Timeout Script that returns to specified scene

I am designing a kiosk for a company that will be displayed
in their lobby... It basically goes over each of the business units
of the company and has a seperate sscene for each of theme... what
will inevitably happen though is... a user will come and use this
kiosk and leave it without returning to the home screen...
is there a way I can put a script on the first frame of each
scene that will tell the player if it unused for a certain amount
of time it will go back to the main scence... sort of like a
screensaver...
Thanks for any help.

I am using the following script at the begining of my scenes
in a kiosk I designed to make the player go back tot he main screen
if it is not being used:
setinterval(restart, 60);
function restart()
// restart the flash
gotoAndPlay("Home", 1);
myButton.onRelease = function()
// do something
// clear the interval
clearInterval(1);
although I cannot get this to work... doesn't seem to do
anything... anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any tips...

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get summary of item 2 of every event of calendar "Untitled"
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The posted event log indicates some inconsistent behaviour of iCal in referencing item 2 of every event. I.e., it could access it first and failed to do so after a new event is created. Scent of bug here. Or possibly inserting ugly small delay after event creation might let the script delete the newly created event...
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--CODE1
-- # not recommended
repeat with theEvent of (events of calendar "Untitled")
-- omitted
end repeat
--END OF CODE1
Instead, you'd better get the list first and use it, such as :
--CODE2
-- # recommended
repeat with theEvent of (get events of calendar "Untitled")
-- omitted
end repeat
--END OF CODE2
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(* not tested *)
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SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Wed Mar 24 16:47:17 2004
(c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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JServer Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production
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timeouts do seem to work, they go to and stop where they're
supposed to but then they seem to rerun themselves so that several
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Tim

If you don't want an EEM policy, then don't use any of the EEM constructs. Instead, all you need is this:
set output [exec "snmp get v2c 192.168.1.100 public timeout 1 oid 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0"]puts $output

How can I modify this script to return only certain rows of my mySQL table?

