising our own exceptions with our own exception numbers...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 create or replace procedure re_order(p_item_id NUMBER, p_quantity NUMBER) is
2    cursor cur_stock_reorder is
3      select s.stock_level
4            ,r.stock_level as reorder_level
5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
6            ,(((r.stock_level*4)-s.stock_level)/p_quantity) as finance_factor
7      from stock s join reorder_level r on (s.item_id = r.item_id)
8      where s.item_id = p_item_id;
9    --
10    v_stock cur_stock_reorder%ROWTYPE;
11    --
12    exc_zero_quantity EXCEPTION;
13    PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(exc_zero_quantity, -1476);
14 begin
15    OPEN cur_stock_reorder;
16    FETCH cur_stock_reorder INTO v_stock;
17    IF cur_stock_reorder%NOTFOUND THEN
18      RAISE no_data_found;
19    END IF;
20    CLOSE cur_stock_reorder;
21    --
22    IF v_stock.stock_level >= v_stock.reorder_level THEN
23      -- Stock is not low enough to warrant an order
24      [b]RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20000, 'Stock has not reached re-order level yet!');[/b]
25    END IF;
26    --
27    IF v_stock.stock_level + p_quantity > v_stock.reorder_limit THEN
28      -- Required amount is over-ordering
29

its nice article, have put up this one the blog
site,Nah, I don't have time to blog, but if one of the other Ace's/Experts wants to copy it to a blog with reference back to here (and all due credit given ;)) then that's fine by me.
I'd go for a book like "Selected articles by OTN members" or something. Does anybody have a list of links of all those mentioned articles?Just these ones I've bookmarked...
Introduction to regular expressions ... by CD
When your query takes too long ... by Rob van Wijk
How to pipeline a function with a dynamic number of columns? by ascheffer
PL/SQL 101 : Exception Handling by BluShadow

Exception Handling Standards -The exception Exception should never been thrown. Always Subclass Exception and throw the subclassed Classes.

In the current project my exception handling implementation is as follows :
Exception Handling Layer wise :
DL layer :
catch (Exception ex)
bool rethrow = ExceptionPolicy.HandleException(ex, "Ui Policy");
if (rethrow)
throw;
BL Layer
catch (Exception ex)
bool rethrow = ExceptionPolicy.HandleException(ex, "Ui Policy");
if (rethrow)
throw;
UI Layer
catch (Exception ex)
bool rethrow = ExceptionPolicy.HandleException(ex, "Ui Policy");
if (rethrow)
Response.Redirect("ErrorPage.aspx", false);
We have a tool to check the standards. And tool output is as follows :
The exception Exception should never been thrown. Always Subclass Exception and throw the subclassed Classes.
I need suggestions on how to implement the same according to standards.

Your tool is wrong if it says to never throw Exception. This was a common recommendation back in the .NET v1 days but has long since been thrown out. It is perfectly fine to use Exception when you have a general exception that provides no information
that an application can use to make an informed opinion.
The general rules of exception throwing is to throw the most specific exception that makes sense. If there is no specific exception that applies and it would be useful for the caller to handle the exception differently than other exceptions then creating
a custom exception type is warranted. Otherwise throwing Exception is reasonable. As an example you might have an application that pulls back product data given an ID. There is no built in exception that says the ID is invalid. However an invalid ID
is something that an application may want to handle differently than, say, an exception about the product being discontinued. Therefore it might make sense to create an ItemNotFoundException exception that the application can react to.
Conversely there is no benefit in having different exception types for disk full and disk quota met. The application will respond the same in either case.
Michael Taylor
http://blogs.msmvps.com/p3net

