I encountered the following error, i'm learning about DBMS_SQL. I was playing around with the below code which drops a table and recreates a new table. I noticed for the recreation of the new table, i'm running into a character constraint. Just wondering what the best solution is to fix this.
I've tried to concatenating two strings but that didnt work. 'CREATE TABLE students_12345(s_id NUMBER, fname VARCHAR2(30),lname VARCHAR2(30),tname VARCHAR2(100), score NUMBER, exam_result VARCHAR2(6))';
Its probably something really simple but its taken me a couple of hours to get to this point in the code and my eyes are going square shaped at this point.
Thanks in advance!
Error starting at line : 48 in command - EXECUTE RecreateTempTable('a') Error report - ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small ORA-06512: at "SYS.RECREATETEMPTABLE", line 33 ORA-06512: at line 1 06502. 00000 - "PL/SQL: numeric or value error%s" *Cause: An arithmetic, numeric, string, conversion, or constraint error occurred. For example, this error occurs if an attempt is made to assign the value NULL to a variable declared NOT NULL, or if an attempt is made to assign an integer larger than 99 to a variable declared NUMBER(2). *Action: Change the data, how it is manipulated, or how it is declared so that values do not violate constraints.
CREATE TABLE students_12345
(student_id NUMBER,
first_name VARCHAR2(30),
last_name VARCHAR2(30),
test_name VARCHAR2(100),
score NUMBER,
exam_result VARCHAR2(6));
/
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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE RecreateTempTable (
p_description IN VARCHAR2) IS
v_descrip VARCHAR2(100) := p_description;
v_cursor NUMBER;
v_createstring VARCHAR2(100);
v_dropstring VARCHAR2(100);
v_numrows INTEGER;
BEGIN
v_cursor := DBMS_SQL.OPEN_CURSOR;
v_dropstring := 'DROP TABLE students_12345';
BEGIN
-- parse the query using the parameter table name
DBMS_SQL.PARSE(v_cursor, v_dropString, DBMS_SQL.NATIVE);
-- execute the cursor query
v_numrows := DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(v_cursor);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
IF SQLCODE != -942 THEN
RAISE;
END IF;
END;
v_createstring := 'CREATE TABLE students_12345(s_id NUMBER, fname VARCHAR2(30),lname VARCHAR2(30),tname VARCHAR2(100), score NUMBER)';
DBMS_SQL.PARSE(v_cursor, v_createstring, DBMS_SQL.NATIVE);
v_numrows := DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(v_cursor);
DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(v_cursor);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(v_cursor);
RAISE;
END RecreateTempTable;
/
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EXECUTE RecreateTempTable('a');