[Oracle-l] Passing DB-Link name in a Loop

Hemant

In case nobody has yet replied I believe your error is that you
cannot use a
bind variable in an execute immediate for the db link name as you
are trying
to do with this statement:

exec_string := 'select sum(bytes)/1048576 from
dba_data_files@:b1';

Changing it to this might work (I've not checked it myself so no
guarantees)

exec_string := 'select sum(bytes)/1048576 from
dba_data_files@'||remote_db;
execute immediate exec_string into db_size;

T¬


-----Original Message-----
From: Hemant K Chitale
Sent: 21 March 2003 01:34
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Passing DB-Link name in a Loop



Guys,
help me here.
This SQL [below] returns the error :
connecting to AM3C01
declare
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01729: database link name expected
ORA-06512: at line 16


[AM3C01] is the first db_link fetched.

tti 'Database Sizes (excluding TEMPFILEs) ' center

spool DB_Sizes

set serveroutput on size 50000;

declare
cursor c1 is select db_link from user_db_links;

remote_DB varchar2(128);
db_size number;
exec_string varchar2(255);

begin
open c1;
loop
fetch c1 into remote_DB;
exit when c1%NOTFOUND;
dbms_output.put_line('connecting to '||remote_DB);
-- select sum(bytes)/1048576 into db_size from
dba_data_files_at_remote_DB;
exec_string := 'select sum(bytes)/1048576 from
dba_data_files@:b1';
execute immediate exec_string into db_size using remote_DB;
dbms_output.put_line('DB : '||remote_DB||': '||db_size);
end loop;
close c1;
commit;
end;
/

spool off

Hemant K Chitale
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