Hi there,
I have a php script that accesses a mySQL database and it was generated out of the Flex Builder wizard automatically. The script works great and there are no problems with it. It allows me to perform CRUD on a table by calling it from my Flex app. and it retrieves all the data and puts it into a nice MXML format.
My question, currently when I call "findAll" to retrieve all the data in the table, well, it retrieves ALL the rows in the table. That's fine, but my table is starting to grow really large with thousands of rows.
I want to modify this script so that I can pass a variable into it from Flex so that it only retrieves the rows that match the "$subscriber_id" variable that I pass. In this way the results are not the entire table's data, only the rows that match 'subscriber_id'.
I know how to pass a variable from Flex into php and the code on the php side to pick it up would look like this:
$subscriberID = $_POST['subscriberID'];
Can anyone shed light as to the proper code modification in "findAll" which will take my $subscriberID variable and compare it to the 'subscriber_id' field and then only return those rows that match? I think it has something to do with lines 98 to 101.
Any help is appreciated.
<?php
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/2257safeDBconn.php");
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/functions.inc.php");
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/XmlSerializer.class.php");
* This is the main PHP file that process the HTTP parameters,
* performs the basic db operations (FIND, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE)
* and then serialize the response in an XML format.
* XmlSerializer uses a PEAR xml parser to generate an xml response.
* this takes a php array and generates an xml according to the following rules:
* - the root tag name is called "response"
* - if the current value is a hash, generate a tagname with the key value, recurse inside
* - if the current value is an array, generated tags with the default value "row"
* for example, we have the following array:
* $arr = array(
*      "data" => array(
*           array("id_pol" => 1, "name_pol" => "name 1"),
*           array("id_pol" => 2, "name_pol" => "name 2")
*      "metadata" => array(
*           "pageNum" => 1,
*           "totalRows" => 345
* we will get an xml of the following form
* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
* <response>
*   <data>
*     <row>
*       <id_pol>1</id_pol>
*       <name_pol>name 1</name_pol>
*     </row>
*     <row>
*       <id_pol>2</id_pol>
*       <name_pol>name 2</name_pol>
*     </row>
*   </data>
*   <metadata>
*     <totalRows>345</totalRows>
*     <pageNum>1</pageNum>
*   </metadata>
* </response>
* Please notice that the generated server side code does not have any
* specific authentication mechanism in place.
* The filter field. This is the only field that we will do filtering after.
$filter_field = "subscriber_id";
* we need to escape the value, so we need to know what it is
* possible values: text, long, int, double, date, defined
$filter_type = "text";
* constructs and executes a sql select query against the selected database
* can take the following parameters:
* $_REQUEST["orderField"] - the field by which we do the ordering. MUST appear inside $fields.
* $_REQUEST["orderValue"] - ASC or DESC. If neither, the default value is ASC
