PL/SQL if then else statements not running - plsql

I have written following code in oracle pl/sql
create or replace procedure sorting_criteria(criteria in varchar)
as
begin
if(criteria='lowest price')
then
declare
p_name product.p_name%type;
cursor ptr is select p_name from product order by amount ASC;
begin
open ptr;
loop
fetch ptr into p_name;
exit when ptr%notfound;
dbms_output.put_line(p_name);
end loop;
close ptr;
end;
else if(criteria='highest price')
then
declare
p_name product.p_name%type;
cursor ptr is select p_name from product order by amount DESC;
begin
open ptr;
loop
fetch ptr into p_name;
exit when ptr%notfound;
dbms_output.put_line(p_name);
end loop;
close ptr;
end;
else
dbms_output.put_line('Enter valid criteria!');
end if;
end;
/
But it is giving following error: Error at line 35: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol ";" when expecting one of the following: Please help

The ELSE-IF statement in PL/SQL has to be written as ELSIF. Otherwise, you should close the second IF with an other END IF; statement.
You can solve the issue by changing the ELSE IF at line 17 to an ELSIF

The answer by #GregorioPalamà correctly addresses your issues. But you can drastically reduce the workload by changing your thinking away from "If...then...else" to the "set of" and letting SQL do the work. In this case the only difference is sorting either ascending or descending on amount. The same effect can be achieved by sorting ascending on amount or minus amount; and SQL can make that decision. So you can reduce the procedure to validating the parameter and a single cursor for loop:
create or replace procedure sorting_criteria(criteria in varchar2)
as
cursor ptr(c_sort_criteria varchar2) is
select p_name
from product
order by case when c_sort_criteria = 'lowest price'
then amount
else -amount
end ;
begin
if criteria in ('lowest price', 'highest price')
then
for rec in ptr(criteria)
loop
dbms_output.put_line('Product: ' || rec.p_name );
end loop;
else
dbms_output.put_line('Enter valid criteria!');
end if;
end sorting_criteria;
/
See demo here. For demonstration purposed I added the amount to the dbms_output.
A couple notes:
While it is not incorrect using p_... as a column name, it is also
not a good idea. A very common convention (perhaps almost a
standard) to use p_... to indicate parameters. This easily leads to
confusion; confusion amongst developers is a bad thing.
IMHO it is a bug to name a local variable the same as a table
column name. While the compiler has scoping rules which one to use
it again leads to confusion. The statement "where table.name = name"
is always true, except when at least one of them is null, which possible could lead to updating/deleting every row in your table. In this
case p_name is both a column and a local variable.

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PL/SQL Query for column and use it in the function call

I am trying this but sure I am missing a lot
declare
my_id table.ISR_ID%type;
begin
select NVL(MAX(table.ISR_ID)+1,1) into isr_id
from table;
select my_pkg.getFunction(InputToFunction=> isr_id); -- from ?
end;
If you declared MY_ID variable, you should have selected into it, not into ISR_ID (which is never declared).
Also, you should return function's result into something (probably another variable?). I've declared it as FUN_RES - see the comment within the PL/SQL anonymous block.
Saying that you are missing a lot doesn't help much; you should specify which errors you get. Anyway: try such a code, say whether it works or not and - if not - say why not (possible errors, etc.).
declare
my_id table.ISR_ID%type;
fun_res number; --> function result should be returned into this variable.
-- I don't know what it returns, so I set it to be a NUMBER.
-- Change it, if necessary.
begin
select NVL(MAX(table.ISR_ID) + 1, 1)
into my_id
from table;
fun_res := my_pkg.getFunction(my_id);
end;
[EDIT]
If you have to select function's value for every ISR_ID in a table, then you don't need PL/SQL but
select isr_id,
my_pkg.getfunction(isr_id) fun_res
from table;
If you want PL/SQL, then do it in a loop, for example:
begin
for cur_r in (select isr_id from table) loop
dbms_output.put_line(cur_r.isr_id ||', result = ' || my_pkg.getfunction(cur_r.isr_id));
end loop;
end;
/

