I have a stored procedure that accepts multiple parameters (i.e. pName, pHeight, pTeam)
I have the query built up like this:
SQLQuery VARCHAR2(6000);
TestCursor T_CURSOR;
SQLQuery := 'SELECT ID, Name, Height, Team FROM MyTable WHERE ID IS NOT NULL ';
-- Build the query based on the parameters passed.
IF pName IS NOT NULL
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Name LIKE :pName ';
END IF;
IF pHeight IS > 0
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Height = :pHeight ';
END IF;
IF pTeam IS NOT NULL
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Team LIKE :pTeam ';
END IF;
OPEN TestCursor FOR SQLQuery USING pName, pHeight, pTeam;
If I execute the procedure passing all parameters, it runs properly.
But if I only passed one or two of the parameters, then the procedure errors out:
ORA-01006: bind variable does not exist
How do I selectively bind the variable with the parameters based on where the parameter value was used? For example, if only pName was passed, then I would only execute the query:
OPEN TestCursor FOR SQLQuery USING pName;
Or if both pName and pTeam was passed, then:
OPEN TestCursor FOR SQLQuery USING pName, pTeam;
Hope someone can shed more ways to resolve this. Thanks.
Edit:
I could actually use the following:
-- Build the query based on the parameters passed.
IF pName IS NOT NULL
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Name LIKE ''' || pName || ''' ';
END IF;
IF pHeight IS > 0
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Height = pHeight ';
END IF;
IF pTeam IS NOT NULL
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Team LIKE ''' || pTeam || ''' ';
END IF;
OPEN TestCursor FOR SQLQuery;
But this would be VERY vulnerable to SQL Injection...
This is not hugely elegant but it would mean that you could always supply all three bind variables even if some of them are null. You only add the extra WHERE
clauses if needed.
(I've tried to format the dynamic SQL to make it more readable, you could just supply it as one long string).
FUNCTION myFunc (
pName IN VARCHAR2,
pHeight IN VARCHAR2,
pTeam IN VARCHAR2
)
RETURN T_CURSOR
IS
-- Local Variables
SQLQuery VARCHAR2(6000);
TestCursor T_CURSOR;
BEGIN
-- Build SQL query
SQLQuery := 'WITH t_binds '||
' AS (SELECT :v_name AS bv_name, '||
' :v_height AS bv_height, '||
' :v_team AS bv_team '||
' FROM dual) '||
' SELECT id, '||
' name, '||
' height, '||
' team '||
' FROM MyTable, '||
' t_binds '||
' WHERE id IS NOT NULL';
-- Build the query WHERE clause based on the parameters passed.
IF pName IS NOT NULL
THEN
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || ' AND Name LIKE bv_name ';
END IF;
IF pHeight > 0
THEN
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || ' AND Height = bv_height ';
END IF;
IF pTeam IS NOT NULL
THEN
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || ' AND Team LIKE bv_team ';
END IF;
OPEN TestCursor
FOR SQLQuery
USING pName,
pHeight,
pTeam;
-- Return the cursor
RETURN TestCursor;
END myFunc;
I'm not in front of a workstation with DB access so I can't test the function but it should be close (please forgive any syntax errors, it's been a long day!)
Hope it helps...
You can use the DBMS_SQL package. This provides an alternative way to run dynamic SQL. It is perhaps a little more cumbersome to use, but it can be more flexible, especially with varying numbers of bind parameters.
Here's how you could use it (warning: I haven't tested this):
FUNCTION player_search (
pName IN VARCHAR2,
pHeight IN NUMBER,
pTeam IN VARCHAR2
) RETURN SYS_REFCURSOR
IS
cursor_name INTEGER;
ignore INTEGER;
id_var MyTable.ID%TYPE;
name_var MyTable.Name%TYPE;
height_var MyTable.Height%TYPE;
team_var MyTable.Team%TYPE;
BEGIN
-- Put together SQLQuery here...
-- Open the cursor and parse the query
cursor_name := DBMS_SQL.OPEN_CURSOR;
DBMS_SQL.PARSE(cursor_name, SQLQuery, DBMS_SQL.NATIVE);
-- Define the columns that the query returns.
-- (The last number for columns 2 and 4 is the size of the
-- VARCHAR2 columns. Feel free to change them.)
DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(cursor_name, 1, id_var);
DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(cursor_name, 2, name_var, 30);
DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(cursor_name, 3, height_var);
DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(cursor_name, 4, team_var, 30);
-- Add bind variables depending on whether they were added to
-- the query.
IF pName IS NOT NULL THEN
DBMS_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(cursor_name, ':pName', pName);
END IF;
IF pHeight > 0 THEN
DBMS_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(cursor_name, ':pHeight', pHeight);
END IF;
IF pTeam IS NOT NULL THEN
DBMS_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(cursor_name, ':pTeam', pTeam);
END IF;
-- Run the query.
-- (The return value of DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE for SELECT queries is undefined,
-- so we must ignore it.)
ignore := DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(cursor_name);
-- Convert the DBMS_SQL cursor into a PL/SQL REF CURSOR.
RETURN DBMS_SQL.TO_REFCURSOR(cursor_name);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
-- Ensure that the cursor is closed.
IF DBMS_SQL.IS_OPEN(cursor_name) THEN
DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(cursor_name);
END IF;
RAISE;
END;
(Note: DBMS_SQL.TO_REFCURSOR
is new in Oracle 11g.)
The approach I use is to include in the dynamic SQL an ELSE case the states the reverse of the IF. Your code tests that pName is not null, so I would add a clause to the generated query testing that pName IS Null. That way you can pass the same parameters every time without affecting the results of the query.
SQLQuery VARCHAR2(6000);
TestCursor T_CURSOR;
SQLQuery := 'SELECT ID, Name, Height, Team FROM MyTable WHERE ID IS NOT NULL ';
-- Build the query based on the parameters passed.
IF pName IS NOT NULL
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Name LIKE :pName ';
ELSE
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND :pName IS NULL';
END IF;
IF pHeight IS > 0
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Height = :pHeight ';
ELSE
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND :pHeight <=0 ';
END IF;
IF pTeam IS NOT NULL
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Team LIKE :pTeam ';
ELSE
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND :pTeam IS NULL';
END IF;
OPEN TestCursor FOR SQLQuery USING pName, pHeight, pTeam;
How about
SQLQuery := 'SELECT ID, Name, Height, Team FROM MyTable WHERE ID IS NOT NULL ';
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Name LIKE :pName ';
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND Team LIKE :pTeam ';
SQLQuery := SQLQuery || 'AND (Height = :pHeight OR :pHeight = 0)';
OPEN TestCursor FOR SQLQuery USING nvl(pName, '%'), nvl(pTeam, '%'), nvl(pHeight, 0), nvl(pHeight, 0);
?