* $_REQUEST["filter"] - the filter value
* $_REQUEST["pageNum"] - the page index
* $_REQUEST["pageSize"] - the page size (number of rows to return)
* if neither pageNum and pageSize appear, we do a full select, no limit
* returns : an array of the form
* array (
*           data => array(
*                array('field1' => "value1", "field2" => "value2")
*           metadata => array(
*                "pageNum" => page_index,
*                "totalRows" => number_of_rows
function findAll() {
     global $conn, $filter_field, $filter_type;
      * the list of fields in the table. We need this to check that the sent value for the ordering is indeed correct.
     $fields = array('id','subscriber_id','lastName','firstName','birthdate','gender');
     $where = "";
     if (@$_REQUEST['filter'] != "") {
          $where = "WHERE " . $filter_field . " LIKE " . GetSQLValueStringForSelect(@$_REQUEST["filter"], $filter_type);
     $order = "";
     if (@$_REQUEST["orderField"] != "" && in_array(@$_REQUEST["orderField"], $fields)) {
          $order = "ORDER BY " . @$_REQUEST["orderField"] . " " . (in_array(@$_REQUEST["orderDirection"], array("ASC", "DESC")) ? @$_REQUEST["orderDirection"] : "ASC");
     //calculate the number of rows in this table
     $rscount = mysql_query("SELECT count(*) AS cnt FROM `modelName` $where");
     $row_rscount = mysql_fetch_assoc($rscount);
     $totalrows = (int) $row_rscount["cnt"];
     //get the page number, and the page size
     $pageNum = (int)@$_REQUEST["pageNum"];
     $pageSize = (int)@$_REQUEST["pageSize"];
     //calculate the start row for the limit clause
     $start = $pageNum * $pageSize;
     //construct the query, using the where and order condition
     $query_recordset = "SELECT id,subscriber_id,lastName,firstName,birthdate,gender FROM `modelName` $where $order";
     //if we use pagination, add the limit clause
     if ($pageNum >= 0 && $pageSize > 0) {
          $query_recordset = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_recordset, $start, $pageSize);
     $recordset = mysql_query($query_recordset, $conn);
     //if we have rows in the table, loop through them and fill the array
     $toret = array();
     while ($row_recordset = mysql_fetch_assoc($recordset)) {
          array_push($toret, $row_recordset);
     //create the standard response structure
     $toret = array(
          "data" => $toret,
          "metadata" => array (
               "totalRows" => $totalrows,
               "pageNum" => $pageNum
     return $toret;
* constructs and executes a sql count query against the selected database
* can take the following parameters:
* $_REQUEST["filter"] - the filter value
* returns : an array of the form
* array (
*           data => number_of_rows,
*           metadata => array()
function rowCount() {
     global $conn, $filter_field, $filter_type;
     $where = "";
     if (@$_REQUEST['filter'] != "") {
          $where = "WHERE " . $filter_field . " LIKE " . GetSQLValueStringForSelect(@$_REQUEST["filter"], $filter_type);
     //calculate the number of rows in this table
     $rscount = mysql_query("SELECT count(*) AS cnt FROM `modelName` $where");
     $row_rscount = mysql_fetch_assoc($rscount);
     $totalrows = (int) $row_rscount["cnt"];
     //create the standard response structure
     $toret = array(
          "data" => $totalrows,
          "metadata" => array()
     return $toret;

