Check SQL Reference for "exception_clause" when creating Primary Key. Could help to do what you need just using SQL (no PL/SQL).
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Mercadante, Thomas F Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Johann, how about the following. what this does is, using the inner begin/end block, catches when an insert would fail because of the PK failure and ignores the error. This is very quick and dirty - it will work fine if you are not working with a huge amount of data. declare cursor c1 is select col1, col2 from some_table; begin for c1_rec in c1 loop begin insert into new_table(col1, col2) values (c1_rec.col1, c1_rec.col2); exception when too_many_rows then null; end; end loop; end; / If you are talking about lots and lots of data, you could easily query the table you are inserting into, testing for the existence of the value you are attempting to insert. If you find it, skip the insert. Like this: declare rec_count number; cursor c1 is select col1, col2 from some_table; begin for c1_rec in c1 loop begin select count(*) into rec_count from new_table where col1 = c1_rec.col1; -- this assumes that col1 is the pk! if rec_count = 0 then insert into new_table(col1, col2) values (c1_rec.col1, c1_rec.col2); end if; exception when too_many_rows then null; end; end loop; end; / Good Luck! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 3:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Looking for an a sample cursor routine to load a PK enabled table to eliminate any dupes from the load table. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Johan Muller INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mercadante, Thomas F INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Igor Neyman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).