UTL file exception handling oracle 11g

We use oracle 11g
We use UTL file and exception handling in many place. Thanks in advance.
We have many utl program and we are writing same exception handling code ,copy and paste .
It is possible to create new UTL exception procedure and call it.
I am not sure how to write generic UTL exception procedure and reuse the same.
I am learning oracle etl files method.
Please advise.
sample program 1 :
DECLARE
fileHandler UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
BEGIN
fileHandler := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('test_dir', 'test_file.txt', 'W');
UTL_FILE.PUTF(fileHandler, 'Writing TO a file\n');
UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(fileHandler);
EXCEPTION
when utl_file.invalid_path then
raise_application_error(-20001,
'INVALID_PATH: File location or filename was invalid.');
when utl_file.invalid_mode then
raise_application_error(-20002,
'INVALID_MODE: The open_mode parameter in FOPEN was invalid.');
when utl_file.invalid_filehandle then
raise_application_error(-20002,
'INVALID_FILEHANDLE: The file handle was invalid.');
when utl_file.invalid_operation then
raise_application_error(-20003,
'INVALID_OPERATION: The file could not be opened or operated on as requested.');
when utl_file.read_error then
raise_application_error(-20004,
'READ_ERROR: An operating system error occurred during the read operation.');
when utl_file.write_error then
raise_application_error(-20005,
'WRITE_ERROR: An operating system error occurred during the write operation.');
when utl_file.internal_error then
raise_application_error(-20006,
'INTERNAL_ERROR: An unspecified error in PL/SQL.');
when utl_file.invalid_filename then
raise_application_error(-20010, 'The filename parameter is invalid.');
WHEN OTHERS THEN
IF UTL_FILE.IS_OPEN(fileHandler ) THEN
UTL_FILE.FCLOSE (fileHandler );
END IF;
RAISE;
END;
How to write generic procedure of utl exception handling ?
please advise.
create or replace procedure sp_utl_exception
begin
when utl_file.invalid_path then
raise_application_error(-20001,
'INVALID_PATH: File location or filename was invalid.');
when utl_file.invalid_mode then
raise_application_error(-20002,
'INVALID_MODE: The open_mode parameter in FOPEN was invalid.');
when utl_file.invalid_filehandle then
raise_application_error(-20002,
'INVALID_FILEHANDLE: The file handle was invalid.');
when utl_file.invalid_operation then
raise_application_error(-20003,
'INVALID_OPERATION: The file could not be opened or operated on as requested.');
when utl_file.read_error then
raise_application_error(-20004,
'READ_ERROR: An operating system error occurred during the read operation.');
when utl_file.write_error then
raise_application_error(-20005,
'WRITE_ERROR: An operating system error occurred during the write operation.');
when utl_file.internal_error then
raise_application_error(-20006,
'INTERNAL_ERROR: An unspecified error in PL/SQL.');
when utl_file.invalid_filename then
raise_application_error(-20010, 'The filename parameter is invalid.');
WHEN OTHERS THEN
IF UTL_FILE.IS_OPEN(fileHandler ) THEN
UTL_FILE.FCLOSE (fileHandler );
END IF;
RAISE;
end;

Mahesh Kaila wrote:
Hello,
Common procedure to log exception in log file
create or replace procedure sp_utl_exception (log_dir varchar2, log_file varchar2, exception_msg varchar2)
is
hnd_file UTL_FILE.file_type;
begin
hnd_file := UTL_FILE.fopen (log_dir, log_file, 'A');
UTL_FILE.put_line (hnd_file, exception_msg);
UTL_FILE.fclose (hnd_file);
exception
when others
then
raise;
end;
Very poor implementation.
a) Absolutely no need for that exception handler in there. It should be removed.
b) As it's a procedure for logging exceptions relating to UTL_FILE, it would seem error prone to be logging the errors with UTL_FILE. For example, what is it supposed to do if the exception is raised because of lack of disk space in those file locations? How is it going to write out the exception with the disk full? Also, if the exception handler is used by multiple processes, then only 1 process at a time can access the log file to write it's exceptions, so it doesn't scale well. Better logging is done by having an autonomous transaction procedure that writes log/trace messages to dedicated table(s). That also means that the logs etc. can be viewed, as appropriate, from any client using SQL (either manually or through a application written to view logs etc.), rather than requiring physical/remote access to the server o/s to go and view the contents of the file, which in itself could lock the file and prevent any process from writing further logs whilst it's being used.