Hi there,
I have a php script that accesses a mySQL database and it was generated out of the Flex Builder wizard automatically. The script works great and there are no problems with it. It allows me to perform CRUD on a table by calling it from my Flex app. and it retrieves all the data and puts it into a nice MXML format.
My question, currently when I call "findAll" to retrieve all the data in the table, well, it retrieves ALL the rows in the table. That's fine, but my table is starting to grow really large with thousands of rows.
I want to modify this script so that I can pass a variable into it from Flex so that it only retrieves the rows that match the "$subscriber_id" variable that I pass. In this way the results are not the entire table's data, only the rows that match 'subscriber_id'.
I know how to pass a variable from Flex into php and the code on the php side to pick it up would look like this:
$subscriberID = $_POST['subscriberID'];
Can anyone shed light as to the proper code modification in "findAll" which will take my $subscriberID variable and compare it to the 'subscriber_id' field and then only return those rows that match? I think it has something to do with lines 98 to 101.
Any help is appreciated.
<?php
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/2257safeDBconn.php");
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/functions.inc.php");
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/XmlSerializer.class.php");
* This is the main PHP file that process the HTTP parameters,
* performs the basic db operations (FIND, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE)
* and then serialize the response in an XML format.
* XmlSerializer uses a PEAR xml parser to generate an xml response.
* this takes a php array and generates an xml according to the following rules:
* - the root tag name is called "response"
* - if the current value is a hash, generate a tagname with the key value, recurse inside
* - if the current value is an array, generated tags with the default value "row"
* for example, we have the following array:
* $arr = array(
*      "data" => array(
*           array("id_pol" => 1, "name_pol" => "name 1"),
*           array("id_pol" => 2, "name_pol" => "name 2")
*      "metadata" => array(
*           "pageNum" => 1,
*           "totalRows" => 345
* we will get an xml of the following form
* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
* <response>
*   <data>
*     <row>
*       <id_pol>1</id_pol>
*       <name_pol>name 1</name_pol>
*     </row>
*     <row>
*       <id_pol>2</id_pol>
*       <name_pol>name 2</name_pol>
*     </row>
*   </data>
*   <metadata>
*     <totalRows>345</totalRows>
*     <pageNum>1</pageNum>
*   </metadata>
* </response>
* Please notice that the generated server side code does not have any
* specific authentication mechanism in place.
* The filter field. This is the only field that we will do filtering after.
$filter_field = "subscriber_id";
* we need to escape the value, so we need to know what it is
* possible values: text, long, int, double, date, defined
$filter_type = "text";
* constructs and executes a sql select query against the selected database
* can take the following parameters:
* $_REQUEST["orderField"] - the field by which we do the ordering. MUST appear inside $fields.
* $_REQUEST["orderValue"] - ASC or DESC. If neither, the default value is ASC
* $_REQUEST["filter"] - the filter value
* $_REQUEST["pageNum"] - the page index
* $_REQUEST["pageSize"] - the page size (number of rows to return)
* if neither pageNum and pageSize appear, we do a full select, no limit
* returns : an array of the form
* array (
*           data => array(
*                array('field1' => "value1", "field2" => "value2")
*           metadata => array(
*                "pageNum" => page_index,
*                "totalRows" => number_of_rows
function findAll() {
     global $conn, $filter_field, $filter_type;
      * the list of fields in the table. We need this to check that the sent value for the ordering is indeed correct.
     $fields = array('id','subscriber_id','lastName','firstName','birthdate','gender');
     $where = "";
     if (@$_REQUEST['filter'] != "") {
          $where = "WHERE " . $filter_field . " LIKE " . GetSQLValueStringForSelect(@$_REQUEST["filter"], $filter_type);
     $order = "";
     if (@$_REQUEST["orderField"] != "" && in_array(@$_REQUEST["orderField"], $fields)) {
          $order = "ORDER BY " . @$_REQUEST["orderField"] . " " . (in_array(@$_REQUEST["orderDirection"], array("ASC", "DESC")) ? @$_REQUEST["orderDirection"] : "ASC");
     //calculate the number of rows in this table
     $rscount = mysql_query("SELECT count(*) AS cnt FROM `modelName` $where");
     $row_rscount = mysql_fetch_assoc($rscount);
     $totalrows = (int) $row_rscount["cnt"];
     //get the page number, and the page size
     $pageNum = (int)@$_REQUEST["pageNum"];
     $pageSize = (int)@$_REQUEST["pageSize"];
     //calculate the start row for the limit clause
     $start = $pageNum * $pageSize;
     //construct the query, using the where and order condition
     $query_recordset = "SELECT id,subscriber_id,lastName,firstName,birthdate,gender FROM `modelName` $where $order";
     //if we use pagination, add the limit clause
     if ($pageNum >= 0 && $pageSize > 0) {
          $query_recordset = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_recordset, $start, $pageSize);
     $recordset = mysql_query($query_recordset, $conn);
     //if we have rows in the table, loop through them and fill the array
     $toret = array();
     while ($row_recordset = mysql_fetch_assoc($recordset)) {
          array_push($toret, $row_recordset);
     //create the standard response structure
     $toret = array(
          "data" => $toret,
          "metadata" => array (
               "totalRows" => $totalrows,
               "pageNum" => $pageNum
     return $toret;
* constructs and executes a sql count query against the selected database
* can take the following parameters:
* $_REQUEST["filter"] - the filter value
* returns : an array of the form
* array (
*           data => number_of_rows,
*           metadata => array()
function rowCount() {
     global $conn, $filter_field, $filter_type;
     $where = "";
     if (@$_REQUEST['filter'] != "") {
          $where = "WHERE " . $filter_field . " LIKE " . GetSQLValueStringForSelect(@$_REQUEST["filter"], $filter_type);
     //calculate the number of rows in this table
     $rscount = mysql_query("SELECT count(*) AS cnt FROM `modelName` $where");
     $row_rscount = mysql_fetch_assoc($rscount);
     $totalrows = (int) $row_rscount["cnt"];
     //create the standard response structure
     $toret = array(
          "data" => $totalrows,
          "metadata" => array()
     return $toret;

