ORA-00917: missing comma when using NVL

Hi All,
I have a INSERT statement which works fine and looks something like:
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
'insert into MYTABLE(ID,TASK_ROLE, PROGRESS,SALES_PERSON) values ...
However if I change the above piece to use NVL function like this:
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
'insert into MYTABLE(ID,TASK_ROLE, NVL(PROGRESS,''0''),SALES_PERSON) values ...
I am getting the following error:
ORA-00917: missing comma
Where should I enter the extra comman needed?
Regards,
Pawel.

Hi these are in fact two simple quotes '. If I use only one simple quote I get an error:
1 error has occurred
ORA-06550: line 48, column 239: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "0" when expecting one of the following: * & = - + ; < / > at in is mod remainder not rem return returning <> or != or ~= >= <= <> and or like LIKE2_ LIKE4_ LIKEC_ between into using || multiset bulk member SUBMULTISET_ The symbol "* was inserted before "0" to continue.
Same thing happens if I ommit the quotes at all and leave it like NVL(PROGRESS,0)
Edited by: padmocho on Sep 20, 2010 11:37 AM

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my best advice is find out where the error happens, e.g. using DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE .
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Through some searching (and yes I have checked on this site and Google for "Missing Parameter Values") I have found one big issue is that parameter values have to be set after the .ReportSource is set. So before I changed my code, I never saw the Crystal Parameter prompt screen. Now I see it but still get the crash (though once I have had it go to printer honouring the Parameter in a report, but I can't always reproduce it and never when sending to pdf).
The reports may be designed by end users who are using my program. I will not know what reports they are or if they have even put in parameters. I will not know if they are date, string, number, discrete, range, multiple, etc.
The original login code referred to below can be found here.
         'original login code here down to subreport login
         'rest of subroutine is just a Catch and End Try
         crViewer.ReportSource = Nothing
         crViewer.ReportSource = crReport
         'check if to be sent direct to printer and send all pages
         If Not autoforms Is Nothing AndAlso autoforms.ToPrinter Then
            crReport.PrintOptions.PrinterName = autoforms.Printer
            crReport.PrintToPrinter(1, True, 0, 0)   '-> Error Triggers Here
         End If
         'setup viewer options
         Dim intExportFormatFlags As Integer
         intExportFormatFlags = ViewerExportFormats.PdfFormat Or
                                 ViewerExportFormats.ExcelFormat Or
                                 ViewerExportFormats.ExcelRecordFormat Or
                                 ViewerExportFormats.XLSXFormat Or
                                 ViewerExportFormats.CsvFormat
         crViewer.AllowedExportFormats = intExportFormatFlags
         crViewer.ShowLogo = False
         crViewer.ToolPanelView = ToolPanelViewType.GroupTree
         'check if to be sent direct to pdf and send all pages
         If Not autoforms Is Nothing AndAlso autoforms.ToPDF Then
            Dim strPDFFilename As String = autoforms.PDFPath & "\" & autoforms.ReportName & "_" & autoforms.ReportType & ".pdf"
            'strPDFFilename = Replace(strPDFFilename, " ", "_")
            SendExport(strPDFFilename, "PDF")
         End If
         'if not preview then close form
         If Not autoforms Is Nothing AndAlso Not autoforms.Preview Then
            Me.Close()
            Exit Sub
         End If
Private Sub SendExport(ByVal strFile As String, ByVal strExportFormat As String)
      'pass current parameter values to the pdf
      Dim crParamFieldDefs As ParameterFieldDefinitions
      Dim crParamFieldDef As ParameterFieldDefinition
      Dim crParamValues As New ParameterValues
      Dim x As Integer = crViewer.ParameterFieldInfo.Count
      crParamFieldDefs = crReport.DataDefinition.ParameterFields
      'loop through each parameter and assign it the current values
      For Each crParamFieldDef In crParamFieldDefs
         crParamValues = crParamFieldDef.CurrentValues
         crParamFieldDef.ApplyCurrentValues(crParamValues)
      Next
      Select Case strExportFormat
         Case Is = "PDF"
            crReport.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, strFile) '--> Error Triggers Here
         Case Is = "xls"
            crReport.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.Excel, strFile)
         Case Is = "xlsx"
            crReport.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.ExcelWorkbook, strFile)
      End Select
End Sub
This code doesn't work on my system, but my logic is as follows (as flawed as it is). Look through the parameters, find the current values and then assign them to the parameters again just before export.
With the code above, I am getting the enter parameter values screen in the viewer. Therefore, my assumption is that the report now has a current value(s) for the parameter(s). The loop will not require the program to know how may parameters there are or what the values or value types are.
There are a couple of problems with this. When I step through it, there are no current values, because the prompt doesn't come up with stepping through the code with F8. Second problem is that it is finding the internal parameters used for subreport linking ({?PM-xxxxx}). Third problem is that a lot of code I have looked at does not appear like it is assigning the reportsource to a viewer at all just to export or print to printer. So is it necessary to do as I have done here?
I am sorry this is so long and I appreciate anyone who has stuck to it this long. I am at my wits end trying to figure out how to make this work. I think there is a timing issue here but do not know how to resolve it. I just want the report to trigger the prompts if there are parameters, then send the report screen, to pdf or to printer depending on the user's settings for the report (it may be any or all three options). If you need more info, let me know.
TIA, rasinc