Public exception handler in database package

I'm working on Oracle 10 g; I have a package with 10 functions, instead of writing exception for each individually is there is a way to do the same exception handler in all without repeating the exception handler in the 10 function (my exception handler is the same for the 10 function)

It would depend on how you are using the functions, and what exactly your exception handler does.
If, for example, your handler for no_data_found does a specific select statement, then you could put this statement in another function and call that function in the exception handler of each of the 10 functions. Note that you would need to catch the exception in eacg function, but the common code would be in one place. Something like:
FUNCTION error_func RETURN NUMBER IS
BEGIN
   SELECT other_stuff INTO var;
   RETURN var;
END;
function1 RETURN NUMBER IS;
BEGIN
   SELECT stuff INTO var;
   RETURN var;
EXCEPTION
   WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
      effor_func;
END;
function2 RETURN NUMBER IS;
BEGIN
   SELECT stuff INTO var;
   RETURN var;
EXCEPTION
   WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
      effor_func;
END;
function3 RETURN NUMBER IS;
BEGIN
   SELECT stuff INTO var;
   RETURN var;
EXCEPTION
   WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
      effor_func;
END;If you always run all 10 functions in sequence, then you could make a wrapper to call the functions, and catch exceptions in the wrapper. Something along the lines of:
FUNCTION wrapper RETURN NUMBER IS;
BEGIN
   function1;
   function2;
   function10;
EXCEPTION
   WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
      do something;
END;As constructed here, the wrapper wil not know which function errored nor will it continue running the other functions after getting an error.
John

Environment.Exit hangs when called from an application domain exception handler

I've implemented a handler for exceptions not thrown in the main GUI thread of my C# WinForms application, as follows:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += OnUnhandledExceptionThrown;
This handler is called from a background thread. The last statement in this handler is a call to
Environment.Exit with the application exit code. However, the application hangs in this call. From within Visual Studio, it hangs and I'm unable to break the application; I have to use Task Manager to terminate Visual Studio. Environment.Exit
works fine when called from the unhandled exception handler for the GUI thread. Is there a better way to terminate the application in the context of an unhandled exception thrown by a background thread?

Are you just trying to avoid a crash? Environment.Exit can cause deadlocking if exiting in the wrong kind of scenario; if you're just trying to avoid a crash, use
GetCurrentProcess with
TerminateProcess to terminate your own process. It skips the notification phases that Environment.Exit uses which prevents the common deadlock scenarios.
WinSDK Support Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/winsdk/

Add three stored procs in one big proc and add exception handling

I have three proc's,
1. sp_staging
2. sp_upload
3. sp_process.
Now, I have to create a new proc as sp_daily which has the other three proc's in it in the same order.
if the first proc sp_staging fails, then the sp_daily proc should stop executing the other proc's which are in the order.
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_daily
AS
BEGIN TRY
EXEC sp_staging (already has EXCEPTION handling IN it)
GO
EXEC sp_upload (already has EXCEPTION handling IN it)
GO
EXEC sp_process (already has EXCEPTION handling IN it)
GO
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
-- If any of the above proc's fail, the next proc's should not be executed
END CATCH
Something like this????