A script that captures the coordinates of the mouse clicks and saves them into a file

Hello,
I'm trying to create a cartoon taking a movie (I've chosen blade runner) as base. I've got the real movie and I've exported all the pictures using VirtualDUB. Now I have a lot of images to modify. I would like to modify the actors faces with the faces generated by Facegen modeller. I'm thinking how to make the whole process automatic because I have a lot of images to manage. I've chosen to use Automate BPA,because it seems the best for this matter. I'm a newbie,so this is my first attempt using Adobe Photoshop and Automate BPA. I wrote a little script. It takes a face generated with Facegen modeller and tries to put it above the original actors faces. But it doesn't work very good and I'm not really satisfied,because the process is not fully automated. To save some time I need to write a script that captures the coordinates of the mouse when I click over the faces and that saves them into a file,so that Automate BPA can read these coordinates from that file and can put the face generated with Facegen Modeller above the original face. I think that Automate BPA is not good for this matter. I think that two coordinates are enough,X and Y. They can be the coordinates of the nose,because it is always in the middle of every face. It is relevant to knows how big should be the layer of the new face,too. This is the Automate BPA code that I wrote :
<AMVARIABLE NAME="nome_foto" TYPE="TEXT"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="estensione_foto" TYPE="TEXT"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMSET VARIABLENAME="nome_foto">br</AMSET>
<AMSET VARIABLENAME="estensione_foto">.jpeg</AMSET>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="numero_foto" TYPE="NUMBER"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="coord_x" TYPE="NUMBER"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="coord_y" TYPE="NUMBER"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMWINDOWMINIMIZE WINDOWTITLE="Aggiungere_layer - AutoMate BPA Agent
Task Builder" />
<AMWINDOWMINIMIZE WINDOWTITLE="AutoMate BPA Server Management Console
- localhost (Administrator)" AM_ONERROR="CONTINUE" />
<AMENDPROCESS PROCESS="E:\Programmi_\Adobe Photoshop
CS5\Photoshop.exe" AM_ONERROR="CONTINUE" />
<AMRUN FILE="%"E:\Programmi_\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Photoshop.exe"%" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="15" />
<AMSENDKEY>{CTRL}o</AMSENDKEY>
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="1" />
<AMINPUTBOX RESULTVARIABLE="numero_foto">Inserire numero FOTO di
partenza -1</AMINPUTBOX>
<AMINCREMENTVARIABLE RESULTVARIABLE="numero_foto" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="1" />
<AMMOUSEMOVEOBJECT WINDOWTITLE="Apri" OBJECTNAME="%nome_foto &
numero_foto & estensione_foto%" OBJECTCLASS="SysListView32"
OBJECTTYPE="ListItem" CHECKOBJECTNAME="YES" CHECKOBJECTCLASS="YES"
CHECKOBJECTTYPE="YES" />
<AMMOUSECLICK CLICK="double" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="10" />
<AMSENDKEY>{CTRL}+</AMSENDKEY>
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="20" />
<AMSENDKEY>l</AMSENDKEY>
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="429" MOVEY="281" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="659" MOVEY="281" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="659" MOVEY="546" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="429" MOVEY="546" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="429" MOVEY="281" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMSENDKEY>v</AMSENDKEY>
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK CLICK="hold_down" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="131" MOVEY="99" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="99" MOVEY="162" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK CLICK="release" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMINPUTBOX RESULTVARIABLE="coord_x">Inserire coordinata X</AMINPUTBOX>
<AMINPUTBOX RESULTVARIABLE="coord_y">Inserire coordinata Y</AMINPUTBOX>
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="200" MOVEY="200" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMMOUSECLICK CLICK="hold_down" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="%coord_x%" MOVEY="%coord_y%" RELATIVETO="position" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
and this is a short video to explain better what I want to do :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26687972@N03/5331705934/
In the last scene of the video you will see the script asking to input the X and the Y coordinates of the nose. This request is time consuming. For this reason I want to write a script that captures automatically the coordinates of the mouse clicks. The only thing to do should be click over the nose and the script should make the rest. As "c.pfaffenbichler" suggested here : http://forums.adobe.com/thread/775219, I could explore 3 ways :
1) use the Color Sampler Tool’s input with a conventional Photoshop Script.
2) use After Effects would provide a better solution.
3) Photoshop’s Animation Panel might also offer some easier way as it might be possible to load two movies (or one movie and one image) and animate the one with the rendered head in relation to the other.
Since I'm a totally newbie in graphic and animation,could you help me to explore these ways ? Thanks for your cooperation.

These are the coordinates of the contours of the face that you see on the picture. Can you explain to me how they are calculated ? The coordinates of the first colums are intuitive,but I'm not able to understand how are calculated the coordinates of the second one.
Thanks.
1 COL 2 COL (how are calculated these values ?)
307.5000 182.0000 m
312.5000 192.0000 l
321.5000 194.0000 l
330.5000 193.0000 l
335.0000 187.0000 l
337.0000 180.5000 l
340.0000 174.0000 l
338.5000 165.5000 l
336.0000 159.0000 l
331.5000 153.0000 l
324.5000 150.0000 l
317.0000 154.0000 l
312.5000 161.0000 l
309.0000 173.0000 l
307.5000 182.0000 l
Message was edited by: LaoMar

