Set define off

Question

Hi, Everyone,
I am using oracle 11g version on windows server 2003 R2.
i am writing a procedure in a pacakage. My procedure is as follows:
PROCEDURE PROC_SUBDEPT_USER_LKP
IS
v_command_1 VARCHAR2(30000);
v_command_2 VARCHAR2(30000);
v_command_3 VARCHAR2(30000);
v_command VARCHAR2(30000);
BEGIN
FOR k IN
(SELECT * from SUBDEPT_LKP
LOOP
V_COMMAND_1 := ' SELECT ';
V_COMMAND_2 := ' , CUSTOMER_NO, ROWNUM NR FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT CUSTOMER_NO
FROM BBL_TRY_NEW A, PMM B
WHERE A.PR_CODE = B.PR_CODE
AND B.SUBDEPT_CODE = ';
V_COMMAND_3 := ' AND B.SUBDEPT_DESC = ';
V_COMMAND := ' INSERT INTO SUBDEPT_USER_LKP '||chr(10)||V_COMMAND_1||K.SUBDEPT_TN_ID||V_COMMAND_2||K.SUBDEPT_CODE||V_COMMAND_3||''''||K.SUBDEPT_DESC||''''||')';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE V_COMMAND;
COMMIT;
--DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(V_COMMAND);
END LOOP;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('POPULATED SUBDEPT_USER_LKP');
END;
for each insert statement in the loop i need to "set define off" as i have '&' symbol in my data for k.subdept_desc.
Could anybody please help?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

i dont think that u need to set define off, as & will not cause any issue if it is in a variable
check my test code
SQL> select * from test_tab;
A
a&b
SQL> declare
  2  a varchar2(200);
  3  begin
  4  select a into a from test_tab where rownum = 1;
  5  execute immediate 'insert into test_tab values (''' || a || ''')';
  6  commit;
  7  end;
  8  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>