Oracle Express SQL scripts is displaying in Red not Green

The SQL script display is very hard to read in red. Noramlly it is light Green and easy to read, I belive it is using JAVA to render.

This is a [long standing problem in some browsers/configurations|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/search.jspa?threadID=&q=%22Script+editor%22+AND+RED&objID=f137&dateRange=all&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001]. There's nothing you can do about it except switch to a supported browser, or use an alternative tool like [SQL Developer|http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html] when working with PL/SQL.

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Can i run or test oracle pl sql scripts online?

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Qosmio F30-117 - Display issues - red and green lines

Hi there,
I have a qosmio F30-117 and up to recently, I was delighted with everything about it.
Then, mid session, the graphics began to deteriorate, which a reboot fixed.
Then a few days later, it did it again and this time when I rebooted it came up with a corrupted display, lots of aa's all over the place then lines of red and green all over.
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Hi
I think it's a common problem in the Qosmio F30 models. After long term use, the soldering balls under the GPU chipset start to melt down because of the over heat and the bad soldering quality that was used with the F30 model that cannot resist high temperature. Now you have to replace the motherboard, since the GPU is build within the motherboard.
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DECLARE
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By : Vinod Kumar
Date : 08/19/2011
Modification History
By When TAR Description
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION FETCH_ORDER_PRODUCT_DATA(orderNumber IN VARCHAR2, customerNumber IN VARCHAR2,
productLine IN VARCHAR2, ODNumber OUT VARCHAR2,
Line_Number OUT VARCHAR2, ServiceID OUT VARCHAR2,
BilltoNumber OUT VARCHAR2, AnnualPrice OUT NUMBER,
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lv_err_msg VARCHAR2(100) := '';
lv_bucket_id VARCHAR2(14);
lv_bill_number VARCHAR2(30);
lv_anual_price NUMBER;
lv_coverage_code VARCHAR2(8);
lv_quote_num NUMBER(10) := NULL;
lv_line_num NUMBER(5) := 0;
lv_customer_number VARCHAR2(30) := customerNumber;
lv_product_id VARCHAR2(14) := productLine;
lv_count_quote NUMBER := 0;
lv_quote_status VARCHAR2(5);
lv_quote_version NUMBER(2):=0;
BEGIN
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lv_quote_num := orderNumber;
ELSE
lv_quote_num := SPT_Delimiter(orderNumber, 1, '-');
lv_line_num := SPT_Delimiter(orderNumber, 2, '-');
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SELECT COUNT(*) INTO lv_count_quote FROM sot_order_header WHERE ORDER_NUMBER=lv_quote_num
AND ORDER_STATUS IN ('APP', 'COM') AND CUSTOMER_NUMBER = lv_customer_number;
IF lv_count_quote = 0 THEN
lv_err_msg := 'Invalid Order number';
RETURN lv_err_msg;
END IF;
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AND CUSTOMER_NUMBER = lv_customer_number;
-- If quote is valid fetch the data in OUT parameters
IF lv_line_num = 0 THEN
BEGIN
SELECT a.CUSTOMER_BILLTO_NUMBER,
b.LINE_NUMBER, b.BUCKET_ID,
b.ANNUAL_REF_RATE_USD, b.COVERAGE_CODE
INTO lv_bill_number,lv_line_num,lv_bucket_id,lv_anual_price,lv_coverage_code
FROM SPT_QUOTE_HEADER a, SPT_QUOTE_LINE b
WHERE a.QUOTE_NUMBER = lv_quote_num
AND a.CUSTOMER_NUMBER = lv_customer_number
AND a.VERSION_NUMBER = lv_quote_version
AND a.QUOTE_NUMBER = b.QUOTE_NUMBER
AND a.VERSION_NUMBER = b.VERSION_NUMBER
AND b.PRODUCT_ID = lv_product_id;
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BilltoNumber := lv_bill_number;
Line_Number := lv_line_num;
ServiceID := lv_bucket_id;
AnnualPrice := lv_anual_price;
CoverageCode := lv_coverage_code;
RETURN '';
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
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RETURN lv_err_msg;
END;
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT a.CUSTOMER_BILLTO_NUMBER,
b.BUCKET_ID, b.ANNUAL_REF_RATE_USD,
b.COVERAGE_CODE
INTO lv_bill_number,lv_bucket_id,lv_anual_price,lv_coverage_code
FROM SPT_QUOTE_HEADER a, SPT_QUOTE_LINE b
WHERE a.QUOTE_NUMBER = lv_quote_num
AND a.CUSTOMER_NUMBER = lv_customer_number
AND a.VERSION_NUMBER = lv_quote_version
AND a.QUOTE_NUMBER = b.QUOTE_NUMBER
AND a.VERSION_NUMBER = b.VERSION_NUMBER
AND b.PRODUCT_ID = lv_product_id
AND b.LINE_NUMBER = lv_line_num;
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Line_Number := lv_line_num;
ServiceID := lv_bucket_id;
AnnualPrice := lv_anual_price;
CoverageCode := lv_coverage_code;
RETURN '';
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
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END;
END IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
lv_err_msg := '@@@ EXCEPTION THROWN @@@ '|| SUBSTR(SQLERRM,1,120);
RETURN lv_err_msg ;
END;
Don't look at the function, it might have errors but my primary concern is how to test this function. Once I start doing its testing then only i can understand any bugs(if any).
My pl sql is not so good. Im still learning. I don't understand IN and OUT parameters are.
I just know that IN parameters r those whick we pass in to the function wen we call it and OUT parameters are those through which we get the result.
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How to validate SQL scripts