Hi naveej,
Whether the Stored Procedure sp_daily stops executing if the first sp_staging fails depends on how you code. To give a better demonstration, I will show the scenario that sp_upload runs with error. Please see the below code.
--create the scenario
USE master;
IF db_id('TestDB') IS NULL
CREATE DATABASE TestDB;
USE TestDB;
IF OBJECT_ID('T1') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE T1;
GO
CREATE TABLE T1
procName varchar(99)
IF OBJECT_ID('sp_staging') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROCEDURE "sp_staging";
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE "sp_staging" @denominator FLOAT
AS
BEGIN TRY
DECLARE @quotient FLOAT;
SET @denominator=1/@denominator; -- when @denominator=0, error occurs
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES('sp_staging finished');
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
END CATCH
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('sp_upload') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROCEDURE "sp_upload";
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE "sp_upload" @denominator FLOAT
AS
BEGIN TRY
DECLARE @quotient FLOAT;
SET @denominator=1/@denominator;
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES('sp_upload finished');
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
DECLARE @ERRMSG VARCHAR(99);
SELECT @ERRMSG=ERROR_MESSAGE()+'sp_upload failed, process continues';
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES(@ERRMSG);
END CATCH
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('sp_process') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROCEDURE "sp_process";
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE "sp_process" @denominator FLOAT
AS
BEGIN TRY
DECLARE @quotient FLOAT;
SET @denominator=1/@denominator;
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES('sp_process finished');
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
END CATCH
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('sp_daily') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROCEDURE "sp_daily";
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE "sp_daily" @p1Deno FLOAT,@p2Deno FLOAT,@p3Deno FLOAT
AS
BEGIN TRY
EXEC sp_staging @p1Deno;
EXEC sp_upload @p2Deno;
EXEC sp_process @p3Deno;
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
INSERT INTO T1 SELECT ERROR_MESSAGE()+'error captured by sp_daily';
END CATCH
GO
--Test Example
TRUNCATE TABLE T1;
EXEC sp_daily 1,0,1;
SELECT * FROM T1;
We can judge from the rows in T1, sp_daily continued even when there came a error in sp_upload. The reason for the continuity is that the error which occurred in sp_upload was caught and handled by sp_upload itself. Sp_daily's CATCH block didn't capture
any error(we didnt see any row like "error captured by sp_daily") so sp_dailys continued running with no interruption.
Let’s make a little modification on the sp_upload. see the below code.
ALTER PROCEDURE "sp_upload" @denominator FLOAT
AS
BEGIN TRY
DECLARE @quotient FLOAT;
SET @denominator=1/@denominator;
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES('sp_upload');
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
DECLARE @ERRMSG VARCHAR(99),@ErrSeverity INT;
SELECT @ERRMSG=ERROR_MESSAGE()+'sp_upload failed, process got terminated',@ErrSeverity=ERROR_SEVERITY();
RAISERROR(@ERRMSG ,@ErrSeverity,1);
END CATCH
GO
--Test Example
TRUNCATE TABLE T1;
EXEC sp_daily 1,0,1;
SELECT * FROM T1;
At this time, sp_daily got terminated when sp_upload encountered an error. Sp_upload didn’t handle the error, it threw the error instead. Then the CATCH block in sp_daily caught the error and interrupted sp_daily itself. If you don’t
need to handle the error which may occur inside of the inner called procedures, the TRY and CATCH block in the procedure which calls them would be enough to catch and handle the errors anywhere it occurs, just remove the blocks from the called ones.
ALTER PROCEDURE "sp_staging" @denominator FLOAT
AS
DECLARE @quotient FLOAT;
SET @denominator=1/@denominator;
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES('sp_staging finished');
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE "sp_upload" @denominator FLOAT
AS
DECLARE @quotient FLOAT;
SET @denominator=1/@denominator;
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES('sp_upload finished');
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE "sp_process" @denominator FLOAT
AS
DECLARE @quotient FLOAT;
SET @denominator=1/@denominator;
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES('sp_process finished');
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE "sp_daily" @p1Deno FLOAT,@p2Deno FLOAT,@p3Deno FLOAT
AS
BEGIN TRY
EXEC sp_staging @p1Deno;
EXEC sp_upload @p2Deno;
EXEC sp_process @p3Deno;
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
INSERT INTO T1 SELECT ERROR_MESSAGE();
END CATCH
GO
--Test Example
TRUNCATE TABLE T1;
EXEC sp_daily 1,0,1;
SELECT * FROM T1;
As we can see from the above modification, sp_daily calls sp_staging, sp_upload, sp_process in order. Sp_staging runs fine so it finishes. When it comes to sp_upload, error gets captured so the execution terminates. Anyway if you hope that the 3
called procedures work atomically(it is a pretty common business requirement), which means unless all of the three finish otherwise no one finishes, the TRAN block would help. Please see the below code.
ALTER PROCEDURE "sp_daily" @p1Deno FLOAT,@p2Deno FLOAT,@p3Deno FLOAT
AS
BEGIN TRY
BEGIN TRAN
EXEC sp_staging @p1Deno;
EXEC sp_upload @p2Deno;
EXEC sp_process @p3Deno;
COMMIT TRAN;
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
ROLLBACK TRAN;
INSERT INTO T1 SELECT ERROR_MESSAGE();
END CATCH
GO
--Test Example
TRUNCATE TABLE T1;
EXEC sp_daily 1,0,1;
SELECT * FROM T1;
If you have question, feel free to let me know.
Best Regards,
Eric Zhang