Help! Script that works in 8.1.7 does not work in 9.2.0

I have a generic hot backup script that runs well in our 8i environment where I source the username and password for SYS from a secured txt file. However I could not get the script to work in our recently installed 9.2.0 environment.
Below is an extract of the hot backup script:
# Set environment
. ${HOME}/BACKUP/${DBNAME}.env
CONNECT_STRING=`${HOME}/admin/Util/syspass.sh sys $DBNAME`
export CONNECT_STRING
#Define some commands and files
SQLPLUS="${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s ${CONNECT_STRING}"
TIME_STAMP=`date +"%d-%b-%Y"`
# Test for duplicate filenames
$SQLPLUS <<-EOF
var numfiles number;
BEGIN
SELECT count(*) into :numfiles
FROM dba_data_files a, dba_data_files b
WHERE a.file_name != b.file_name
AND SUBSTR(a.file_NAME, INSTR(a.file_name, '/', -1) + 1)
= SUBSTR(b.file_NAME, INSTR(b.file_name, '/', -1) + 1);
END;
exit :numfiles
EOF
FILE_ERROR=$?
echo "Number of duplicate files $FILE_ERROR"
if [ $FILE_ERROR -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Aborting, ... $FILE_ERROR duplicate filenames"
exit
fi
As per the extract above,
in our 8.1.7 environment,
(1) the command CONNECT_STRING=`${HOME}/admin/Util/syspass.sh sys $DBNAME`
will result in CONNECT_STRING=sys/xxxxxx@<sid>
(2) the command SQLPLUS="${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s ${CONNECT_STRING}"
will result in SQLPLUS=/usr/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/sqlplus -s sys/xxxxxx@<sid>
(3) and when issue $SQLPLUS <<-EOF
it connects fine and execute the procedure successfully.
in Oracle 9.2.0,
(1) the command CONNECT_STRING=`${HOME}/admin/Util/syspass.sh sys $DBNAME`
works fine with result same as in 8.1.7 - CONNECT_STRING=sys/xxxxxx@<sid>
(2) the command SQLPLUS="${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s ${CONNECT_STRING}"
works fine with result SQLPLUS=/usr/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/sqlplus -s sys/xxxxxx@<sid>
(3) However, when issue $SQLPLUS <<-EOF returns an error:
ERROR:
ORA-28009: connection to sys should be as sysdba or sysoper
How can I fix that??
Is it because of the username/password structure (sys/xxxxxx@<sid>)??
I would like to keep such username/password format if possible.
I have also tried to hard coded the username/password for variable SQLPLUS as:
SQLPLUS="/usr/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/sqlplus -S '/ as sysdba'"
But it still doesn't work when issue $SQLPLUS, it returns the following:
Usage: SQLPLUS [ [<option>] [<logon>] [<start>] ]
where <option> ::= -H | -V | [ [-L] [-M <o>] [-R <n>] [-S] ]
<logon> ::= <username>[<password>][@<connect_string>] | / | /NOLOG
<start> ::= @<URI>|<filename>[.<ext>] [<parameter> ...]
"-H" displays the SQL*Plus version banner and usage syntax
"-V" displays the SQL*Plus version banner
"-L" attempts log on just once
"-M <o>" uses HTML markup options <o>
"-R <n>" uses restricted mode <n>
"-S" uses silent mode
Any ideas as to how to have the script run in 9.2.0??
Your help is much appreciated.

Hi, I tried CJs suggestion; however it still doesnt work for me.
I tried assigning the command line to a variable, I tried to log in directly from the command line, and both dont work (see below). What did I do wrong??
$ SQLPLUS="/usr/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/sqlplus -S \"sys/xxxxxx@<sid> as sysdba\""
$ echo $SQLPLUS
/usr/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/sqlplus -S "sys/xxxxxx@<sid> as sysdba"
$ $SQLPLUS
Usage: SQLPLUS [ [<option>] [<logon>] [<start>] ]
where <option> ::= -H | -V | [ [-L] [-M <o>] [-R <n>] [-S] ]
<logon> ::= <username>[<password>][@<connect_string>] | / | /NOLOG
<start> ::= @<URI>|<filename>[.<ext>] [<parameter> ...]
"-H" displays the SQL*Plus version banner and usage syntax
"-V" displays the SQL*Plus version banner
"-L" attempts log on just once
"-M <o>" uses HTML markup options <o>
"-R <n>" uses restricted mode <n>
"-S" uses silent mode
$ sqlplus "sys/xxxxxx@<sid> as sysdba"
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Mar 24 08:53:05 2004
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

SOLVED: How can I use or call a function that returns %ROWTYPE?

