RE: what's wrong with this...DBMS

From: Koivu, Lisa <lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:51:37 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00324989.20010611135548@fatcity.com>

Surendra, you need to execute it. Look at the spec of dbms_sql (I want to say it's dbms_sql.execute()). Either that or use EXECUTE IMMEDIATE.

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
954-935-4117

The information in the electronic mail message is Cendant confidential and may be legally privileged, it is intended solely for the addressee(s) access to this internet electronic mail message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful.

The sender believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and other defects. Cendant Corporation or Affiliates are not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this message or its attachments.

-----Original Message-----

From:   Tirumala, Surendra [SMTP:Surendra.Tirumala_at_am.sony.com]
Sent:   Monday, June 11, 2001 4:55 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Subject: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL

Hi List,

As the part of developing hot backup strategy, I am testing the following piece of code
to take care of arch files to be made avaialable along with backup set.

SQL> create or replace procedure log_switch as
2 cursor1 integer;
3 begin
4 cur1 := dbms_sql.open_cursor;
5 dbms_sql.parse(cur1,'ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE', dbms_sql.v7);
6 dbms_sql.close_cursor(cur1);
7 end;
8 /

Procedure created.

SQL> execute log_switch;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

But, I have observed several times that the above code is not forcing a log switch.
FYI, I want to track the sequence# of logfiles before and after the hot backup, so that
I can backup the files in that range.

Am I properly using the DBMS_SQL?
Any help is highly appreciated

TIA,
Suren
Oracle DBA
Sony

-- 
Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
-- 
Author: Tirumala, Surendra


  INET: Surendra.Tirumala_at_am.sony.com



Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051
San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists
--------------------------------------------------------------------
To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message
to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in
the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L
(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may
also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).

Received on Mon Jun 11 2001 - 15:51:37 CDT

RE: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL