Hi: Not sure if this is the right place to post this question. My dba has asked to execute a alter statement before the select statement in a perl script. So I need to run the following. Supposedly the alter statement, helps run the select sql run faster.
alter session set db_file_multiblock_read_count = 128; SELECT ED.utime, ED.info, ED.agent_id FROM EVENT_DATA ED WHERE ED.utime between $period order by ED.utime; where $period is a string such as "190 and 300". I tried the following my $sql = qq{ BEGIN alter session set db_file_multiblock_read_count = 128; SELECT ED.utime, ED.info, ED.agent_id FROM EVENT_DATA ED WHERE ED.utime between $period order by ED.utime; END; }; my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql); $sth->execute(); I get the following error ==================== DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-06550: line 3, column 5: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "ALTER" when expecting one of the following: begin case declare exit for goto if loop mod null pragma raise return select update while with <an identifier> <a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> << close current delete fetch lock insert open rollback savepoint set sql execute commit forall merge <a single-quoted SQL string> pipe The symbol "update was inserted before "ALTER" to continue. (DBD ERROR: error possibly near <*> indicator at char 14 in ' BEGIN <*>alter session set db_file_multiblock_read_count = 128; SELECT ED.utime, ED.info, ED.agent_id FROM EVENT_DATA ED WHERE ED.utime between 1164650400 and 1164653940 order by ED.utime; END; ') [for Statement " BEGIN alter session set db_file_multiblock_read_count = 128; SELECT ED.utime, ED.info, ED.agent_id FROM EVENT_DATA ED WHERE ED.utime between 1164650400 and 1164653940 order by ED.utime; END; "] at /actuate/AcServer/reports_scripts/report_functions.pl line 48. ========================= Could someone help. Thanks Ravi ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>