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I have the following Function and Stored Procedure (simplified for this post). The error I am getting is in the SELECT, WHERE clause of the UPDATE command. My function is returning a sys_refcursor and I am trying to reference column names but keep getting the error
ORA-00904: "PUBLISHEDDOCVERSIONID": invalid identifier
What am I doing wrong?
Function
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION &HKDB_Schema_Name..QueryKnowdeDocVersion(aKGID int)
RETURN sys_refcursor
IS
aCur sys_refcursor;
BEGIN
OPEN aCur FOR
SELECT pkd.KnowdeID as "PublishedKnowdeID", pkd.DocumentID as "PublishedDocID", pkd.VersionID as "PublishedDocVersionID"
FROM KnowdeDocument pkd
WHERE pkd.KGID = aKGID;
RETURN aCur;
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UPDATE KnowdeDocument
SET DocumentID = (SELECT PublishedDocID FROM (SELECT QueryKnowdeDocVersion(aKGID, aPublishedKGID, aTextVersionID) FROM DUAL)
                  WHERE PublishedKnowdeID = KnowdeDocument.KnowdeID
                  AND PublishedDocID = KnowdeDocument.DocumentID
                  AND ((PublishedDocVersionID is NULL and KnowdeDocument.VersionID is NULL) OR (PublishedDocVersionID is not NULL AND
                           PublishedDocVersionID = KnowdeDocument.VersionID)))Regards,
Toby

Hi redeye,
Your select is from:
(select queryknowdedocversion(akgid
                              ,apublishedkgid
                              ,atextversionid)
                     from dual)This has no publisheddocversionid. Unfortunately I cannot figure out what you are trying to do with that ref_cursor.
Edit:
Or perhaps publisheddocversionid is a column in KnowdeDocument? Could this be case sensitive as well? (Bad idea to use quotations when naming things)
Regards
Peter
Edited by: Peter on Aug 24, 2009 3:39 AM

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i have written the following stored procedure, but i want this to return itemid to the environment. Please help as i am absolutely new to oracle.
create or replace procedure "SP_ITEMS"
(vitem IN VARCHAR2,
vqty IN NUMBER,
vrate IN NUMBER)
is
begin
INSERT INTO ITEMS (item,qty,rate)
VALUES (vitem,vqty,vrate);
end;
Thanks
With regards
Manish Sawjiani

If you want a column to be automatically populated with a sequence, then you need to create a sequence, and create a trigger to populate the column with the sequence. You can use the returning clause in a select statement to return the value of the inserted sequence. You can do this with just sql or you can put it in a procedure. I have demonstrated both below. This is a general sql and pl/sql problem, not something specific to the Express Edition, so please post future such questions in the sql and pl/sql discussion group instead.
SCOTT@10gXE> CREATE TABLE items
2    (itemid NUMBER,
3      item   VARCHAR2 (50),
4      qty    NUMBER (10, 3),
5      rate   NUMBER (10, 3))
6 /
Table created.
SCOTT@10gXE> CREATE SEQUENCE item_sequence
2 /
Sequence created.
SCOTT@10gXE> CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER items_bir
2    BEFORE INSERT ON items
3    FOR EACH ROW
4 BEGIN
5    SELECT item_sequence.NEXTVAL
6    INTO   :NEW.itemid
7    FROM   DUAL;
8 END items_bir;
9 /
Trigger created.
SCOTT@10gXE> SHOW ERRORS
No errors.
SCOTT@10gXE> VARIABLE g_itemid NUMBER
SCOTT@10gXE> INSERT INTO items (item, qty, rate)
2 VALUES ('item1', 2, 3)
3 RETURNING itemid INTO :g_itemid
4 /
1 row created.
SCOTT@10gXE> PRINT g_itemid
G_ITEMID
         1
SCOTT@10gXE> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sp_items
2    (p_item      IN VARCHAR2,
3      p_qty      IN NUMBER,
4      p_rate      IN NUMBER,
5      p_itemid OUT NUMBER)
6 AS
7 BEGIN
8    INSERT INTO ITEMS (item, qty, rate)
9    VALUES (p_item, p_qty, p_rate)
10    RETURNING itemid INTO p_itemid;
11 END sp_items;
12 /
Procedure created.
SCOTT@10gXE> SHOW ERRORS
No errors.
SCOTT@10gXE> EXECUTE sp_items ('item2', 3, 4, :g_itemid)
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SCOTT@10gXE> PRINT g_itemid
G_ITEMID
         2
SCOTT@10gXE> SELECT * FROM items
2 /
    ITEMID ITEM                                                      QTY       RATE
         1 item1                                                       2          3
         2 item2                                                       3          4
2 rows selected.
SCOTT@10gXE>

How to return a VARRAY datatype in a stored procedure

I have declared a type using
create type list1 as VARRAY(1000) of number(5);
I want to return a list of values from a stored procedure. I created a stored procedure using
create procedure getlist(mylist OUT list1) is
begin
end;
The type and procedure creation was successful. But when I call this stored procedure from a PL/SQL module I get the following error.
ORA-06531: Reference to uninitialized collection
The PL/SQl module is
declare
s1 list1(1,2);
begin
getlist(s1);
end;
I want the procedure to return around 1000 values. Any solutions.
Mohan
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MOHAN [email protected]:
I have declared a type using
create type list1 as VARRAY(1000) of number(5);
I want to return a list of values from a stored procedure. I created a stored procedure using
create procedure getlist(mylist OUT list1) is
begin
end;
The type and procedure creation was successful. But when I call this stored procedure from a PL/SQL module I get the following error.
ORA-06531: Reference to uninitialized collection
The PL/SQl module is
declare
s1 list1(1,2);
begin
getlist(s1);
end;
I want the procedure to return around 1000 values. Any solutions.
Mohan<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I am also having the same problem ..plzz help me someone
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