Unable to handle the exception properly [duplicate] - plsql

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In the below code first insert statement is,
insert into customer_master select max(customerid)+1,customer_name from customer_master
where customer_name not in (select customername from customer_master);
Am getting null value insert error for this. Yes, that is right.
But it is stopping below statements of the block from executing.
insert into customer_account_mapping select customerid,upper(pcd(i)),upper(acd(i)),cost from customer_master where customername=customer_name and concat(upper(pcd(i)),upper(acd(i))) not in (select concat(upper(pcode),upper(acode)) from customer_account_mapping);
insert into user_permissions select distinct user_id,sales_person_name,sales_mgr_name,upper(pcd(i)),upper(acd(i)) from user_permissions where sales_person_name=sales_person and concat(upper(pcd(i)),upper(acd(i))) not in (select concat(upper(pcode),upper(acode)) from user_permissions) and rownum<2 ;
Complete code is given below.
create or replace
procedure dashboard_addtion
(customer_name varchar2,pcd parray,acd aarray,sales_person varchar2,cost number)
IS
begin
insert into customer_master select max(customerid)+1,customer_name from customer_master
where customer_name not in (select customername from customer_master);
for i in 1..acd.count loop
insert into customer_account_mapping select customerid,upper(pcd(i)),upper(acd(i)),cost from customer_master where customername=customer_name and concat(upper(pcd(i)),upper(acd(i))) not in (select concat(upper(pcode),upper(acode)) from customer_account_mapping);
insert into user_permissions select distinct user_id,sales_person_name,sales_mgr_name,upper(pcd(i)),upper(acd(i)) from user_permissions where sales_person_name=sales_person and concat(upper(pcd(i)),upper(acd(i))) not in (select concat(upper(pcode),upper(acode)) from user_permissions) and rownum<2 ;
commit;
end loop;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (SQLERRM);
end;

Am getting null value insert error for this. Yes, that is right.
But it is stopping below statements of the block from executing.
The exception caused process flow to go to the EXCEPTION handler section. That is the end of the program block. So processing stops after handling the exception. This is standard. So in fact, your have titled your question wrongly, because this is the proper way to handle exceptions. The whole point is to preserve the ACIDity of the transaction. Why would you want to continue processing if the first part of your program fails?
Although, having described this as the proper way I feel I must say that "handling" exceptions by simply using DBMS_OUTPUT is extremely bad practice. That won't work in production code because calling progarm won't know an exception occurred. Your procedure needs to log the error and then re-raise the exception. Anything else is just asking for trouble.

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PLSQL PROCEDURE. I AM NEW TO TO PLSQL

Create a procedure ADD_DEPT. This procedure will take 3 IN arguments DEPTNO,DNAME,LOC. Insert these values into the DEPT table. Handle the exception if the user tries to insert a duplicate row using User Defined Exception Handler.
First and foremost Stack Overflow is not a place, where we solve your homework. We help you through your problems. Which is by you showing us your current progress, issue/current output and desired outcome/desired output.
But I'll sympathize with you, knowing I was there once too.
CREATE PROCEDURE ADD_DEPT (
P_DEPTNO IN NUMBER,
P_DNAME IN VARCHAR2,
P_LOC IN VARCHAR2
) AS
BEGIN
INSERT INTO DEPT(DEPTNO, DNAME, LOC)
VALUES (P_DEPTNO, P_DNAME, P_LOC);
EXCEPTION WHEN dup_val_on_index THEN
-- Handle your code here
END;
If you want to go the easy route next time, you can simply do that with SQL Developer:
Browse your tables, right click, then click on Generate table API.
Then to handle the exception, right before the END; statement insert the following: EXCEPTION WHEN dup_val_on_index THEN --your code here

How to correctly make a procedure in Pl/SQL in which I create a TABLE and use a CURSOR

The assignment I am trying to do is
"Create a procedure that places the names of all presidents who were born in one specific
state, in a temporary table. Display the contents of this table."
The procedure complies but when I try to invoke it, it gives me:
00000 - "table or view does not exist"
Error(8,5): PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "CREATE" when expecting one of the following: begin function pragma procedure subtype type current cursor delete exists prior
I have been stuck for a while now. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
My code so far is:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE stateofpresident(p_state president.state_born%TYPE)
AS
CURSOR c_state IS
SELECT *
FROM president;
BEGIN
execute immediate 'CREATE TABLE presidentFromState;
(
president_name VARCHAR2
)';
FOR r_state IN c_state LOOP
IF(p_state = r_state.state_born) THEN
execute immediate 'INSERT INTO presidentFromState VALUES(r_state.pres_name)';
commit;
END IF;
END LOOP;
execute immediate 'DROP TABLE presidentFromState';
END stateofpresident;
/
SET SERVEROUT ON
BEGIN
stateofpresident('VIRGINIA');
END;
/
SELECT *
FROM presidentFromState;
The immediate cause of your error is the semi-colon (;) at "presidentFromState;" At run fhat terminates the statement and the SQL interpreter at that point does not know what is want, the create syntax is invalid. The statement compiles because at compile time it is a properly formatted string. That is why dynamic SQL should be avoid if at all possible. Your script also has an additional error. Your last select will fail as the table presidentFromState ws not only created but also dropped in the procedure. Finally, just an FYI, the entire FOR cursor and the cursor itself is entirely unnecessary, the entire operation can be completed is one statement: Look into the structure
Insert into table_name(columns)
Select columns ...
Since this obviously an assignment or tutorial I'll leave the exact for your research.

