Its just possible that the script I presented at UK-OUG two years ago may
meet your requirements. It uses nested SQL*Plus (not pl/sql) to count as
many tables as you identify in a driver table, and store those results.

Check it out at http://peter-robson.port5.com/count.htm

The site will be subject to some modifications over the next couple of
months, but most of the stuff is there.

peter
edinburgh


> -----Original Message-----
> From: CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC) [mailto:clchan@;nie.edu.sg]
> Sent: 17 October 2002 10:19
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: How to get the count of all tables using dbms_sql
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to insert the total number of records all the tables 
> into the table,
> MIGRATION_TABLE. I want to use the 
> How do I obtain the count(*) into a variable in 
> "dbms_sql.parse(cid, 'SELECT
> COUNT(*) FROM ' ||i.owner||'.'||i.table_name, dbms_sql.v7); " ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Declare
>    cid INTEGER; 
> BEGIN 
>   for i in (select OWNER,TABLE_NAME from DBA_TABLES) loop
> 
>     -- Open new cursor and return cursor ID. 
>     cid := dbms_sql.open_cursor; 
> 
>    /* Parse and immediately execute dynamic SQL statement built by 
>       concatenating table name to DROP TABLE command.  (Unlike DML 
>       statements, DDL statements are executed at parse time.) */ 
>    dbms_sql.parse(cid, 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ' 
> ||i.owner||'.'||i.table_name,
> dbms_sql.v7); 
> 
> /* Close cursor. */ 
>    dbms_sql.close_cursor(cid); 
> 
>   end loop;
> 
> EXCEPTION 
>    /* If an exception is raised, close cursor before exiting. */ 
>    WHEN OTHERS THEN 
>       dbms_sql.close_cursor(cid); 
> END;
> 
> Regds,
> New Bee
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