Comments on: Dynamic SQL Pivoting – Stealing Anton’s Thunder

By: DB

DB — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:33:20 +0000

Great work guys! I used it and it helped a lot..
I got the same ORA-29913: error in executing ODCITABLEDESCRIBE callout’ err,
after digging in a bit I saw it is sensitive to reserved oracle words in the pivot column (the n-1 column). when I changed ‘user’ and ‘rowid’ values into ‘username’ and ‘row_id’ it worked fine.
another thing regarding that n-1 pivot column – can’t extend beyond 30 chars or it will pop the “invalid … ” err.

after fixing those two all I was left with was admiring your nice work.

By: KT

KT — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:37:26 +0000

Hi,
I tried implementing the code.Even after creating the type PIVOTIMPL,when I run the select statement,i get an error message that PIVOTIMPL is not declared.
Any inputs what could be the reason?

By: SUdarshan

SUdarshan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:08:26 +0000

I get the error “PLS-00302 SETUROWID must be declared”

when dbms_types.typecode_urowid then
dbms_sql.column_value( self.cur, i, ur1 );
outset.seturowid( ur1 );

By: Patrick Sinke

Patrick Sinke — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:21:30 +0000

For all you people experiencing problems with the ODCITABLEDESCRIBE callout, you might want to check two things. The number columns are quite strict: a column for the vertical axis, a column for the horizontal axis, and a third one for the result values.
Secondly, I haven’t found a way to parametize the query results, e.g. concatenating a parameter in the query. If you stick to that, it works like a charm!

By: Ionut

Ionut — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:13:28 +0000

Hi, Is there a way of getting this to work on oracle 9i? I managed to make it compile somehow but I get the same ‘ORA-29913: error in executing ODCITABLEDESCRIBE callout’ error message when I try to run it.

By: Sudeep

Sudeep — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:12:20 +0000

It’s nice.

I am getting error while executing as

‘ORA-29913: error in executing ODCITABLEDESCRIBE callout’

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 24 May 2006 17:19:38 +0000

Anton, Lucas, did you guys ever tried this by building a dynamic array? Or does this have to many disadvanges?

By: Viliam

Viliam — Wed, 24 May 2006 07:52:19 +0000

Bad luck, it does not compile on 9iR2 we are using

By: Karl r.

Karl r. — Wed, 24 May 2006 07:09:39 +0000

Hi,
that’s really a kind o f magic.
now i understand the implementation via interface.
it’s an interface mechanism like in C#; as you must satisfy those oci prefixed interface and then internally in the sql-engine methods of the interfaces are called.
a really interesting approach.
Karl