Hi
edit: you can probably skip all this guff and go straight to the bottom...In the end this is probably just a question of how to use a function that returns a %rowtype. Thanks.
Currently reading Feuerstein's tome, 5th ed. I've downloaded and run the file genaa.sp, which is a code generator. Specifically, you feed it a table name and it generates code (package header and package body) that will create a cache of the specified table's contents.
So, I ran:
HR@XE> @"C:\Documents and Settings\Jason\My Documents\Work\SQL\OPP5.WEB.CODE\OPP5.WEB.CODE\genaa.sp"
749 /
Procedure created.
HR@XE> exec genaa('EMPLOYEES');which generated a nice bunch of code, viz:
create or replace package EMPLOYEES_cache is
    function onerow ( EMPLOYEE_ID_in IN HR.EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID%TYPE) return HR.EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE;
    function onerow_by_EMP_EMAIL_UK (EMAIL_in IN HR.EMPLOYEES.EMAIL%TYPE) return HR.EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE;
    procedure test;
end EMPLOYEES_cache;
create or replace package body EMPLOYEES_cache is
    TYPE EMPLOYEES_aat IS TABLE OF HR.EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
    EMP_EMP_ID_PK_aa EMPLOYEES_aat;
    TYPE EMP_EMAIL_UK_aat IS TABLE OF HR.EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID%TYPE INDEX BY HR.EMPLOYEES.EMAIL%TYPE;
    EMP_EMAIL_UK_aa EMP_EMAIL_UK_aat;
    function onerow ( EMPLOYEE_ID_in IN HR.EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID%TYPE)
        return HR.EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE is
        begin
            return EMP_EMP_ID_PK_aa (EMPLOYEE_ID_in);
        end;
    function onerow_by_EMP_EMAIL_UK (EMAIL_in IN HR.EMPLOYEES.EMAIL%TYPE)
        return HR.EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE is
        begin
            return EMP_EMP_ID_PK_aa (EMP_EMAIL_UK_aa (EMAIL_in));
        end;
    procedure load_arrays is
        begin
            FOR rec IN (SELECT * FROM HR.EMPLOYEES)
            LOOP
                EMP_EMP_ID_PK_aa(rec.EMPLOYEE_ID) := rec;
                EMP_EMAIL_UK_aa(rec.EMAIL) := rec.EMPLOYEE_ID;
            end loop;
        END load_arrays;
    procedure test is
        pky_rec HR.EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE;
        EMP_EMAIL_UK_aa_rec HR.EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE;
        begin
            for rec in (select * from HR.EMPLOYEES) loop
                pky_rec := onerow (rec.EMPLOYEE_ID);
                EMP_EMAIL_UK_aa_rec := onerow_by_EMP_EMAIL_UK (rec.EMAIL);
                if rec.EMPLOYEE_ID = EMP_EMAIL_UK_aa_rec.EMPLOYEE_ID then
                    dbms_output.put_line ('EMP_EMAIL_UK lookup OK');
                else
                    dbms_output.put_line ('EMP_EMAIL_UK lookup NOT OK');
                end if;
            end loop;
        end test;
    BEGIN
        load_arrays;
    end EMPLOYEES_cache;
/which I have run successfully:
HR@XE> @"C:\Documents and Settings\Jason\My Documents\Work\SQL\EMPLOYEES_CACHE.sql"
Package created.
Package body created.I am now trying to use the functionality within the package.
I have figured out that the section
    BEGIN
        load_arrays;
    end EMPLOYEES_cache;
/is the initialization section, and my understanding is that this is supposed to run when any of the package variables or functions are referenced. Is that correct?
With that in mind, I'm trying to call the onerow() function, but it's not working:
HR@XE> select onerow(100) from dual;
select onerow(100) from dual
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: "ONEROW": invalid identifier
HR@XE> select employees_cache.onerow(100) from dual;
select employees_cache.onerow(100) from dual
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06553: PLS-801: internal error [55018]
HR@XE> select table(employees_cache.onerow(100)) from dual;
select table(employees_cache.onerow(100)) from dual
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00936: missing expressionHe provides the code genaa.sp, and a very brief description of what it does, but doesn't tell us how to run the generated code!
Now, I have just done some googling, and it seems that what I am trying to do isn't possible. Apparently %ROWTYPE is PL/SQL, and not understood by SQL, so you can't call onerow() from sql. Correct?
So I try wrapping the call in an exec:
HR@XE> exec select employees_cache.onerow(100) from dual;
BEGIN select employees_cache.onerow(100) from dual; END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 30:
PLS-00382: expression is of wrong type
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PLS-00428: an INTO clause is expected in this SELECT statement
HR@XE> exec select table(employees_cache.onerow(100)) from dual;
BEGIN select table(employees_cache.onerow(100)) from dual; END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 14:
PL/SQL: ORA-00936: missing expression
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
HR@XE> exec employees_cache.onerow(100)
BEGIN employees_cache.onerow(100); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PLS-00221: 'ONEROW' is not a procedure or is undefined
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignoredNo joy.
Of course, now that I'm looking at it again, it seems that the way to go is indicated by the first error:
PLS-00428: an INTO clause is expected in this SELECT statement
So am I supposed to create a type of EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE in a PL/SQL procedure, and the idea of this code, is that the first call to onerow() runs the initialiation code, which populates the cache, and all subsequent calls to onerow() (whether by my session or any other) will use the cache?
I've had a stab at this, but still, no joy:
create or replace procedure testcache is
    emp employees%rowtype;
    begin
        select employees_cache.onerow(100) from dual into emp;
        dbms_output.put_line('Emp id: ' || emp.employee_id);
    end testcache;
show errors
HR@XE> @testcache.sql
Warning: Procedure created with compilation errors.
Errors for PROCEDURE TESTCACHE:
LINE/COL ERROR
4/9      PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
4/54     PL/SQL: ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
HR@XE>Have a feeling this should be really easy. Can anybody help?
Many thanks in advance.
Jason
Edited by: 942375 on 08-Feb-2013 11:45

