I found a query like select cast (:v as customtabletype) from dual.
Not able to understand what is the meaning of above line, written as dynamic query.
:<variablename>, in your case ":v", is what is known as a bind variable.
Essentially, this is a placeholder which is replaced with another value as the SQL statement is executed.
For more in-depth reading it is probably worth looking for bind variables in the Oracle documentation, as there is a lot of information available on why they're used and their benefits.
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I am trying to implement a use-case in Mule4 where a tour needs to be assigned to a user if it has not already been assigned.
I was hoping that I could implement it using Mule db:insert component and using INSERT WHERE NOT EXISTS SQL script as below.
INSERT INTO TL_MAPPING_TOUR(TOURNO,TLID,SYSTEM) select :tourno,:tlid,:system from DUAL
where not exists(select * from TL_MAPPING_TOUR where (TOURNO=:tourno and TLID=:tlid and SYSTEM=:system))
However, this is resulting in Mule Exception
Message : ORA-01722: invalid number
Error type : DB:BAD_SQL_SYNTAX
TL_MAPPING_TOUR table has an id column (Primary Key), but that is auto-generated by a sequence.
The same script, modified for running directly in SQL developer, as shown below, is working fine.
INSERT into TL_MAPPING_TOUR(TOURNO,TLID,SYSTEM)
select 'CLLO001474','123456789','AS400'
from DUAL
where not exists(select * from TL_MAPPING_TOUR where (TOURNO='CLLO001474' and TLID='123456789' and SYSTEM='AS400'));
Clearly Mule db:insert component doesn't like the syntax, but it's not very clear to me what is wrong here. I can't find any INSERT WHERE NOT EXISTS example implementation for the Mule4 Database component either.
stackoverflow page https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54910330/insert-record-into-sql-server-when-it-does-not-already-exist-using-mule directs to page not found.
Any idea what is wrong here and how to implement this in Mule4 without using another Mule4 db:select component before db:insert?
I don't know "mule4", but this:
Message : ORA-01722: invalid number
doesn't mean that syntax is wrong (as you already tested it - the same statement works OK in another tool).
Cause: You executed a SQL statement that tried to convert a string to a number, but it was unsuccessful.
Resolution:
The option(s) to resolve this Oracle error are:
Option #1: Only numeric fields or character fields that contain numeric values can be used in arithmetic operations. Make sure that all expressions evaluate to numbers.
Option #2: If you are adding or subtracting from dates, make sure that you added/substracted a numeric value from the date.
In other words, it seems that one of columns is declared as NUMBER, while you passed something that is a string. Oracle performed implicit conversion when you tested the statement in SQL Developer, but it seems that mule4 didn't and hence the error.
The most obvious cause (based on what you posted) is putting '123456789' into TLID as other values are obviously strings. Therefore, pass 123456789 (a number, no single quotes around it) and see what happens. Should work.
SQL Developer is too forgiving. It will convert string to numbers and vise versa automatically when it can. And it can a lot.
Mulesoft DB connector tries the same but it is not as succefule as native tools. Pretty often it fails to convert, especially on dates but this is not your case.
In short - do not trust too much data sense of Mulesoft. If it works - great! Otherwise try to eliminate any intelligence from it and do all conversions in the query and better from the string. Usually number works fine but if doesn't - use to_number function to mark properly that this is the number.
More about this is here https://simpleflatservice.com/mule4/AvoidCoversionsOrMakeThemNative.html
I already used the search here (and other forums as well) but haven't found an answer exacty to what I'm trying to do.
I know that it can easily be done in some other way, and this is just a small sandbox-framework I'm coding for a University course... in a real environment I'd just take Spring, Hibernate etc.
So what I did was coding myself a small generic Data Access Layer with POJOs, working with generic methods to retrieve, check or insert data to the database (Oracle). Most of this is done through PreparedStatements.
This is working as long as I don't have joins... is it possible to put in a Column as parameter?
