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Igor, read the docs more carefully.
it states that you should do the execute because the parse is NOT guaranteed to work that way in the future.
Do does it work without the execute, yes, will in work in the future, maybe, just do the execute and don't worry about it :)
right out of $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmssql.sql
procedure parse(c in integer, statement in varchar2,
language_flag in integer);
-- Parse the given statement in the given cursor. NOTE THAT PARSING AND
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>Thanks Igor for setting me straight. I don't see that in the doco but I am
>looking at 8.1.7.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Neyman [SMTP:ineyman_at_perceptron.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:31 AM
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> > Subject: Re: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL
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> > Lisa,
> >
> > You don't need DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE, when running other then DML statements.
> > DBMS_SQL.PARSE is enough.
> >
> > Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
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> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:55 PM
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> >
> > 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
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> > 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
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> > Author: Tirumala, Surendra
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