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David Acosta
David Acosta

Reputation: 27

Problems with query in SQL*PLUS

I am getting a ORA-00923 (FROM keyword not found where expected) error when i run this query in sql*plus.

SELECT EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME||' '||LAST_NAME AS FULLNAME
FROM EMPLOYEES
WHERE (JOB_ID, DEPARTMENT_ID) 
IN (SELECT JOB_ID, DEPARTMENT_ID FROM JOB_HISTORY)
AND DEPARTMENT_ID=80;

I ran that query in sql developer and guess what, it works without any problem, why I'm getting this error message when I try in sql*plus.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 169

Answers (3)

Kirill Leontev
Kirill Leontev

Reputation: 10931

Your query is totally valid and runs in sqlplus exactly as it should:

14:04:01 (41)HR@sandbox> l
  1  SELECT EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME||' '||LAST_NAME AS FULLNAME
  2  FROM EMPLOYEES
  3  WHERE (JOB_ID, DEPARTMENT_ID)
  4  IN (SELECT JOB_ID, DEPARTMENT_ID FROM JOB_HISTORY)
  5* AND DEPARTMENT_ID=80
14:04:05 (41)HR@sandbox> /

34 rows selected.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.01

You encounter ORA-00923 only when you have a syntax error. Like this:

14:04:06 (41)HR@sandbox> ed
Wrote file S:\spool\sandbox\BUF_HR_41.sql

  1  SELECT EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME||' '||LAST_NAME AS FULLNAME X
  2  FROM EMPLOYEES
  3  WHERE (JOB_ID, DEPARTMENT_ID)
  4  IN (SELECT JOB_ID, DEPARTMENT_ID FROM JOB_HISTORY)
  5* AND DEPARTMENT_ID=80
14:05:17 (41)HR@sandbox> /
SELECT EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME||' '||LAST_NAME AS FULLNAME X
                                                           *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected

Probably you made one while copying your query from sqldeveloper to sqlplus? Are you sure that your post contains exactly, symbol-to-symbol, the query you're actually trying to execute? I would pay more attention to query text and error message - it usually points at an error, like * under X in my example.

Upvotes: 1

Aditya Kakirde
Aditya Kakirde

Reputation: 5225

SELECT   EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME || ' ' || LAST_NAME AS FULLNAME
  FROM   EMPLOYEES
 WHERE   JOB_ID IN (SELECT   JOB_ID
                      FROM   JOB_HISTORY
                     WHERE   DEPARTMENT_ID = 80);

OR 

SELECT   EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME || ' ' || LAST_NAME AS FULLNAME
  FROM   EMPLOYEES
 WHERE   JOB_ID IN (SELECT   JOB_ID FROM JOB_HISTORY) AND DEPARTMENT_ID = 80;

OR 

SELECT   EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME || ' ' || LAST_NAME AS FULLNAME
  FROM   EMPLOYEES E
 WHERE   EXISTS (SELECT   NULL
                   FROM   JOB_HISTORY J
                  WHERE   J.JOB_ID = E.JOB_ID)
         AND DEPARTMENT_ID = 80;

Upvotes: 1

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 8431

I don't know what you are trying to achieve but here's a possible solution:

/* Formatted on 10/1/2013 1:50:20 PM (QP5 v5.126.903.23003) */
SELECT   EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME || ' ' || LAST_NAME AS FULLNAME
  FROM      EMPLOYEES EMP
         JOIN
            JOB_HISTORY JH
         ON EMP.JOB_ID = JH.JOB_ID AND EMP.DEPARTMENT_ID = JH.DEPARTMENT_ID
 WHERE   EMP.DEPARTMENT_ID = 80;

Upvotes: 0

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