Generic error/exception handler

Well guys, I think I got a challenge for you: I have been thinking for some time about the idea of having a generic error handler for my applications. It's one of these things you should just have: In large GUI apps you usually try to catch all exceptions and display some sort of nice error dialog telling the user what went wrong and what he has to do now. However, there are runtime errors that one can't foresee. These might be bugs, sure, but they happen, so there should be a way of dealing with them. For example, let's say there is a NullPointerException. The clean way would be to display a message box saying something like "Bug!" and giving the user the chance to save his work (or do that automatically). However, this does not seem to be possible. Sure, I could surround every method code with a try { ... }catch(Exception e) and display the dialog, but that seems rather tedious. Does anyone know a better way? Like a common error handling method that is always called when there is an uncaught exception. I dunno, but my IDE JBuilder has something like that, because it is able to stop at "all uncaught exceptions". Any suggestions?
Thanks guys, or do we have to file a RFE???
Filip Rindler

Well, that doesn't work for GUI apps as their main method is done after initializing and all other work is done by the event dispatch thread that is responsible for receiving OS messages (such as mouse motion / clicked / ...). Then this thread calls the event listener methods of registered listeners. It's actually a little more complex how AWT/Swing handles things, but that's the general concept and it is the core of the problem as well: I cannot change any of the event dispatch code (it's deep down in the AWT), so therefore I cannot catch any exceptions there. But maybe there's a hook...

MC.9 and MCY1 and Exception Handling in (Logistics Inf. Sys)LIS

Hi,
I want the 'Valuated Stock Value" greater then or equal to zero (>=) appear in the MC.9 report. I can create 'Exception' in MCY1 but am unable to do so. Once I am in MCY1; I choose 'Requirements' then Key Figure 'Valuated Stock Value' then 'Type of condition' is 'Threshold Val. Anal.' is set to '> 0'. However, the report still displays zero values in MC.9. I don't want to display 'Valuated Stock Value' zero to be displayed on the report. Please help.
Thanks
Naved

Hey Chris,
I got the point for exception handling in weblogic 9.2. We ae using 9.2. It comes up with the concept of shared page flows which means all my unhandled exceptions are thrown to the shared page flow controller. There based on the type of exception, i can forward the request to appropraite page.
Thanks anywyas,
Saurabh

Delete Statement Exception Handling

Hi guys,
I have a problem in my procedure. There are 3 parameters that I am passing into the procedure. I am matching these parameters to those in the table to delete one record at a time.
For example if I would like to delete the record with the values ('900682',3,'29-JUL-2008') as parameters, it deletes the record from the table but then again when I execute it with the same parameters it should show me an error message but it again says 'Deleted the Transcript Request.....' Can you please help me with this?
PROCEDURE p_delete_szptpsr_1 (p_shttran_id IN saturn.shttran.shttran_id%TYPE,
p_shttran_seq_no IN saturn.shttran.shttran_seq_no%TYPE,
p_shttran_request_date IN saturn.shttran.shttran_request_date%TYPE) IS
BEGIN
DELETE FROM saturn.shttran
WHERE shttran.shttran_id = p_shttran_id
and shttran.shttran_seq_no = p_shttran_seq_no
and trunc(shttran_request_date) = trunc(p_shttran_request_date);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Deleted the Transcript Request Seq No (' || p_shttran_seq_no || ') of the Student (' || p_shttran_id ||') for the requested date of (' || p_shttran_request_date ||')');
COMMIT;
EXCEPTION WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Error: The supplied Notre Dame Student ID = (' || p_shttran_id ||
'), Transcript Request No = (' || p_shttran_seq_no || '), Request Date = (' || p_shttran_request_date || ') was not found.');
END p_delete_szptpsr_1;
Should I have a SELECT statement to use NO_DATA_FOUND ???

