In MYTABLE there are courses and their predecessor courses. What I am trying to is to find the courses to be taken after the specified course. I am getting missing SELECT keyword error. Why I am getting this error although I have SELECT statement in FOR statement ? Where am I doing wrong ?
DECLARE
coursename varchar2(200) := 'COURSE_101';
str varchar2(200);
BEGIN
WITH DATA AS
(select (select course_name
from MYTABLE
WHERE predecessors like ('''%' || coursename||'%''')
) str
from dual
)
FOR cursor1 IN (SELECT str FROM DATA)
LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(cursor1);
END LOOP;
end;
Unless I'm wrong, WITH factoring clause can't be used that way; you'll have to use it as an inline view, such as this:
declare
coursename varchar2(200) := 'COURSE_101';
str varchar2(200);
begin
for cursor1 in (select str
from (select (select course_name
from mytable
where predecessors like '''%' || coursename||'%'''
) str
from dual
)
)
loop
dbms_output.put_line(cursor1.str);
end loop;
end;
/
Apart from the fact that it doesn't work (wrong LIKE condition), you OVERcomplicated it. This is how it, actually, does something:
SQL> create table mytable(course_name varchar2(20),
2 predecessors varchar2(20));
Table created.
SQL> insert into mytable values ('COURSE_101', 'COURSE_101');
1 row created.
SQL>
SQL> declare
2 coursename varchar2(20) := 'COURSE_101';
3 begin
4 for cursor1 in (select course_name str
5 from mytable
6 where predecessors like '%' || coursename || '%'
7 )
8 loop
9 dbms_output.put_line(cursor1.str);
10 end loop;
11 end;
12 /
COURSE_101
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
Also, is that WHERE clause correct? PREDECESSORS LIKE COURSENAME? I'm not saying that it is wrong, just looks somewhat strange.