Hi
I'd like to look at this from the "how parameters" work point of view. Then let's see if we can drill in on some of the details.
The parameter prompt screen is driven by the viewer. E,g.; the screen will only be spawned on invocation of the viewer. If the viewer is not invoked (e.g.; direct print / export) the parameter prompt screen will not be displayed. Now, in your second post you say:
With the code above, I am getting the enter parameter values screen in the viewer.
This does not sound correct based on the above. E.g.; if the correct parameters are passed to the engine, the viewer should never be popping up the parameter screen. So to me it looks like the code for the parameter is not actually working. It looks like it is as there is no error as such. But as you get prompted, the engine is essentially saying; "I don't understand those parameters so as smart as I am, I'll use the parameter prompt screen to get them from the user on a silver platter".
Ok. Now to some troubleshooting. I'd pick a report where I know the parameter type and acceptable values ahead of time. Don't use date or date / time params to start with as these have other complication. Use the parameter code to set the value(s) - preferably one value (I like to keep things simple). If the parameter is passed to the report engine correctly, there will not be a parameter prompt and the report will simply come up in the viewer. Once this works, add in a code for printing / exporting and comment out the viewer code. The report should print / export without any issues (no parameter prompt, no error). Repeat the above with a multi-parameter report.
Then it will come to those date and date/time parameters. NULL handling, etc., etc. E.g.; this will not be trivial. And you will somehow need to know the parameter type (string / int / date) before you try to pass it into the report. More help:
Sample apps
vbnet_win_paramengine.zip
vbnet_win_paramviewer.zip
vbnet_win_multirangeparam.zip
vbnet_win_rangeparameters.zip
vbnet_win_sub_daterange_param_engine.zip
vbnet_win_sub_daterange_param_viewer.zip
The above samples are here: Crystal Reports for .NET SDK Samples - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki
Helpful KBAs
1688710 - When printing a Crystal report with parameters using 'PrintToPrinter' method, report does not prompt for parameter values
1214110 - How to pass a Date/Time parameter to a report at runtime using VB .NET
1496220 - Suppress the default parameter prompt when the parameter value is not passed through the code
1893554 - How to pass a NULL value to a Crystal Reports optional parameter field using Visual Studio .NET
1425379 - How to avoid being prompted for a parameter when refreshing a report running in a VS .NET application
1461315 - Error; "Missing Parameter Values" when running a parameterized report using Crystal Reports SDK for VS .NET
1215426 - Err Msg: "Missing parameter value" when printing or exporting in VS .NET
And finally this:
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 Walkthroughs
(The above doc is good for all versions of CR and VS. It has some amazingly great "stuff" in it re. parameters, etc., and more.)
- Ludek
Senior Support Engineer AGS Product Support, Global Support Center Canada
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I am using Acrobat Pro 9 in Wnidows 7 and Microsoft Publisher 2003.
When I use the CONVERT command to create a PDF - it is missing all of the text on the master page.
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PS: The same Publisher File on another computer using Acrobat Pro 8 works fine - CONVERT or PRINT and no missing text
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Hi All
I am using Jdeveloper 11g R2 (11.1.2.3) & Weblogic 10.3.5.0
I have 2 bounded task flow in my application (A and B)
Each contain a fragment with few tabs (using af:panelTabbed)
I have another common functionality in this 2 bounded task flows
So I create another bounded task flow and add it as a region in tabs in task flows A and B
But when I am going to the common tab and insert record and commit using task flow commit it is not commit records in database
Is something wrong ? Any ideas how I can fix it?
Regards
Mohsen

