Help Select Query

Question

Hello,
I am using oracle 9i and windows XP. I created following script :
STORE SET saved_settings REPLACE
SET ECHO OFF FEEDBACK OFF HEADING OFF SERVEROUTPUT ON SIZE 1000000 VERIFY OFF
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'DD-MON-YYYY';
ACCEPT name_of_candidate PROMPT 'Enter Candidate Name:'
ACCEPT name_of_father PROMPT 'Enter Father Name:'
SPOOL S.sql
BEGIN
SELECT ROLL_NO,CENT,COLL_CD,NAME,F_NAME FROM JJ.SRM08 WHERE NAME LIKE '&name_of_candidate%' AND F_NAME LIKE '&name_of_father%';
END;
SPOOL OFF
START saved_settings
START S.SQL
It gives me output; but before output it says :
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-06550: line 2, column 1:
PLS-00428: an INTO clause is expected in this SELECT statement
Please guide me how to resolve this error.
Regards

Answer 1

That's even worse for a couple of reasons, although the select into while using PL/SQL is correct. For one, there is no error handling. For two, what if the output is huge? Plus, if you want output, where is the serveroutput setting? And, no trailing slash to make this block runnable.
SQL> set serveroutput on
SQL> DECLARE
  2    l_roll_no number;
  3    l_cent number;
  4    l_coll_cd varchar2(20);
  5    l_name varchar2(20);
  6    l_f_name varchar2(20);
  7  BEGIN
  8    SELECT ROLL_NO,CENT,COLL_CD,NAME,F_NAME
  9      INTO l_roll_no,l_cent,l_coll_cd,l_name,l_f_name
10      FROM SRM08
11     WHERE NAME LIKE '&name_of_candidate%'
12       AND F_NAME LIKE '&name_of_father%';
13    dbms_output.put_line(l_roll_no || l_cent || l_coll_cd || l_name || l_f_name);
14  END;
15  /
Enter value for name_of_candidate: smith
old  11:    WHERE NAME LIKE '&name_of_candidate%'
new  11:    WHERE NAME LIKE 'smith%'
Enter value for name_of_father: joe
old  12:      AND F_NAME LIKE '&name_of_father%';
new  12:      AND F_NAME LIKE 'joe%';
DECLARE
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01403: no data found
ORA-06512: at line 8It would have been much better to simply remove the PL/SQL block structure from the SQL.