A DELETE statement that deletes no rows (just like an UPDATE statement that updates no rows) is not an error to Oracle. Oracle won't throw any exception.
If you want your code to throw an exception, you'll need to write that logic. You could throw a NO_DATA_FOUND exception yourself, i.e.
IF( SQL%ROWCOUNT = 0 )
THEN
RAISE no_data_found;
END IF;If you are just going to catch the exception, though, you could just embed whatever code you would use to handle the exception in your IF statement, i.e.
IF( SQL%ROWCOUNT = 0 )
THEN
<<do something about the exception>>
END IF;In your original code, your exception handler is just a DBMS_OUTPUT statement. That is incredibly dangerous in real production code. You are relying on the fact that the client has enabled output, that the client has allocated a large enough buffer, that the user is going to see the message, and that the procedure will never be called from any piece of code that would ever care if it succeeded or failed. There are vanishingly few situations where those are safe things to rely on.
Justin

Exception handling is not working in GCC compile shared object

Hello,
I am facing very strange issue on Solaris x86_64 platform with C++ code compiled usging gcc.3.4.3.
I have compiled shared object that load into web server process space while initialization. Whenever any exception generate in code base, it is not being caught by exception handler. Even though exception handlers are there. Same code is working fine since long time but on Solaris x86, Sparc arch, Linux platform
With Dbx, I am getting following stack trace.
Stack trace is
dbx: internal error: reference through NULL pointer at line 973 in file symbol.cc
[1] 0x11335(0x1, 0x1, 0x474e5543432b2b00, 0x59cb60, 0xfffffd7fffdff2b0, 0x11335), at 0x11335
---- hidden frames, use 'where -h' to see them all ----
=>[4] __cxa_throw(obj = (nil), tinfo = (nil), dest = (nil), , line 75 in "eh_throw.cc"
[5] OBWebGate_Authent(r = 0xfffffd7fff3fb300), line 86 in "apache.cpp"
[6] ap_run_post_config(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0), at 0x444624
[7] main(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0), at 0x42c39a
I am using following link options.
Compile option is
/usr/sfw/bin/g++ -c -I/scratch/ashishas/view_storage/build/coreid1014/palantir/apache22/solaris-x86_64/include -m64 -fPIC -D_REENTRANT -Wall -g -o apache.o apache.cpp
Link option is
/usr/sfw/bin/g++ -shared -m64 -o apache.so apache.o -lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lpthread -lthread
At line 86, we are just throwing simple exception which have catch handlers in place. Also we do have catch(...) handler as well.
Surpursing things are..same issue didn't observe if we make it as executable.
Issue only comes if this is shared object loaded on webserver. If this is plain shared object, opened by anyother exe, it works fine.
Can someone help me out. This is completly blocking issue for us. Using Solaris Sun Studio compiler is no option as of now.

shared object that load into web server process space
... same issue didn't observe if we make it as executable.When you "inject" your shared object into some other process a well-being of your exception handling depends on that other process.
Mechanics of x64 stack traversing (unwind) performed when you throw the exception is quite complicated,
particularly involving a "nearly-standartized" Unwind interface (say, Unwind_RaiseException).
When we are talking about g++ on Solaris there are two implementations of unwind interface, one in libc and one in libgcc_s.so.
When you g++-compile the executable you get it directly linked with libgcc_s.so and Unwind stuff resolves into libgccs.
When g++-compiled shared object is loaded into non-g++-compiled executable's process _Unwind calls are most likely already resolved into Solaris libc.
Thats why you might see the difference.
Now, what exactly causes this difference can vary, I can only speculate.
All that would not be a problem if _Unwind interface was completely standartized and properly implemented.
However there are two issues currently:
* gcc (libstdc++ in particular) happens to use additional non-standard _Unwind calls which are not present in Solaris libc
naturally, implementation details of Unwind implementation in libc differs to that of libgccs, so when all the standard _Unwind
routines are resolved into Solaris version and one non-standard _Unwind routine is resolved into gcc version you get a problem
(most likely that is what happens with you)
* libc Unwind sometimes is unable to decipher the code generated by gcc.
However that is likely to happen with modern gcc (say, 4.4+) and not that likely with 3.4.3
Btw, you can check your call frame to see where _Unwind calls come from:
where -h -lIf you indeed stomped on "mixed _Unwind" problem then the only chance for you is to play with linker
so it binds Unwind stuff from your library directly into libgccs.
Not tried it myself though.
regards,
__Fedor.

