Re: HELP!!! BEGINNER PL/SQL QUESTION

The errors means.

That your are your are expecting to return one value, but are returning more than one value.

Alain C. Bonnemaison wrote in message <7nlg7b$34t_at_journal.concentric.net>...
>I apologize for the very large distribution of this message. I hope someone
>out here can help. I am writing a stored procedure that extracts data from
a
>staging table, scrubs it and pushes it in several target tables. The
>procedure works fine but spits out at random some rows and return this
error
>message: "Ora 01422: exact fetch returns more than requested # of rows."
>
>The Oracle documentation doesn't say much about the meaning of this error.
>Can someone please provide me with some insight as to what could be the
>reason of this error?? My code is structured as such:
>
>Begin cursor declaration
>select
>var1
>var2
>...
>from staging_table
>End cursor declaration
>Begin data scrubing
>...
>End data scrubing
>Begin scrubed data push to target tables <-- suspected area of error
>...
>End scrubed data push to target tables
>
>I am guessing that this error may be due to the fact that I am declaring
>less variables in my cursor (or in my data scrubing code) than I insert
into
>my target tables. Unless this is the other way around? Am I wrong? How can
I
>fix this problem? Help!!! I'll use any assistance as this problem is
driving
>me nuts!!!
>
>Thanks in advance for your time and your patience!!!
>--
>Alan. (Remove NOSPAM to reply to me directly).
>---------------------------
>Email: abonnemaison_at_NOSPAM.profoundsolutions.com
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 20:12:48 CDT