Hi Frank
I am using below code for commit (from TaskFlowUtils class)
public void commitTaskFlow() {
getDataControlFrame().commit();
public DataControlFrame getDataControlFrame() {
BindingContext bindingContext = oracle.adf.controller.binding.BindingUtils.getBindingContext();
String dataControlFrameName = bindingContext.getCurrentDataControlFrame();
DataControlFrame dataControlFrame = bindingContext.findDataControlFrame(dataControlFrameName);
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Your comment was too helpful , I change data control scope to shared and it is working now
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Is adding bounded task flow into another fragment as region an advised approach?
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Hello,
I use RESOLVECONFLICT component for a new filter.
I have an insufficient privileges error :
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privilege granted to my user :
grant EXECUTE ANY RULE SET to "GGADM" WITH ADMIN OPTION;
grant SELECT ANY DICTIONARY to "GGADM" ;
grant UPDATE ANY TABLE to "GGADM" ;
grant INSERT ANY TABLE to "GGADM" ;
grant LOCK ANY TABLE to "GGADM" ;
grant CREATE TABLE to "GGADM" ;
grant CREATE RULE to "GGADM" WITH ADMIN OPTION;
grant CREATE RULE SET to "GGADM" WITH ADMIN OPTION;
grant DELETE ANY TABLE to "GGADM" ;
grant UNLIMITED TABLESPACE to "GGADM" ;
grant ALTER SESSION to "GGADM" ;
grant CREATE EVALUATION CONTEXT to "GGADM" WITH ADMIN OPTION;
grant DEQUEUE ANY QUEUE to "GGADM" WITH ADMIN OPTION;
grant CREATE JOB to "GGADM" ;
grant SELECT ANY TRANSACTION to "GGADM" ;
grant CREATE SESSION to "GGADM" ;
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Hello,
Try to grant SELECT ANY TABLE to GGADM;
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I am following this tutorial from Oracle on how to use WS-AT
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/web.1111/e13734/transaction.htm
A brief description about my application, which is wrote in JDeveloper:
Two applications, one for web service and one for client.
The WS is backed by an stateless EJB, which use JPA entity to do operations on the Oracle XE DB. The EJB transaction is container-managed, and the Entity Manager is retrieved from the JTA Datasource by using @PersistenceContext
I put this on the EJB implementation class:
@WebService(...)
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value = Transactional.TransactionFlowType.MANDATORY)
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@Transactional(version = Transactional.Version.WSAT10,
value = Transactional.TransactionFlowType.MANDATORY)
The client EJB is also annotated with:
@TransactionAttribute(value = TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
Both applications are deployed successfully in the integrated weblogic server. But when I run the method in the client EJB that call the WS to do a persisting operation on the DB, the following exception is thrown:
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which causes:
Exception occurred during commit of transaction Name=[EJB +_the client EJB's calling method_+
The weird thing is, if I call a method which does a simple System.out.println (no DB related operation) then no exception is thrown.
Furthermore, if I switch both WS EJB and client EJB to use bean managed transaction, the transaction is not propagated properly, as I see that UserTransaction in the WS EJB does not have the same status as UserTransaction in the Client EJB.
Hence I'm suspecting that there is some issue during step 4 described in the Oracle documentation:
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*Application B executes within the context of the imported transaction. All transactional resources with which the application interacts are enlisted with this imported transaction*."
This is all I can find. Please help me on how to resolve the exception.
Thanks.

Hi r035198x,
Thanks for your help. The problem indeed is in the non-XA datasource I used for the EntityManager. I created datasource what uses XA Thin Oracle driver and everything works fine now, commit and rollback both work nicely.
Again thanks a lot.

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set serveroutput ON SIZE 1000000
set heading off
set feedback off
set trimspool off
set echo off
set term off
set pagesize 0
SPOOL &so_outfile;
DECLARE
v_data_file          varchar2(30);
--   v_sch_code            varchar2(10);
--   v_instance_name       varchar2(10);
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    v_data_line           VARCHAR2 (2000)                              := NULL;
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    v_line_count          NUMBER                                       := 0;
    v_selected_count      NUMBER                                       := 0;
    v_error_count         NUMBER                                       := 0;
    v_written_count       NUMBER                                       := 0;
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    v_sqlerrm             VARCHAR2 (255);
    v_payment_type        VARCHAR2(10);
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select RTRIM
        AMRCONF_PIDM_ERR            ||'|'||
        AMRCONF_IDEN_CODE_ERR       ||'|'||
        AMRCONF_ENTRY_DATE_ERR      ||'|'||
        AMRCONF_CONFID_IND_ERR      ||'|'||
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        AMRSUBJ_SUBJ_CODE_ERR       ||'|'||
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/* Name The File Here */
v_data_file := ('Amaconf_error.txt');
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     WHEN OTHERS
      THEN
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       v_error_count := v_error_count + 1;
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END;
SPOOL OFF;If I comment out the "AMRCONF_COMMENT_ERR ||'|'||" line, then the script works fine. The table was created as:
Create Table WSUALUMNI.AMRCONF_ERR
    AMRCONF_PIDM_ERR             NUMBER (8)    NOT NULL,
    AMRCONF_IDEN_CODE_ERR        VARCHAR2(5)   NOT NULL,
    AMRCONF_ENTRY_DATE_ERR       DATE          NOT NULL,
    AMRCONF_CONFID_IND_ERR       VARCHAR2(1),
    AMRCONF_COMMENT_ERR          LONG,
    AMRSUBJ_SUBJ_CODE_ERR        VARCHAR2(5)   NOT NULL,
    ERROR_CODE                   VARCHAR2(12) NOT NULL,
    ERROR_CODE_TEXT              VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL
); I don't get what is the problem here in the script.

Hi,
Feew suggestions
1) LONG is a deprecated type hence if possible start working on changing that column
2) CLOB will your preferred datatype over LONG.
3) you cannot use RTRIM on long.
here is a very quick example
drop table h
create table h (x long,y varchar2(100))
select rtrim(x) from h
select rtrim(y) from hSolution:
[http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/code/tips2003/052503.html]
need a better solution change the datatype to clob and
drop table h
create table h (x clob,y varchar2(100))
select dbms_lob.substr( x, 4000, 1 ) from h
select rtrim(y) from hCheers!!!
Bhushan

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