Order by clause in cursor problem

Question

Hello,
I'm unable to compile package body when i'm using order by clause in cursor subquery in stored procedure.
Sample code:
CREATE PACKAGE Announces AS
TYPE tRefCur IS REF CURSOR;
PROCEDURE TopAnnounces(
iiCount IN NUMBER,
osAnnounces OUT tRefCur,
oiRetVal OUT NUMBER
END Announces;
CREATE PACKAGE BODY Announces AS
PROCEDURE TopAnnounces(
iiCount IN NUMBER,
osAnnounces OUT NUMBER,
oiRetVal OUT NUMBER
AS
BEGIN
OPEN osAnnounces FOR
SELECT Id, Name, AnnCount FROM
SELECT Id, Name, COUNT(CategoryId) AS AnnCount FROM tblAnnounces
GROUP BY Id, Name
-- bellow is the line, where the code crash
ORDER BY AnnCount DESC
WHERE ROWNUM < iiCount + 1;
oiRetVal := 0;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
oiRetVal := -255;
END TopAnnounces;
END Announces;
If I compile the code above I will get this error:
PLS-00103: Encoutered the symbol "ORDER" when expecting on of the following:
After I remark the problematic line, the compilation is successful (but not the result :).
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for advice
Vojtech Novacek
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Answer 1

Sorry you can not use order by clause into one temporal table created by subquery.
Put the order by clause offside of subquery.
Atte.
CC.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Vojtech Novacek:
Hello,
I'm unable to compile package body when i'm using order by clause in cursor subquery in stored procedure.
Sample code:
CREATE PACKAGE Announces AS
TYPE tRefCur IS REF CURSOR;
PROCEDURE TopAnnounces(
iiCount IN NUMBER,
osAnnounces OUT tRefCur,
oiRetVal OUT NUMBER
END Announces;
CREATE PACKAGE BODY Announces AS
PROCEDURE TopAnnounces(
iiCount IN NUMBER,
osAnnounces OUT NUMBER,
oiRetVal OUT NUMBER
AS
BEGIN
OPEN osAnnounces FOR
SELECT Id, Name, AnnCount FROM
SELECT Id, Name, COUNT(CategoryId) AS AnnCount FROM tblAnnounces
GROUP BY Id, Name
-- bellow is the line, where the code crash
ORDER BY AnnCount DESC
WHERE ROWNUM < iiCount + 1;
oiRetVal := 0;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
oiRetVal := -255;
END TopAnnounces;
END Announces;
If I compile the code above I will get this error:
PLS-00103: Encoutered the symbol "ORDER" when expecting on of the following:
After I remark the problematic line, the compilation is successful (but not the result :).
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for advice
Vojtech Novacek<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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