Using &variables in a SQL Script scheduled job within OEM

Question

Hi...I've been searching through the forum looking for any examples of setting up a job within OEM, using the SQL Script job type, where I can basically use a WHERE clause that says 'where column_name = &variable_name' and somehow provide that at run time, as if I were in a SQL*Plus session and using a PROMPT and ACCEPT command. I thought there might be a way to emulate that situation by placing the value I'd like to qualify on within some placeholder in the Parameter section of the job. We have a few users who have limited access to OEM and need to run queries on GRANTS and ROLES for various users etc. I realize there are other ways to do this, however I'm wondering if OEM has a capability like this. Any info is appreciated! Tks!

Answer 1

Looks like you're missing the schema name and you'll want to use QUOTENAME to add delimiters to the objects
e.g. 
DECLARE @DATABASE AS VARCHAR(50)
DECLARE @SchemaName as SYSNAME;
DECLARE @TABLE AS VARCHAR(50)
DECLARE @QUERY AS VARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT @DATABASE = '602'
SELECT @SchemaName = 'dbo' --change as appropriate
SELECT @TABLE = 'Items'
SET @QUERY = 'SELECT TOP 10 * FROM ' + QUOTENAME(@DATABASE)+'.' + QUOTENAME(@SchemaName) + '.'+QUOTENAME(@TABLE)
print @query
EXEC( @QUERY)