RE: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

[Richard Ji]

Title: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

Truncate is a DDL.  So you can't just do "truncate" like you would with delete which is a DML.

You didn't say which version of Oracle you are running.  If it's 8i, do

 

execute immediate "truncate table .........";

 

Otherwise, look into DBMS_SQL.

 

Richard Ji

-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Ron L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 5:09 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

I am not a coder but I received this from one of our developers.  I can't find anything about this anywhere.  Can someone tell me how to make the truncate work?

Thanks!

R.Smith

In a DB procedure, I wanted to include the following SQL:
BEGIN
 TRUNCATE TABLE LOT837_GLOBAL_TBL_KMG;
END;

Error messages:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "TABLE" when expecting one of the following:
  := . ( @ % ;
The symbol ":= was inserted before "TABLE" to continue.
(It does not like it, if you take out TABLE, either.)

So, I had to settle for the following SQL:

BEGIN
 DELETE LOT837_GLOBAL_TBL_KMG;
END;

Do you know why I can not use the TRUNCATE command?

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