Example:
Table A has Attribute X + others
Table B has Attribute Y + others
PreparedStatement with query SELECT * FROM A,B WHERE "A"."X" = ?
And then fill in "B"."Y" as the parameter...
The database doesn't throw me an error or exception, but the ResultSet returned after executing the statement is empty. Is it just not possible to do, or am I just missing some escaping?
I'm using PreparedStatement.setString(int index, String value) to fill in the parameter... in lack of ideas which other setX method I could use...
Again, in a real project I'd never code that myself, but rather use something like Spring or Hibernate and not re-invent the wheel, but I see it as an interesting exercise to code such a generic small data access layer myself.
No, JDBC does not allow this. Only column values can be set. If you want to make dynamic changes to the sql statement you will have to do it before you create the PreparedStatement.
I'm looking for difference between ax query and select (or while select)
In this example i don't see what's i can not do with statement select : the example of ax query in msdn
I think I misunderstood the syntax of ax query ranges :'(
A (while) select is a 'one use' statement, ie, you put it inline in your code and it is used only there.
A query can be setup to require parameters and can be used multiple times throughout your class or saved into the AOT for use in any class.
Generally I only use select statements for simple queries where its not worth the effort to create a query, for anything more complex I use queries.
I need to be able to run a query such as
SELECT * FROM atable WHERE MyFunc(afield) = "some text"
I've written MyFunc in a VB module but the query results in "Undefined function 'MyFunc' in expression." when executed from .NET
From what I've read so far, functions in Access VB modules aren't available in .NET due to security concerns. There isn't much information on the subject but this avenue seems like a daed end.
The other possibility is through the CREATE PROCEDURE statement which also has precious little documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb177892%28v=office.12%29.aspx
The following code does work and creates a query in Access:
CREATE PROCEDURE test AS SELECT * FROM atable
However I need more than just a simple select statement - I need several lines of VB code.
While experimenting with the CREATE PROCEDURE statement, I executed the following code:
CREATE PROCEDURE test AS
Which produced the error "Invalid SQL statement; expected 'DELETE', 'INSERT', 'PROCEDURE', 'SELECT', or 'UPDATE'."
This seems to indicate that there's a SQL 'PROCEDURE' statement, so then I tried
CREATE PROCEDURE TEST AS PROCEDURE
Which resulted in "Syntax error in PROCEDURE clause."
I can't find any information on the SQL 'PROCEDURE' statement - maybe I'm just reading the error message incorrectly and there's no such beast. I've spent some time experimenting with the statement but I can't get any further.
In response to the suggestions to add a field to store the value, I'll expand on my requirements:
I have two scenarios where I need this functionality.
In the first scenario, I needed to enable the user to search on the soundex of a field and since there's no soundex SQL function in Access I added a field to store the soundex value for every field in every table where the user wants to be able to search for a record that "soundes like" an entered value. I update the soundex value whenever the parent field value changes. It's a fair bit of overhead but I considered it necessary in this instance.
For the second scenario, I want to normalize the spacing of a space-concatenation of field values and optionally strip out user-defined characters. I can come very close to acheiving the desired value with a combination of TRIM and REPLACE functions. The value would only differ if three or more spaces appeared between words in the value of one of the fields (an unlikely scenario). It's hard to justify the overhead of an extra field on every field in every table where this functionality is needed. Unless I get specific feedback from users about the issue of extra spaces, I'll stick with the TRIM & REPLACE value.
My application is database agnostic (or just not very religious... I support 7). I wrote a UDF for each of the other 6 databases that does the space normalization and character stripping much more efficiently than the built-in database functions. It really annoys me that I can write the UDF in Access as a VB macro and use that macro within Access but I can't use it from .NET.
I do need to be able to index on the value, so pulling the entire column(s) into .NET and then performing my calculation won't work.