Mutating table trigger error for one type of insert statement

I'm getting mutating table error for statement insert into employee select 'xyz',200 from dual and scripts executes successfully for insert into employee values ('abc',100);.
Can somebody explain why the statement fails for one type of insert statement? Both scripts insert similar type of data into table
details of script:
--table creation
create table employee (name varchar2(30),salary number);
--trigger creation
create or replace trigger emp_trig
before insert on employee
for each row
begin
delete from employee where name=:new.name;
end;
/
--insert statement 1
insert into employee values ('abc',100);
--result : 1 row inserted
--insert statement 2
insert into employee select 'xyz',200 from dual
--result:
Error report -
ORA-04091: table NMS_CON.EMPLOYEE is mutating, trigger/function may not see it
ORA-06512: at "NMS_CON.EMP_TRIG", line 2
ORA-04088: error during execution of trigger 'NMS_CON.EMP_TRIG'
Inserting a single row will not lead to a mutating table error - how could it, since that row wasn't there before?
But insert-select potentially involves more than one row, so then you get the error.
Generally, you should not have non-query DML operations in your trigger. Too many possible side effects and undesirable consequences.
A better approach is to write a procedure that will do the insert for you, do not give insert privileges on the table directly, only to the package that owns the procedure. Then inside that procedure you can do a delete before your insert, or you can do a merge - or whatever.
All the logic is hidden inside the procedure and by restricting privs on the table, you ensure that the procedure must be called.
Hope that helps!