Exception handling to catch the outcome of a select

Hello,
I want to use exception handling to exit me out of a function module. I want to have one exception for all errors.
For example, if this select statement does not work, how do I finish up this code to make it work.
error type cx_bsx
try
select * from t001 where BUKRS = '!@#$'
catch <not sure what> into INTO error
raise exception error
endtry.
When I use cx_bsx with the catch, nothing happens even though the select statement fails. Basically I want the catch to work in the same manner as this:
if sy-subrc ne 0.
raise error_table_read.
endif.

If this code is in a function module, then why not just use the function module exceptions.
if sy-subrc ne 0.
raise error_table_read.
endif.
What are you gaining by "catching" this exception in the function module. By using the "exceptions" part of the function module, you are passing this exception back to the calling program.
Regards,
Rich Heilman

Exception handling for all the insert statements in the proc

CREATE PROCEDURE TEST (
@IncrStartDate DATE
,@IncrEndDate DATE
,@SourceRowCount INT OUTPUT
,@TargetRowCount INT OUTPUT
,@ErrorNumber INT OUTPUT
,@ErrorMessage VARCHAR(4000) OUTPUT
,@InsertCase INT --INSERT CASE INPUT
WITH
EXEC AS CALLER AS
BEGIN --Main Begin
SET NOCOUNT ON
BEGIN TRY
DECLARE @SuccessNumber INT = 0
,@SuccessMessage VARCHAR(100) = 'SUCCESS'
,@BenchMarkLoadFlag CHAR(1)
,@BenchmarkFlow INT
,@MonthYearStart DATE
,@MonthYearEnd DATE
,@StartDate DATE
,@EndDate DATE
/* Setting the default values of output parameters to 0.*/
SET @SourceRowCount = 0
SET @TargetRowCount = 0
/*Setting the Start and end date for looping */
SET @MonthYearStart = @IncrStartDate;
SET @MonthYearEnd = @IncrEndDate;
/* Setting the @InsertCase will ensure case wise insertion as this sp will load data in different tables
@InsertCase =0 means data will be inserted in the target TAB1
@InsertCase =1 means data will be inserted in the target TAB2
@InsertCase =2 means data will be inserted in the target TAB3
@InsertCase =3 means data will be inserted in the target TAB4
@InsertCase =4 means data will be inserted in the target TAB5
@InsertCase =5 means data will be inserted in the target TAB6
if @InsertCase =0
WHILE (@MonthYearStart <= @MonthYearEnd)
BEGIN
SET @StartDate = @MonthYearStart;
SET @EndDate = @MonthYearEnd;
/* Delete from target where date range given from input parameter*/
DELETE FROM TAB1
WHERE [MONTH] BETWEEN MONTH(@StartDate) AND MONTH(@EndDate)
AND [YEAR] BETWEEN year(@StartDate) and year(@EndDate)
/*Insert data in target-TAB1 */
BEGIN TRANSACTION
INSERT INTO TAB1
A,B,C
SELECT
A,BC
FROM XYZ
COMMIT TRANSACTION
SET @MonthYearStart = DATEADD(MONTH, 1, @MonthYearStart)
SELECT @TargetRowCount = @TargetRowCount + @@ROWCOUNT;
END -- End of whileloop
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
IF @@TRANCOUNT>0
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
SELECT @ErrorNumber = ERROR_NUMBER() ,@ErrorMessage = ERROR_MESSAGE();
END CATCH
END--End of Main Begin
I have the above proc inserting data based on parameters where in @InsertCase is used for case wise execution.
I have written the whole proc with exception handling using try catch block.
I have just added one insert statement here for 1 case now I need to add further insert cases
INSERT INTO TAB4
                A,B,C
SELECT
                                A,BC
FROM XYZ
INSERT INTO TAB3
                A,B,C
SELECT
                                A,BC
FROM XYZ
INSERT INTO TAB2
                A,B,C
SELECT
                                A,BC
FROM XYZ
I will be using following to insert further insert statements
if @InsertCase =1
I just needed to know where will be my next insert statement should be fitting int his code so that i cover exception handling for all the code
Mudassar