I think you are running into the ceiling of what Access can do (and trying to go beyond). Access really doesn't have the power to do really complex TSQL statements like you are attempting. However, there are a couple ways to accomplish what you are looking for.
First, if the results of MyFunc don't change often, you could create a function in a module that loops through each record in atable and runs your MyFunc against it. You could either store that data in the table itself (in a new column) or you could build an in-memory dataset that you use for whatever purposes you want.
The second way of doing this is to do the manipulation in .NET since it seems you have the ability to do so. Do the SELECT statement and pull out the data you want from Access (without trying to run MyFunc against it). Then run whatever logic you want against the data and either use it from there or put it back into the Access database.
Why don't you want to create an additional field in your atable, which is atable.afieldX = MyFunc(atable.afield)? All what you need - to run UPDATE command once.
You should try to write a SQL Server function MyFunc. This way you will be able to run the same query in SQLserver and in Access.
A few usefull links for you so you can get started:
MSDN article about user defined functions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164062.aspx
SQLServer user defined functions: http://www.sqlteam.com/article/intro-to-user-defined-functions-updated
SQLServer string functions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181984.aspx
What version of JET (now called Ace) are you using?
I mean, it should come as no surprise that if you going to use some Access VBA code, then you need the VBA library and a copy of MS Access loaded and running.
However, in Access 2010, we now have table triggers and store procedures. These store procedures do NOT require VBA and in fact run at the engine level. I have a table trigger and soundex routine here that shows how this works:
http://www.kallal.ca/searchw/WebSoundex.htm
The above means if Access, or VB.net, or even FoxPro via odbc modifies a row, the table trigger code will fire and run and save the soundex value in a column for you. And this feature also works if you use the new web publishing feature in access 2010. So, while the above article is written from the point of view of using Access Web services (available in office 365 and SharePoint), the above soundex table trigger will also work in a stand a alone Access and JET (ACE) only application.
I get the following error:
Cannot use empty object or column names. Use a single space if necessary.
Msg 1038, Level 15, State 3, Line 1
and the query command looks like:
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT
[].[cms_page].[pa_id], [].[cms_page].[pa_key],
[].[cms_page].[pa_title], [].[cms_page].[pa_keywords],
[].[cms_page].[pa_description], [].[cms_page].[pa_header],
[].[cms_page].[pa_created], [].[cms_page].[pa_modified],
[].[cms_page].[pa_language] FROM [cms_page]
WHERE
[cms_page].[pa_key] = #pa_key0
ORDER BY
[pa_id] ASC;
Strange indeed. Why does this happen? I'm using SubSonic 2.1.
Connectionstring:
<add name="OCDB" connectionString="Network Library=DBMSSOCN;Data Source=127.0.0.1,1433;Initial Catalog=test_db;User ID=test;Password=testpwd"/>
Edit: Well the solution was just to simply generate and rebuild the Data Access Layer and I was good to go.
You seem to be using a 3 part name with part of it empty, i.e. '[].'
It looks as though the query text is being constructed with an empty table schema.
Those empty [] square brackets should contain something like "dbo" to make the query syntactically valid. I don't know enough about SubSonic to give you a code sample though.
I'm not familiar with SubSonic, but have you tried a simpler query to test if you have your syntax correct? Does this query even work in SQL Server (Management Studio / Query Analyzer)?
Just looking at this from the perspective of SQL Server, you are using way too many brackets. If I was writing that query in SQL Server, it would look more like what I wrote below. I'm not sure about the variable #pa_key0, is this query part of a stored procedure or does SunSonic replace this variable when the query is ran?
SELECT
pa_id,
pa_key,
pa_title,
pa_keywords,
pa_description,
pa_header,
pa_created,
pa_modified,
pa_language
FROM
cms_page
WHERE
pa_key = #pa_key0
ORDER BY
pa_id ASC;
I think you need to set the schema for Subsonic to use. This thread seems to have some information:
Subsonic - How to use SQL Schema / Owner name as part of the namespace?