Pl-sql composite datatype-record problem!!

Question

Hello
I am using hr schema tables and I intend to display first_name,last_name and hire date of President.
When I am doing join I am facing errors
following is my code
/* Formatted on 2009/11/23 15:19 (Formatter Plus v4.8.8) */
DECLARE
e1 hr.employees%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT *
INTO e1
FROM hr.employees, hr.jobs
WHERE hr.employees.job_id = hr.jobs.job_id
AND hr.jobs.job_title = 'President';
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (e1.first_name);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (e1.last_name);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (e1.hire_date);
END;
and following are the errors
ORA-06550: line 7, column 6:
PL/SQL: ORA-00947: not enough values
ORA-06550: line 5, column 4:
PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
Please help
Thank You

Answer 1

Hello,
Instead of using
SELECT *you need to select the right columns that HR.EMPLOYEES consist of if you want to use the rowtype or declare 3 variables.
And always use proper aliases.
Another 'dirty' way, without any declarations at all:
hoek&XE> begin
  2    for e1 in ( select e.*
  3                from   hr.employees e
  4                ,      hr.jobs j
  5                where  e.job_id = j.job_id
  6                and    j.job_title = 'President'
  7              )
  8    loop
  9      dbms_output.put_line (e1.first_name);
10      dbms_output.put_line (e1.last_name);
11      dbms_output.put_line (e1.hire_date);
12    end loop; 
13  end;
14  /
Steven
King
17-06-1987 00:00:00