URGENT: I want to pass a variable to a stored procedure at run time
Post Author: aruplabs
CA Forum: Data Connectivity and SQL
I work for a health care provider and I have reports that pull PHI (Protected Health Information) about patients that needs to be logged according to federal HIPAA regulations. One of the pieces of information that needs to be logged is the username of the person who ran the report. Since these reports will be run from our Crystal Enterprise server I can get this from the CurrentCEUserName variable but I am looking for a way to pass this value to a stored procedure that will not only return the records for the report, but also log the disclosure in our PHI disclosure tracking table. I know you can pass a parameter to a stored procedure but I dont know how, or if it is even possible, to pass a run time variable. This is an urgent problem that I need to find a solution for. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Here it is. Right now, when i press te "Go" it runs for the specific time i've set and when its done the variable "Run" is set true. When i call this VI from another VI it waits for the loop to be finished before it will read the variable.
Regards
Viktor
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DoFunkyInsert( :1, :2, :3 );
end;
{code}
3 bind variables are expected. You can now in the client build an array for each of these variables, containing a 100 values each (total of a 100 rows to insert). Do a single execute of the cursor, and tell Oracle that the bind is actually a 100 element array.
The complete array ships to Oracle - Oracle opens a loop and execute the cursor for each element in the array.
This is called bulk binding.
An alternative approach is to define the bind variable as a collection (a non-scalar value). And then code the PL/SQL procedure to open a loop and iterate through the collection/array, inserting a row per iteration.
The binding itself is more complex as your code know needs to understand Oracle object types and be able to define an array/collection that is a valid Oracle non-scalar data type.
The +Oracle Call Interface+ (OCI) is quite flexible in this regard. However, as you work via an abstraction layer (e.g. ADO, OleDB, ODBC, etc) your code is subject to whatever functionality this abstraction layer makes available to your code. And this is seldom includes all the power, functionality and flexibility of the (more complex) OCI itself.
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