> "Hagedorn, Linda" wrote:
> 
> If someone has a few minutes to read through this, I'd be most
> appreciative.  I could use a second set of eyes looking this over.
> 
> This procedure is designed to maintain a table/sequence map, executed
> after an import and increment any sequences which have a lower nextval
> that the max value in the column it's supposed to be matching.  Often
> the sequences are out-of-sync after an import (even full=y and
> direct=y) and we have to manually adjust them.  This is an effort to
> automate the process.
> 
> These are the displays and error from the procedure, and the code
> follows.  The problem is in the execute immediate which is doing DDL.
> It's Oracle 8.1.7 on Solaris so DDL in execute immediate alter is
> supposed to work.  The execute immediate insert does work.
> 
> Any suggestions or comments are welcome.  Thanks, Linda
> 

Linda,

   DDL is forbidden in PL/SQL - except in some EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
statement (or when using the older DBMS_SQL package) but as a SINGLE
statement. When you are executing your statement you are trying to
execute an anonymous block - which happens to contain a DDL statement,
which is forbidden in PL/SQL (sorry, looping). I have never tried it but
there is no reason why it shouldn't work, an EXECUTE IMMEDIATE within
the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE is probably what you shoud try, i. e. something
like :

   my_statement := 'begin' || chr(10) || 'execute immediate ''' ||
'fancy DDL here'
                           || '''; end;';
   execute immediate :my_statement;

 Another solution would be to simplify the logic, but I am in Europe and
currently a bit tired to suggest something reasonably intelligent.

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Stephane Faroult
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