prabhu r
prabhu r

Reputation: 181

ORA-06550 PLS-00103 error:encountered the symbol

create or replace PROCEDURE empl_info(ename VARCHAR2,empid OUT 
NUMBER,empcount OUT NUMBER,empname OUT VARCHAR2)
IS
BEGIN
SELECT COUNT(emp_name) INTO empcount FROM employees WHERE emp_name=ename;
SELECT emp_name, emp_id INTO empname,empid FROM employees WHERE 
emp_name=ename;
END;


DECLARE en INT,ei INTEGER,ec INT;
EXECUTE empl_info('balu',ei OUTPUT,ec OUTPUT,en OUT);
 SELECT en,ec;

error: ORA-06550:line 1,column 15 PLS-00103:encountered the symbol ";" when expecting one of the following.

can you solve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 16934

Answers (3)

ERHAN_CETIN
ERHAN_CETIN

Reputation: 1

I know it sounds inadequate but I could get rid of this error when I called the procedure and the parameters on the same line.

So, when I called the procedure like below I got "ORA-06550:line 1,column 32 PLS-00103:encountered the symbol ";" when expecting one of the following." error:

EXEC PR_UNITE_FILES( 

PARAMETER1,

PARAMETER2

);

But, when I called the procedure like below, I got no errors:

EXEC PR_UNITE_FILES(  PARAMETER1, PARAMETER2 );

Upvotes: 0

Barbaros Özhan
Barbaros Özhan

Reputation: 65313

SQL> CREATE or REPLACE PROCEDURE empl_info(ename VARCHAR2,empid OUT NUMBER,empcount OUT NUMBER,empname OUT VARCHAR2) IS
BEGIN
  SELECT COUNT(emp_name) INTO empcount FROM employees WHERE emp_name=ename;
  SELECT emp_name, emp_id INTO empname,empid FROM employees WHERE emp_name=ename;
  dbms_output.put_line(' employee name : '||empname||'  |  employee count : '||empcount);
END;

just call variables without OUT or OUTPUT

SQL> set serveroutput on;
SQL> var ei number;
SQL> var ec number;
SQL> var en varchar2(100);
SQL> exec empl_info('balu',:ei,:ec,:en);

Upvotes: 0

Bikash Ranjan Bhoi
Bikash Ranjan Bhoi

Reputation: 516

Please use the proper syntax of ANONYMOUS BLOCK

DECLARE 
    en NUMBER;
    ei NUMBER;
    ec NUMBER;
BEGIN
    empl_info('balu',ei,ec,en);
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('EN :'||en);
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('EC :'||ec);
END;

Upvotes: 0

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