?Table_name as a procedure parameter

Question

Hi, does anyone know how to accept table and column names as arguements. I created a view from user_tab_columns so I can see the table (parameter) in the procedure but I can't update or insert because Oracle can't see the table.
The code looks something like this so far!
CURSOR MYCURSOR IS
SELECT p_column_name, p_table_name| |'_REC' -- primary key
FROM my_view
WHERE table_name = p_table_name
AND column_name = p_column_name;
FOR record in cursor LOOP
pl/sql code to change all records
(Here's the problem)
UPDATE p_table_name set p_column_name = v_new_column
WHERE p_table_name| |'_REC' = record.p_table_name| |'_REC';
ERROR p_table_name must be declared!
Any help?
Thanks
Dave

Answer 1

You need to give explicit rights on the tables, that is not through roles. The table names will simply not show up in the select statement unless you have been granted direct rights on them. So your problem could be that you have rights on the tables through a role, but what you need is to log in as the owner and i.e.
grant select, insert, update on emp to developer
etc.
If it's not this I'm lost.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by David Wilton ([email protected]):
Hi, does anyone know how to accept table and column names as arguements. I created a view from user_tab_columns so I can see the table (parameter) in the procedure but I can't update or insert because Oracle can't see the table.
The code looks something like this so far!
CURSOR MYCURSOR IS
SELECT p_column_name, p_table_name| |'_REC' -- primary key
FROM my_view
WHERE table_name = p_table_name
AND column_name = p_column_name;
FOR record in cursor LOOP
pl/sql code to change all records
(Here's the problem)
UPDATE p_table_name set p_column_name = v_new_column
WHERE p_table_name| |'_REC' = record.p_table_name| |'_REC';
ERROR p_table_name must be declared!
Any help?
Thanks
Dave<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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