PL/SQL procedure, cursor, PLS- 00103 ERROR

please, what is bad in this procedure. Mistake is PLS-00103 in 8,9 row
create or replace PROCEDURE test_one(l_f_name VARCHAR2,l_l_name VARCHAR2)
IS
CURSOR c1(f_name VARCHAR2,l_name VARCHAR2) IS
SELECT lastname,firstname
FROM CUSTOMER;
v_complex c1%ROWTYPE;
f_name = l_f_name;
l_name = l_l_name;
BEGIN
open c1(f_name,l_name);
fetch c1 into v_complex;
dbms_output.put_line(v_complex.lastname|| ' ' ||v_complex.firstname);
exit when c1%notfound;
close c1;
end;
Assignment operator in PL/SQL is :=. Additionally type is missing in the local variable declaration (thanks to #Nitish). So valid code is:
f_name VARCHAR2(50) := l_f_name;
l_name VARCHAR2(50) := l_l_name;
Explicit cursors like this one are to be avoided in PLSQL.
It should be:
FOR v_complex IN c1(l_f_name, l_l_name) LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(v_complex.lastname|| ' ' ||v_complex.firstname);
END LOOP;
In which case you don't need to declare v_complex at all, or f_name, or l_name. Also, the cursor does not appear to actually use these variables. What are you trying to do?
This implicit cursor also avoids the need for explicit OPEN and CLOSE statements, you'll never get cursor leaks this way.
As for the actual problem, if the initialization is fixed, then your DBMS_OUTPUT should be after the %NOTFOUND check.

Execute immediate in netezza stored procedure is not inserting value to a table

When I am running this Netezza stored procedure, I am getting an error
attribute 'SOME_VALUE' not found
As per requirement I have to get value from one table (TABLE_A) and insert into another table (TABLE_B).
This is the procedure:
create or replace procedure my_proc()
returns boolean
execute as owner
language NZPLSQL
as
BEGIN_PROC
declare rec RECORD ;
BEGIN
for rec in SELECT * from TABLE_A loop
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
'INSERT INTO TABLE_B(COLUMN_B)
values( '|| rec.COLUMN_A_OFTABLE_A || ')';
END LOOP;
END;
END_PROC;
execute my_proc()
Here below, I am able to insert a string. But I need to insert different value depending on other table as I mentioned above.
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'INSERT INTO TABLE_B(COLUMN_B) values( ''Y'');';
When building a string that you are going run EXECUTE IMMEDIATE against, you have be careful to have everything quoted properly. In your case it's thinking that it needs to treat SOME_VALUE as an attribute/column, and it can't any column with that name.
Wrap your column reference in quote_literal() and it will interpret the contents of your column and quote-escape it properly for you.
create or replace procedure my_proc()
returns boolean
execute as owner
language NZPLSQL
as
BEGIN_PROC
declare rec RECORD ;
BEGIN
for rec in SELECT * from TABLE_A loop
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
'INSERT INTO TABLE_B(COLUMN_B)
values( '|| quote_literal(rec.COLUMN_A_OFTABLE_A) || ')';
END LOOP;
END;
END_PROC;
You can find some more information in the documentation here.
Note: I am assuming that you have some more complicated logic to implement in this stored procedure, because looping over row by row will be much, much slower that insert..select. Often by an order of magnitude.

