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using a prompt as a column [message #648471]

Tue, 23 February 2016 14:23

yu_yu
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a simple question, how do I add a prompt in a select statemen.

for example, I want to build a query like select a1, a2,:prompt as user_name from table1 where a1 =condition;

here I need the capability of this prompting in the select statement. when I ran like this, I got a toad error: invalid host/bind variable name.

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Re: using a prompt as a column [message #648472 is a reply to message #648471]

Tue, 23 February 2016 14:31

BlackSwan
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Why not just static SELECT as needed?

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Re: using a prompt as a column [message #648473 is a reply to message #648471]

Tue, 23 February 2016 14:36

Michel Cadot
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What is your goal in the end?

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Re: using a prompt as a column [message #648474 is a reply to message #648473]

Tue, 23 February 2016 14:40

yu_yu
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This is purely an information field, not used for any other statement later on. Whoever run the query will enter their name. the results will be dumped to csv file. Instead of doing extra step, it's convenient to have this in the query.

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