Ok, let's try this again.
The limitation that I mentioned below about Excel is not true.
We finally got the ColdFusion developer to look at this problem, after I
finally convinced everyone that this is not an Oracle or Excel issue. The
CF developer immediately knew the answer. Apparently, when you pass field
data between CF and Oracle there is a default limitation of 255 characters.
The CF developer raised this limitation to 1,000 for the field in question
in the .cfm code. And the application now works correctly.
Something to keep in mind when dealing with ColdFusion...
Tom, thanks for all the PL/SQL help. It sure looked like an Oracle error.
Oh well...
Thanks.
Chris
"May Oracle be with you...always"
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:13 PM
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Cc: Grabowy, Chris
Thanks to Tom M and everyone else that responded.
When the procedures are called from within Oracle with the same data then
there are no errors. This now appears to be an Excel problem. Apparently,
Excel has a limitation with inserting 255+ characters into a cell. So, yes,
the app was retrieving data from Oracle and feeding it into Excel. But
instead of getting an Excel error we were getting Oracle errors.
This will be confirmed when the programmer splits the data into small chunks
and feeds them into different cells.
Thanks.
Chris
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:51 PM
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Chris,
want to try something?
Create a local variable for the TITLE column (local to this procedure.
Select the data into the local variable, then reassign it to your OUT
variable and see if the same thing happens.
like::
l_study_title_out study.title%TYPE;
begin
select title into l_study_title_out from....;
study_title_out := l_study_title_out;
end;
see if you get the same error.
You can use DBMS_OUTPUT to depbug the steps if it helps.
I've seen stuff with selects and out variables that don't make sense
sometimes.....
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:57 PM
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Let's try that once more...
procedure get_study_info (study_id_in IN study.study_id%TYPE,
study_title_out OUT study.title%TYPE,
brief_title_out OUT study.brief_title%TYPE,
study_number_out OUT study.client_study_no%TYPE,
protocol_number_out OUT
study.sponsor_protocol_no%TYPE,
sponsor_out OUT company.company_name%TYPE,
cro_out OUT company.company_name%TYPE,
therapeutic_agent_out OUT
therapeutic_agent.therapeutic_agent%TYPE,
clinical_state_out OUT indication.indication%TYPE,
study_status_out OUT current_status.label%TYPE,
target_number_of_sites_out OUT
study.target_num_of_sites%TYPE,
target_number_of_subjects_out OUT
study.target_num_of_subjects%TYPE)
IS
BEGIN
select title, brief_title, client_study_no, sponsor_protocol_no,
sponsor_company.company_name sponsor_name,
cro_company.company_name cro_name, ta.therapeutic_agent,
i.indication indication,
cs.label current_study_status, nvl(target_num_of_sites, 0)
target_num_of_sites,
nvl(target_num_of_subjects, 0) target_num_of_subjects
into study_title_out, brief_title_out, study_number_out,
protocol_number_out,
sponsor_out, cro_out, therapeutic_agent_out, clinical_state_out,
study_status_out, target_number_of_sites_out,
target_number_of_subjects_out
from study s, company sponsor_company, company cro_company,
therapeutic_agent ta,
indication i, current_status cs
where s.sponsor=sponsor_company.company_id
and s.cro=cro_company.company_id (+)
and s.therapeutic_agent_id=ta.therapeutic_agent_id
and s.indication_id=i.indication_id
and current_study_status_id=cs.current_status_id
and s.study_id=study_id_in;
end get_study_info;
Hopefully, that will come out in a better format on the list...
BTW, per Tom's question the calling procedure also TYPE's the study title
to the STUDY.TITLE table/column.
Chris
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:10 PM
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Chris,
Need to see the whole procedure ...
Raj
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