Can anyone help whey my execption section is not working,

My whole intention to catch exception,WRONG parameter is NOT CATCHING exception.
Here is the code:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE list_emp (p_emp_id IN employees.employee_id%TYPE,
p_dept_id IN employees.department_id%TYPE)
IS
CURSOR c1 IS
SELECT *
FROM EMPLOYEES
WHERE EMPLOYEE_ID=p_emp_id
AND DEPARTMENT_ID=p_dept_id;
emp_rec c1%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
OPEN c1;
LOOP
FETCH c1 INTO emp_rec;
EXIT WHEN c1%NOTFOUND;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(emp_rec.employee_id||' '||emp_rec.first_name||' '||emp_rec.last_name);
END LOOP;
CLOSE c1;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('No Record Found ');
WHEN OTHERS THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('No Record Found ');
END;
When the cursor is opened and fetched with the wrong parameter that does not match any row from the corresponding table, the following line
EXIT WHEN c1%NOTFOUND;
cause the plsql procedure to terminate (because there were no rows found). Hence no exception is raised.
If you do want to display some sort of output you can do the following instead
IF c1%FOUND THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Record Found');
ELSE
dbms_output.put_line('Finished/Done');
EXIT;
END IF;
If you want to raise an error after looping through a cursor that returns no rows, then you're going to have to use a counter to work out how many rows have been processed, and then you can do something if no rows have been processed.
Something like:
create or replace procedure list_emp (p_emp_id in employees.employee_id%type,
p_dept_id in employees.department_id%type)
is
cursor c1 is
select employee_id,
first_name,
last_name
from employees
where employee_id = p_emp_id
and department_id = p_dept_id;
v_count number := 0;
begin
for emp_rec in c1
loop
v_count := v_count + 1;
dbms_output.put_line(emp_rec.employee_id||' '||emp_rec.first_name||' '||emp_rec.last_name);
end loop;
if v_count = 0 then
raise no_data_found;
end if;
exception
when no_data_found then
dbms_output.put_line('No Record Found.');
raise;
when others then
dbms_output.put_line('An error occurred: '||sqlerrm);
raise;
end;
/
A few notes:
I converted your cursor loop into a cursor-for-loop; you don't need to worry about declaring the record type and also Oracle handles the opening and closing of the cursor for you.
I added raise; to each of your exception handlers - in general, having when others then null (which is effectively what your original code was doing - no errors are raised to the calling code) is a bad idea. I added the raise to the no_data_found condition as that wasn't doing anything either; typically, if you have an exception condition, you want it to do something to let the calling code know there was a problem (not always, of course; sometimes you don't want the processing to stop if a particular error condition is met).
Your cursor was selecting all columns, but in your procedure, you were only using three of them. I've therefore amended the cursor so that it only pulls back those three columns.
Don't rely on dbms_output in your production code. Code that calls this procedure won't see anything populated in dbms_output, unless it explicitly looks for it - and that's not something I've ever seen in any production code, outside of Database tools (eg. SQL*Plus, Toad, etc). I've left this in your procedure as I've a feeling this is a learning exercise for you, but please don't think that this is in any way acceptable in production code.
You're passing p_emp_id in as a parameter - typically, that's the primary key of the employees table. If that's the case, then there's no need for the cursor for loop at all - you could do it by using select ... into ... instead, like so:
.
create or replace procedure list_emp (p_emp_id in employees.employee_id%type,
p_dept_id in employees.department_id%type)
is
v_emp_id employees.employee_id%type;
v_first_name employees.first_name%type;
v_last_name employees.last_name%type;
begin
select employee_id,
first_name,
last_name
into v_emp_id,
v_first_name,
v_last_name
from employees
where employee_id = p_emp_id
and department_id = p_dept_id;
dbms_output.put_line(emp_rec.employee_id||' '||emp_rec.first_name||' '||emp_rec.last_name);
exception
when no_data_found then
dbms_output.put_line('No Record Found.');
raise;
when others then
dbms_output.put_line('An error occurred: '||sqlerrm);
raise;
end;
/
Alternatively, just pass back a ref cursor:
create or replace procedure list_emp (p_emp_id in employees.employee_id%type,
p_dept_id in employees.department_id%type,
p_ref_cur out sys_refcursor)
is
begin
open p_ref_cur for select employee_id,
first_name,
last_name
from employees
where employee_id = p_emp_id
and department_id = p_dept_id;
-- No need for an exception handler here since you're not storing the error details anyway.
-- By not having an error handler, any error will automatically be raised up to the calling code
-- and it will have the correct error stack trace info (e.g. the line number the error occurred,
-- rather than the line the error was reraised from
end;
/
And to run the ref cursor in SQL*Plus (or as a script in Toad/SQL Developer/etc), you do the following:
-- create a variable outside of PL/SQL to hold the ref cursor pointer (this is a SQL*Plus command):
variable rc refcursor;
-- populate our ref cursor variable with the pointer. Note how we pass it in as a bind variable
begin
list_emp(p_emp_id => 1234,
p_dept_id => 10,
p_ref_cur => :rc);
end;
/
-- finally, print the contents of the ref cursor.
print rc;

Oracle PL/SQL - ORA-01403 “No data found” when using “SELECT INTO”

