Hi All, I have the following function which calculates and returns a figure. What I am trying to do is to put an 'IF' statement in the function to say if the returning value is > 28 then update a table in the database. I still want the returning figure to be calculated but for some reason I am getting the following error:
"report error: ORA-14551: cannot perform a DML operation inside a query " /*This function calculates a value and if the acknowledgment takes longer than 28 days the vendor gets 2 penalty points and a acknowledgement score of 0*/ FUNCTION car_acknowledged_score (p_vendor_id IN NUMBER ,p_month IN VARCHAR2 ,p_year IN VARCHAR2) RETURN NUMBER IS v_acknowledged_result NUMBER; v_acknowledged_score NUMBER; BEGIN SELECT xxmel_apex_vendor_rating_pkg.car_acknowledged_result (p_vendor_id, p_month, p_year) INTO v_acknowledged_result FROM dual; IF v_acknowledged_result <= 4 THEN v_acknowledged_score := 6; ELSIF v_acknowledged_result BETWEEN 4 AND 7 THEN v_acknowledged_score := 4; ELSIF v_acknowledged_result BETWEEN 7 AND 10 THEN v_acknowledged_score := 2; ELSIF v_acknowledged_result BETWEEN 10 AND 28 THEN v_acknowledged_score := 0; ELSIF v_acknowledged_result > 28 THEN v_acknowledged_score := 0; --2 points deducted for being greater than 28 UPDATE xxmel_apex_vrd vrd SET vrd.PENATLY_POINTS = (NVL(vrd.PENATLY_POINTS,0) + 2) WHERE vrd.DATE_PERIOD_MONTH = p_month AND vrd.DATE_PERIOD_YEAR = p_year AND vrd.SUPPLIER_ID = p_vendor_id; COMMIT; END IF; RETURN ROUND(v_acknowledged_score,1); END car_acknowledged_score; Any help would be great, thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. To post to this group, send email to Oracle-PLSQL@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oracle-plsql-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---