I am trying to run a simple SQL statement with DB2 and am having a few problems.
I would like to have a single script in a txt/db2 file and have the engine process all of the commands
Here is the script:
CONNECT TO MYDB
CREATE TABLE PERSONS(
PID SMALLINT NOT NULL,
NAME VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL
)
TERMINATE
When I run a db2 -f /pathtofile I get:
SQL0104N An unexpected token "(" was found following "CREATE TABLE PERSONS".
Expected tokens may include: "END-OF-STATEMENT". SQLSTATE=42601
What am I doing wrong? Is there something wrong with my script?
Also, why is it working without ";" terminators at the end of my statements?
Thank you,
May be this will be of help,
http://www.uc.edu/R/r25/documentation/Version3.2/install_instructions.pdf:
The scripts use a semi-colon (;) to terminate each SQL
command. If you use the DB2 Command Line Processor,
you should remember to use the “-t” flag.
...
If you do not use the -t flag, you will get errors such as the
following upon running the db2ct32.sql script:
create table “ACCOUNTS” (
DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a
valid Command Line Processor command. During SQL processing it returned:
SQL0104N An unexpected token “(“ was found following “ate table “ACCOUNTS””.
Expected tokens may include: “END-OF-STATEMENT”. SQLSTATE=42601
So, I would add semicolons and invoke with -t switch whatever nonsense it stands for.
I looked into samples, they use something like
db2 -tf "pathtofile"
Also with
db2 -tvf "pathtofile"
you might get more diagnostics.
Don't push proprietary soft to the limits, they are not that wide.
You have a comma after the name line
Change:
NAME VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
to:
NAME VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL
I would insert a space or a line separator between CREATE TABLE PERSONS and (
just to be safe.
If I include semicolons and use the -t flag, I get:
SQL0104N An unexpected token "/" was found following "BEGIN-OF-STATEMENT".
Expected tokens may include: "<values>". SQLSTATE=42601
The following syntax without spaces works right on the command line,
CREATE TABLE PERSONS (PID SMALLINT NOT NULL, NAME VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL)
formatting a file with this and not the paragraph style worked for my assignment here - http://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2016-17/F/3421/project/create/yrb-create.txt