Re: CASE under Oracle8i

Larry, that's brilliant. That solution hadn't occurred to me.

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:53:19 -0800, Larry Elkins wrote:

>
>The easy way around it is to use Native Dynamic SQL.
>
> 1 DECLARE
> 2 dual_message VARCHAR2(20);
> 3 BEGIN
> 4 Execute Immediate
> 5 'SELECT CASE
> 6 WHEN DUMMY=''X'' THEN ''Dual is OK''
> 7 ELSE ''Dual is messed up''
> 8 END
> 9 FROM DUAL' into dual_message;
> 10 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(dual_message);
> 11* END;
>SQL> /
>Dual is OK
>
>PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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