Partition-by in Pro*C

Question

I have this query that ran well in SQL Plus.
Select
ship_nmbr,
seq_nmbr,
ship_date
From
Select
ship_nmbr,
seq_nmbr,
ship_date,
Max(ship_date) Over
(Partition By ship_nmbr)
max_date
From
shipments
Where
ship_date = max_date;
I'm using Oracle 8.1.7.2.0
Enterprise Edition.
It ran fine if I run if in SQL PLUS, but not in Pro*C.
I got an error and it doesn't like it (I tried changing the upper/lower case as well):
Syntax error at line 33105, column 43, file load_scroll.pc:
Error at line 33105, column 43 in file load_scroll.pc
max(REQUEST_DATE) over (partition by SHIPID)
..........................................1
PCC-S-02201, Encountered the symbol "(" when expecting one of the following:
, into, from,
Error at line 0, column 0 in file load_scroll.pc
PCC-F-02102, Fatal error while doing C preprocessing
make: *** [load_scroll.c] Error 1
Any idea? Thanks!!!

Answer 1

To fix your problem create a view
create view shipments_dates as Select
ship_nmbr,seq_nmbr,ship_date,Max(ship_date) Over(Partition By ship_nmbr) max_date From shipments
Change your query to
Select ship_nmbr,seq_nmbr,ship_date From
shipments_dates Where
ship_date = max_date
Oracle 8.1.7 only supported partition by in SQL not pl/sql and I assume Proc C, supported in pl/sql in 9i