I have a pl sql code that execute three queries sequentially to determine a match level and do some logic
The issue is - when first query has no results (completely valid scenario) I get ORA-01403 No data found.
I understand that I need to incorporate [ Exception clause when NO_DATA_FOUND ]- but how to add it and continue to the next query?
PL/SQL Code
SELECT A into PARAM A FROM SAMPLE WHERE SOME CONDITION;
-- GOT ORA-01403 No data found HERE
MATCH_LEVEL =1;
if A is null then
do some logic;
end if
SELECT A INTO PARAM_B FROM SAMPLE WHERE SOME OTHER CONDITION
MATCH_LEVEL =2
if A is null then
do some logic 2;
end if
SELECT A INTO PARAM_B FROM SAMPLE WHERE SOME OTHER CONDITION
MATCH_LEVEL =3
if A is null then
do some logic 3;
end if
END PL/SQL Code
Declare
--your declarations
begin
SELECT A into PARAM A FROM SAMPLE WHERE SOME CONDITION;
-- GOT ORA-01403 No data found HERE
Begin
MATCH_LEVEL =1;
if A is null then
do some logic;
end if;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
dbms_output.put_line ('Error...');
END;
--- and son on for other blocks
end;
Just surround your SELECT INTO with begin-end;
begin
-- your faulty statement here
Exception
When NO_DATA_FOUND Then
-- Do what you want or nothing
WHEN TOO_MANY_ROWS THEN
-- what if you get more then one row? and need specific handler for this
When OTHERS Then
-- do something here or nothing (optional - may happen if you have more than your SELECT INTO between 'begin' and 'Exception')
end;
This is like try block of PL/Sql
With this technique you can log the reason your statement failed.
For a SELECT ... INTO ... statement, the PL/SQL engine assume there will be one, and only one row returned by your query. If there is no row, or more than one, an exception is raised.
FWIW, you can handle such cases without resorting on exception handling by using aggregate functions. That way, there will always be only one row in the result set.
Assuming A can't be NULL in your rows:
SELECT MAX(A) into PARAM A FROM SAMPLE WHERE SOME CONDITION;
-- A would be NULL if there was *no* row. Otherwise, it is *the* value for *the* row
MATCH_LEVEL =1;
if A is null then
do some logic;
end if
If the NULL value is a possible case, just add an extra COUNT(*) column:
SELECT MAX(A), COUNT(*) into A, HAS_FOUND_ROW FROM SAMPLE WHERE SOME CONDITION;
if HAS_FOUND_ROW > 0 then
...
end if;
Oracle will not allow you to open an implicit cursor (i.e. a select statement in the body of a code block) that returns no rows. You have two options here (3 really, counting #Sylvain's answer, but that is an unusual approach): use an explicit cursor or handle the error.
Explicit Cursor
An explicit cursor is one found in the DECLARE section it must be opened and fetched manually (or in a FOR loop). This has the added advantage that, if you parameterize the query properly, you can write it once and use it multiple times.
DECLARE
a sample.a%type;
MATCH_LEVEL number;
cursor cur_params (some_column_value number) is
SELECT A FROM SAMPLE WHERE some_column = some_column_value;
BEGIN
MATCH_LEVEL := 1;
open cur_params (match_level);
fetch cur_params into a;
close cur_params;
if A is null then
null; --some logic goes here
end if;
MATCH_LEVEL := 2;
open cur_params (match_level);
fetch cur_params into a;
close cur_params;
if A is null then
null; --some logic goes here
end if;
end;
Handle the error
If you choose to handle the error, you'll need to create a BEGIN...END block around the code that is going to throw the error. When disregarding an error, it's crucial that you ensure that you are only disregarding the specific error you want avoid, when generated from the specific statement you expect it from. If you simply add the EXCEPTION section to your existing BEGIN...END block, for instance, you couldn't know which statement generated it, or even if it was really the error you expected.
DECLARE
a sample.a%type;
MATCH_LEVEL number;
BEGIN
MATCH_LEVEL := 1;
BEGIN
SELECT A into A FROM SAMPLE WHERE some_column = MATCH_LEVEL;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
null; --Do nothing
END;
if A is null then
null; --some logic goes here
end if;
MATCH_LEVEL := 2;
BEGIN
SELECT A into A FROM SAMPLE WHERE some_column = MATCH_LEVEL;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
null; --Do nothing
END;
if A is null then
null; --some logic goes here
end if;
end;
While I'd discourage it, you can catch any other errors in the same exception blocks. However, by definition, those errors would be unexpected, so it would be a poor practice to discard them (you'll never know they even happened!). Generally speaking, if you use a WHEN OTHERS clause in your exception handling, that clause should always conclude with RAISE;, so that the error gets passed up to the next level and is not lost.

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