Re: PL/SQL problems

Roland.Skoldblom_at_ica.se wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> I would like to know how to solve this problem:
>
> When this procedure runs, which makes an insert into table pbk.prisregister,
> it inserts the same value in field substitut where there exists a substitut.
>
> Please help me with this?
>
> It should be null in that field in case thre is a substiut for that ean number in
>the original table.
>

Roland,

  If I were you I would crap the whole procedure. Have you heard of something called 'JOIN'? Very interesting feature, which makes imbedded loops unnecessary (notwithstanding the fact that you are hard-coding all values. CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE, pleeeeeeze !). There is even something which is very very exciting, named 'external join', which could help in your case. I hardly dare mention UNIONs and the DECODE() function. Try of not thinking of relational tables as if they were sequential files.

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