oracle execute immediate not executing

I am new to Oracle (11gr2) and I have the following script:
BEGIN
DECLARE
source varchar2(1);
BEGIN
dbms_output.enable;
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP VIEW SP_AD;';
SELECT SOURCE INTO source FROM map_switch WHERE ROWNUM = 1;
IF source = 'A'
THEN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE SP_AD_B;';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'RENAME TABLE SP_AD_A TO SP_AD;';
ELSE
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE SP_AD_A;';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'RENAME TABLE SP_AD_B TO SP_AD;';
END IF;
COMMIT WORK;
dbms_output.put_line('SP_AD table issue fixed');
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Exception, rolling back transaction, SP_AD not resolved.');
ROLLBACK WORK;
END;
END;
END;
/
Essentially, its determining which table to drop, then it drops the view and renames the other table.
If I run the statements individually, it works perfectly well, but in the script above, it returns procedure executed successfully but nothing was executed.
I'm suspecting that its rolling back for some odd reason, but I'm hesitating to execute it without the rollback in place (these tables have in excess of 300,000 records).
Can someone tell me what's wrong and also, is there something wrong with my exception block?
As pointed out by commenters, there are a few reasons why your code isn't working as expected.
Firstly, don't use semicolons inside the strings that you pass to EXECUTE IMMEDIATE, as doing that will give you an ORA-00911 'invalid character' error:
SQL> BEGIN
2 EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE SP_AD_B;';
3 END;
4 /
BEGIN
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00911: invalid character
ORA-06512: at line 2
After running this, you can then verify that the table still exists:
SQL> SELECT * FROM SP_AD_B;
no rows selected
(I don't have your table SP_AD_B, so I just created one named SP_AD_B with a single integer column in it. I didn't bother putting any data in it.)
If you remove the semicolon inside the string, not the one outside, it works:
SQL> BEGIN
2 EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE SP_AD_B';
3 END;
4 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> SELECT * FROM SP_AD_B;
SELECT * FROM SP_AD_B
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
Now that the table's gone, we get an error attempting to query it.
Hopefully, this should allow you to fix your script so that it works and drops the relevant tables.
But why weren't you getting any helpful information in your output message? Well, let's recreate the SP_AD_B table, and reintroduce the semicolon, and try dropping the table again, but with an EXCEPTION handler similar to yours:
SQL> BEGIN
2 EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE SP_AD_B;';
3 EXCEPTION
4 WHEN OTHERS THEN
5 dbms_output.put_line('Exception, rolling back transaction, SP_AD not resolved.');
6 END;
7 /
Exception, rolling back transaction, SP_AD not resolved.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
In this case, we got an error message telling us something went wrong, so the table wasn't dropped. But what went wrong? There are thousands of errors that Oracle can report, and it can be difficult to guess what the problem is without knowing the error message.
There are a number of approaches you can take here. Firstly, you could write the error message, in SQLERRM to dbms_output:
SQL> BEGIN
2 EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE SP_AD_B;';
3 EXCEPTION
4 WHEN OTHERS THEN
5 dbms_output.put_line('Exception, rolling back transaction, SP_AD not resolved.');
6 dbms_output.put_line('Error message was: ' || SQLERRM);
7 END;
8 /
Exception, rolling back transaction, SP_AD not resolved.
Error message was: ORA-00911: invalid character
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
You can also use dbms_utility.format_error_backtrace to return the current stacktrace as a string, if you so wish. That might help you figure out where the error came from.
Alternatively, you can reraise the exception. Using RAISE on its own in an EXCEPTION handler reraises the current exception:
SQL> BEGIN
2 EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE SP_AD_B;';
3 EXCEPTION
4 WHEN OTHERS THEN
5 dbms_output.put_line('Exception, rolling back transaction, SP_AD not resolved.');
6 RAISE;
7 END;
8 /
Exception, rolling back transaction, SP_AD not resolved.
BEGIN
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00911: invalid character
ORA-06512: at line 6
However, given the fact that your EXCEPTION handler isn't really doing anything helpful, the best approach is quite probably to get rid of it altogether.
Your exception handler doesn't achieve anything because you can't commit or rollback DDL statements such as CREATE, ALTER, DROP or TRUNCATE. Each of these statements issues a COMMIT immediately before and after it runs. If a DROP succeeds but a RENAME fails, you can't get the dropped table back by rolling back a transaction. I'd recommend getting rid of your COMMIT WORK and ROLLBACK WORK statements.
Finally, commenter Jeffrey Kemp noticed this line:
SELECT SOURCE INTO source FROM map_switch WHERE ROWNUM = 1;
This assigns into a variable named source the value of the column SOURCE from some arbitrary row of the table map_switch. It could be any row; as you haven't specified any ordering, Oracle is free to order the rows of map_switch however it likes.
If there's only one row in the table, then it's clear which row you'll get back. However, if this is the case, why specify ROWNUM = 1? Does the table have more than one row and is the ROWNUM = 1 part is just there to silence an 'exact fetch returns more than requested number of rows' error?
You would be better off doing something like the following:
SELECT SOURCE INTO source
FROM (SELECT SOURCE FROM map_switch ORDER BY some_column)
WHERE ROWNUM = 1;
I don't know what columns there are in your map_switch table, so I've just used some_column above as a placeholder for one of them. Choose a column that has unique values, if possible.
Note that we can't simply do SELECT ... WHERE ROWNUM = 1 ORDER BY some_column as that would apply the ROWNUM = 1 clause before doing the sorting, and there's not a lot of point sorting a single row as there's only one order it can be returned in.

trigger for updating a value

I am a newbie in PLSQL and I would like to create a trigger that checks first if there is a record in a table before making an update.
The code I got so far is:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER table_bu
BEFORE UPDATE ON employee
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
v_employee_id:=employee.employee_ID%TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT employee_id INTO v_employee_id FROM employee;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20001,'data not found');
END;
How I can create a trigger that checks up if a record exists in the table and if it does not exists does not allow the update.
My table estructure is:
employee_id NUMBER
employee_name VARCHAR(20)
employee_salary NUMBER
...
Thanks
You are on a wrong way. The trigger as it is will throw runtime 'Mutating table' error even after fixing syntax error - you missed semicolon after raise_application_error(also it should take 2 arguments, not one). Correct syntax :
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20001, 'data not found'); -- 1st parameter -error code
Update
As far as I understand the updated version of the question, you want to show error if record doesn't exist. The problem with row level trigger approach is that it won't be executed if nothing is found due to condition in WHERE. The simplest way is to check number of rows affected on client side and raise an error there. Or you can write a procedure that checks sql%rowcount after executing desired update, and then throw an exception if it's 0.
If you prefer to do in a hard way, you can create package variable which of type employee.employee_ID%TYPE, before update statement level trigger that resets variable (say set it to null), after update row level trigger that sets this variable to NEW.employee_ID, and after update statement level trigger that throws an exception if the variable is null. Note: this will properly work for individual updates only.
"How I can create a trigger that checks up if a record exists in the table and if it does not exists does not allow the update."
There is really only one practical way to do this - use a referential constraint (foreign key).

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