Hi,
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Is there a workaround?

Solved:
Replace the last three lines of the above code with -
I replaced the corresponding section of the above code with:
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OracleXMLDataSetExtJdbc dset =
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Thank you very much for the help.
Rajinder.
"Joseph Weinstein" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi. It's probably because you're calling some Oracle-specific method,passing it
a pool JDBC object, and though the Oracle methos signature says it will
take a generic java.sql.XXX object, it really is going to assume the thingis
an Oracle class, and fails when it tries to cast it to such.
Depending on how you're getting your pool connection, I may have aworkaround.
Joe
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operator.
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PROJECT.PROJ_TITLE,
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FROM ISSUES
WHERE PROJECT.PROJ_ID =
ISSUES.PROJ_ID )
as ISSUES_DATA
FROM PROJECT
WHERE PROJECT.PROJ_ID = 1
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thin driver. But when I execute same thing using a connection from a
Weblogic connection pool (which uses exactly the same Oracle JDBC thin
driver, classes12.zip), I get following error-
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<ERROR>oracle.xml.sql.OracleXMLSQLException: cursorGetMetaData: thismethod
is not supported by OracleXMLDataSetGenJdbc' class. Please use
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Oracle 8.1.5 on Sun Solaris
Oracle JDBC thin Classes12.zip (from Oracle 8.1.6)
Oracle XML SQL utility XSU12_ver1_2_1
Does anyone have any idea what is going on. Please help.
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regards
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load_sample.sql:
CREATE TABLE regions
( region_id NUMBER
CONSTRAINT region_id_nn NOT NULL
, region_name VARCHAR2(25)
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX reg_id_pk
ON regions (region_id);
ALTER TABLE regions
ADD ( CONSTRAINT reg_id_pk
PRIMARY KEY (region_id)
) ;

Hi,
So, go to shell ,position yourself in the path where load_sample.sql is, login to the XE as the user with whom you need to run load_sample.sql , and execute
+@load_sample.sql.+
Sorry to hijack this thread but I am having exactly the same problem in Ubuntu, it seems as if IE is the only browser that allows you to do this, but installing that in Ubuntu looks like a whole other world of pain I do not really want to get involved in at the moment.
I like the sound of just shortcutting the sql upload through the shell but I'm a beginner and I do not understand your comment well enough to implement it myself.
Could you please explain these in more granular layman's terms for someone who is unfamiliar with Linux syntax?
By 'Shell' do you mean the Terminal or the SQL Command Line? What exactly should I be typing in there to execute the sql?
I have saved the SQL file on my desktop (jon@jon-pc, it's a virtual Ubuntu machine on a Windows Vista host).
Thanks in advance
Jon

Cannot run SQL script on Oracle Database 10g Express Edition

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v_file_name VARCHAR2(2000);
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-- download the BLOB
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end download_my_file;
GRANT EXECUTE ON download_my_file TO apex_PUBLIC_user;
GRANT EXECUTE ON download_my_file TO public;
I tried display the image by using <img src="#OWNER#.download_my_file?p_hotel_id=1" height=60 width=40 /img>
But the image don't display...
if I type http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex/HOTEL.download_my_file?p_hotel_id=1 to display the picture , the error " Forbidden,The requested operation is not allowed" prompt.
Am I miss out anything? Anyone can help?
Thanks
Vincent

Hi,
I use a slightly difference code to display images: [http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=267:11]
It is possible that your GRANT command needs to be for PUBLIC instead of public - some things are case-sensitive.
Also, have you checked in SQL Workshop, Object Browser, Procedures to see if your procedure is valid?
Andy

How to use parameters in oracle SQL script????

