Re: UPDATE and SELECT in one statement

On Aug 2, 10:30 am, BMA <b..._at_nospam.abiware.be> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a bit brainwashed by the SQL Server Programming dialect...
>
> I'm trying to update a column in a table, and immediatly do a select of
> that column in one statement.
>
> So, as I'm used to in SQL Server, i'd do :
>
> UPDATE myTable SET col=(select col+1 from otherTable) where recordnr=2
> SELECT col from myTable where recordnr=2
>
> This is a statement I send in one command to the database server, and
> is used to increment a sequence number for calculating unique invoice
> numbers. THis way, there cannot be any multi-user interference, so nobody
> generates the same invoice number.
>
> This works for SQL Server 2000/2005, but when testing on Oracle I get :
> ORA-00933 : SQL-command is not ended correct (roughly translated from
> dutch right now).
>
> I'm sending this statement from Omnis Studio on a windows XP SP 2 to an
> Oracle 9i Personnal Edition.
>
> Is it possible to send an update and a select in one statement?
>
> Thanks for any help (and sorry for my bad English ...)
>
> Bram

No, if you would have verified the UPDATE syntax in the documentation, you would have noticed this is not possible.

update ...;
select ... ;

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA