Deleting a row from a Procedure

Question

Hi All
Can one of you tell me how to delete a row from a Procedure
It is created with
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE report.NAMEOFTABLE
(nPutId IN Report.ID%TYPE,
cArea IN Report.Area%TYPE,
cSubject IN Report.Subject%TYPE,
nUserId IN Report.EngineerID%TYPE,
cDesc IN Report.Description%TYPE,
cSide IN Report.SideEffects%TYPE,
cImpact IN Report.Impact%TYPE,
cNotes IN Report.Notes%TYPE,
nValid IN Report.Valid%TYPE) AS
-- Add or update Report
-- If nId < 1 then a record is added, otherwise updated.
BEGIN
IF nId < 1 THEN
INSERT INTO Report
(Area, Subject, EngineerID,
Description, SideEffects, Impact,
ReportNotes, Valid)
VALUES
(cArea, cSubject, nUserId, cDesc, cSide, cImpact, cNotes, nValid);
ELSE
UPDATE Report
SET ReportArea = cArea,
ReportSubject = cSubject,
ReportDescription = cDesc,
ReportSideEffects = cSide,
ReportImpact = cImpact,
ReportNotes = cNotes,
ReportValid = nValid
WHERE ReportID = nPutId;
END IF;
COMMIT;
END;
CREATE SYNONYM Admin.NAMEOFTABLE
Report.NAMEOFTABLE;
But I need to make 1 field of the impact and the sideEffect called the ImpactEffect
So how do i delete the field of Side effect and change the name of the Impact field.
Sould I make a new Procedure?

Answer 1

If you want to delete a row, you'd need a DELETE statement. It is not obvious to me, though, that you really want to delete a row. It sounds like you're trying to update a row, and there is an UPDATE statement in the procedure. Unfortunately, I'm very unsure exactly what you're trying to accomplish and how this procedure relates to that goal. Perhaps if you could post the starting state of the row, the procedure call you're trying to make, and the end state of that row, things might be much clearer.
As an aside, do you really have a schema and a table named REPORT? That seems rather confusing.
Justin