Right now I am writing a SQL script to create a schema and build the objects of this schema....
I use a .net winform program to run sqlplus to parse this sql script ...
The problem is that the schema name and the tablespace's location and the sys password must be input by the user, so my SQL script should use these runtime input parameters instead of const parameters....
So, how to use parameter in SQL script ...........
Are there some example scripts in oracle home directory for me to refer to????

Hi,
UNISTD wrote:
thanks .....
what's the difference between variable , define, accept in sqlplus ???VARIABLE declares (but does not assign a value to) a bind variable. Unlike substitution variables, bind variables are passed to the back end to be compiled, and they can only be values in certain data types. You can not use a bind vaiable in place of an identifier, so to do something like
CREATE USER &1 ...a bind variable won't work.
"DEFINE x = y" sets the substitution variable &x to have the value y. There is no user interaction (unless x or y happen to contain undefined substtiution variables).
"DEFINE x" shiows the value of the substitution variable &x, or, if it is undefined, raises a SQL*Plus error. I use this feature below.
ACCEPT sets a substitution variable with user interaction.
And if the user miss some parameters in “sqlplus /nolog ssss.sql par1 par2 par5 par6”, how to use default value of the miss parameters??Don't you need a @ befiore the script name, e.g.
sqlplus /nolog @ssss.sql par1 par2 par5 par6Sorry, I don't know of any good way to use default values.
The foloowing works, but, as you can see, it's ugly.
"DEFINE 1" display a message like
DEFINE 1            = "par1" (CHAR)if &1 is defined; otherwise,it will display a SQL*Plus error message like
SP2-035: symbol 1 is UNDEFINEDNotice that the former contains an '=' sign, but the latter does not.
The best way I know to use default values is to run the DEFINE command, save the output to a filee, read the file, and see if it's an error message or not.
So you can use a script like this:
--     This is DEFINE_DEFAULT.SQL
SPOOL     got_define_txt.sql
DEFINE     &dd_old
SPOOL     OFF
COLUMN     dd_new_col     NEW_VALUE     &dd_new
WITH     got_define_txt     AS
     SELECT q'[
          @got_define_txt
]'               AS define_txt
     FROM    dual
SELECT     CASE
         WHEN define_txt LIKE '%=%'
         THEN REGEXP_REPLACE ( define_txt
                           , '.+"
([^"]*)
                     , '\1'
         ELSE '&dd_default'
     END        AS dd_new_col
FROM     got_define_txt
{code}
and start your real script, ssss.sql, something like this:
{code}
DEFINE          dd_new     = sv1
DEFINE          dd_old     = 1
DEFINE          dd_default     = FOO
@DEFINE_DEFAULT
DEFINE          dd_new     = sv2
DEFINE          dd_old     = 2
DEFINE          dd_default     = "Testing spaces in value"
@DEFINE_DEFAULT
{code}
when this finishes running, the substitution variable &sv1 will either have the value you passed in &1 or, if you didn't pass anything, the default value you specified, that is FOO.
Likewise, &sw2 will have the value you passed, or, if you didn't pass anything, the 23-character string 'Testing spaces in value'.
Here's how it works:
Define_default.sql puts the output of the "DEFINE x" command into a column, define_txt, in a query. That query displays either the existing value of the substitution variable indicated by &dd_old or, if it is undefined, the default value you want to use, which is stored in the substitution variable &dd_default. The substitution variable named in &dd_new is always set to something, but that something may be its existing value.
Notice that the paramerters to define_default.sql must be passed as global varibales.
Why didn't I just use arguments, so that we could simply say:
{code}
@DEFINE_DEFAULT sv1 1 FOO
{code}
? Because that would set the substitution variables &1, &2 and &3, which are miost likely the very ones in which you're interested.
I repeat: there must be a better way, but I'm sorry, I don't know what it is.
I usually don't do the method above. Instead, I always pass the required number of parameters, but I pass dummy or plce-holder values.
For example, if I wanted to call ssss.sql, but use defulat vlaues for &1 and &3, then I would say something like:
{code}
@ssss ? par2 ?
{code}
and, inside ssss.sql, test to see if the values are the place holder '?', and, if so, replace them with some real default value. The use has to remember what the special place holder-value is, but does not need to know anything more, and only ssss.sql itself needs to change if the default values change.

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