Help with APP_USER in SQL query

Question

Hi,
I would like to extract a user details in one Item of DML form based on the Logged user and standard authentication schema.
I have this query in the Item:
select ANALYST_FIRST_NAME ||' '|| ANALYST_LAST_NAME d, ANALYST_ID r from QTMT_ANALYST where EMAIL = :APP_USER The User in the session is equal to the EMAIL value. In fact, the value in the session is upper case and the other in the database is lower case. I believe that that is not relevant anyway.
The query do not bring any value. Could you please let me know what I have got wrong?
APEX: 4.2
Item Source Type: SQL Query (return single value)
Thank you and best regards,
Vladimir

Answer 1

To be on the safe side you should uppercase both sides of the equation. It could be that the username is entered in lower case.
But if you think that your query is correct, test it by using a literal instead of the user name.
select ANALYST_FIRST_NAME ||' '|| ANALYST_LAST_NAME d
from QTMT_ANALYST
where upper(EMAIL) = upper(:APP_USER);for testing purposes use something like this:
select ANALYST_FIRST_NAME ||' '|| ANALYST_LAST_NAME d
from QTMT_ANALYST
where upper(EMAIL) = upper('[email protected]');Edited by: Sven W. on Oct 23, 2012 1:30 PM
APEX: 4.2
Item Source Type: SQL Query ( return single value )I just noticed that you use an item which has this as the SQL source. This works only if the sql returns one row and one column only. Therefore I removed the second column from your query.
Edited by: Sven W. on Oct 23, 2012 1:33 PM