>
Ha, figured it out
>
Hopefully you also figured out that the example is just that: a technical example of how to use certain Oracle functionality. Unfortunately it is also an example of what you should NOT do in an actual application.
That code isn't scaleable, uses expensive PGA memory, has no limit on the amount of memory that might be used and, contrary to your belief will result in EVERY SESSION HAVING ITS OWN CACHE of exactly the same data if the session even touches that package.
Mr. Feuerstein is an expert in SQL and PL/SQL and his books cover virtually all of the functionality available. He also does an excellent job of providing examples to illustrate how that functionality can be combined and used. But the bulk of those examples are intended solely to illustrate the 'technical' aspects of the technology. They do not necessarily reflect best practices and they often do not address performance or other issues that need to be considered when actually using those techniques in a particular application. The examples show WHAT can be done but not necessarily WHEN or even IF a given technique should be used.
It is up to the reader to learn the advantages and disadvantages of each technicalogical piece and determine when and how to use them.
>
Now, I have just done some googling, and it seems that what I am trying to do isn't possible. Apparently %ROWTYPE is PL/SQL, and not understood by SQL, so you can't call onerow() from sql. Correct?
>
That is correct. To be used by SQL you would need to create SQL types using the CREATE TYPE syntax. Currently that syntax does not support anything similar to %ROWTYPE.
>
So am I supposed to create a type of EMPLOYEES%ROWTYPE in a PL/SQL procedure, and the idea of this code, is that the first call to onerow() runs the initialiation code, which populates the cache, and all subsequent calls to onerow() (whether by my session or any other) will use the cache?
>
NO! That is a common misconception. Each session has its own set of package variables. Any session that touches that package will cause the entire EMPLOYEES table to be queried and stored in a new associative array specifically for that session.
That duplicates the cache for each session using the package. So while there might be some marginal benefit for a single session to cache data like that the benefit usually disappears if multiple sessions are involved.
The main use case that I am aware of where such caching has benefit is during ETL processing of staged data when the processing of each record is too complex to be done in SQL and the records need to be BULK loaded and the data manipulated in a loop. Then using an associative array as a lookup table to quickly get a small amount of data can be effective. And if the ETL procedure is being processed in parallel (meaning different sessions) then for a small lookup array the additional memory use is tolerable.
Mitigating against that is the fact that:
1. Such frequently used data that you might store in the array is likely to be cached by Oracle in the buffer cache anyway
2. Newer versions of Oracle now have more than one cache
3. The SQL query needed to get the data from the table will use a bind variable that eliminates repeated hard parsing.
4. The cursor and the buffer caches ARE SHARED by multiple sessions globally.
So the short story is that there would rarely be a use case where ARRAYs like that would be preferred over accessing the data from the table.

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