Hi Erland & Mudassar, I have attempted to recreate Mudassar's original problem..here is my TABLE script;
USE [MSDNTSQL]
GO
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[TAB1] Script Date: 2/5/2014 7:47:48 AM ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TAB1](
[COL1] [nvarchar](1) NULL,
[COL2] [nvarchar](1) NULL,
[COL3] [nvarchar](1) NULL,
[START_MONTH] [int] NULL,
[END_MONTH] [int] NULL,
[START_YEAR] [int] NULL,
[END_YEAR] [int] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
Then here is a CREATE script for the SPROC..;
USE [MSDNTSQL]
GO
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[TryCatchTransactions1] Script Date: 2/5/2014 7:51:33 AM ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[TryCatchTransactions1] (
@IncrStartDate DATE
,@IncrEndDate DATE
,@SourceRowCount INT OUTPUT
,@TargetRowCount INT OUTPUT
,@ErrorNumber INT OUTPUT
,@ErrorMessage VARCHAR(4000) OUTPUT
,@InsertCase INT --INSERT CASE INPUT
WITH
EXEC AS CALLER AS
BEGIN --Main Begin
SET NOCOUNT ON
BEGIN TRY
DECLARE @SuccessNumber INT = 0
,@SuccessMessage VARCHAR(100) = 'SUCCESS'
,@BenchMarkLoadFlag CHAR(1)
,@BenchmarkFlow INT
,@MonthYearStart DATE
,@MonthYearEnd DATE
,@StartDate DATE
,@EndDate DATE
/* Setting the default values of output parameters to 0.*/
SET @SourceRowCount = 0
SET @TargetRowCount = 0
/*Setting the Start and end date for looping */
SET @MonthYearStart = @IncrStartDate;
SET @MonthYearEnd = @IncrEndDate;
/* Setting the @InsertCase will ensure case wise insertion as this sp will load data in different tables
@InsertCase =0 means data will be inserted in the target TAB1
@InsertCase =1 means data will be inserted in the target TAB2
@InsertCase =2 means data will be inserted in the target TAB3
@InsertCase =3 means data will be inserted in the target TAB4
@InsertCase =4 means data will be inserted in the target TAB5
@InsertCase =5 means data will be inserted in the target TAB6
IF @InsertCase =0
WHILE (@MonthYearStart <= @MonthYearEnd)
BEGIN
SET @StartDate = @MonthYearStart;
SET @EndDate = @MonthYearEnd;
/* Delete from target where date range given from input parameter*/
DELETE FROM TAB1
WHERE START_MONTH BETWEEN MONTH(@StartDate) AND MONTH(@EndDate)
AND START_YEAR BETWEEN year(@StartDate) and YEAR(@EndDate)
/*Insert data in target-TAB1 */
BEGIN TRANSACTION
INSERT INTO TAB1 (COL1,COL2,COL3)
VALUES ('Z','X','Y')
SELECT COL1, COL2, COL3
FROM TAB1
COMMIT TRANSACTION
SET @MonthYearStart = DATEADD(MONTH, 1, @MonthYearStart)
SELECT @TargetRowCount = @TargetRowCount + @@ROWCOUNT;
END -- End of whileloop
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
SELECT @ErrorNumber = ERROR_NUMBER() ,@ErrorMessage = ERROR_MESSAGE();
END CATCH
PRINT @SUCCESSMESSAGE
END--End of Main Begin
GO
I am just trying to help --danny rosales
UML, then code

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