RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

You cannot execute DDL in PL/SQL (Never could) unless you use DBMS_SQL
(Pre-8i) or Execute Immediate (8i)

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Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:31 AM
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Not true...If I open a sqlplus window and issue a truncate on the schema--no problem. If I try and do it through a procedure like below--I get the errors....

lc

-----Original Message-----
Witold.Iwaniec_at_atl.bluecross.ca
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:47 AM
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Not 100% sure but I think only the table owner can use "TRUNCATE"

Witold

Raymond Lee Meng Hong <RAYMOND_at_infopro.com.my> on 06/21/2001 01:10:52

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Got these error ? may be my DBA restrict these ?

ORA-00903: invalid table name
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_SQL", line 239
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SQL", line 32
ORA-06512: at line 8

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:20 AM
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You can try the following , not sure if it will work though......let me know if it does... :-)

DECLARE

myCur          number;
mySQL          varchar2(2000);

BEGIN
mySQL := 'TRUNCATE TABLE (table_name)';
myCur := DBMS_SQL.open_cursor;
DBMS_SQL.PARSE(myCur, mySQL, DBMS_SQL.NATIVE); DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(myCur);
END; Regards,
Karthik

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:55 AM
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 Hello guru , how can I execute a truncate table in PL/SQL ?? It only work for delete DML only ? why ?

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