Question

Below is a query generated by the PetaPoco ORM for .NET. I don’t have an Oracle client right now to debug it and I can’t see anything obviously wrong (but I’m a SQL Server guy). Can anyone tell me why it is producing this error:

Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleException ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected

SELECT * 
FROM (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) peta_rn, 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."CU_NO", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."CU_NAME", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."CU_TYPE", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."CONTACT", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."ADD1_SH", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."ADD2_SH", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."CITY_SH", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."POST_CODE", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."PROV_SH", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."COUNTRY", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."PHONE_NU", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."FAX_NU", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."EMAIL", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."PU_ORDER_FL", 
"ON_CUST_MAS"."CREDIT_AMOUNT" 
FROM "ON_CUST_MAS" ) peta_paged 
WHERE peta_rn>0 AND peta_rn<=20

Edit: Just in case it helps, this is a paging query. Regular queries (select all, select by ID) are working fine.

Answer 1

The problem is that the SELECT NULL in the ORDER BY clause of your analytic function is syntactically incorrect.

over (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL))

could be rewritten

(ORDER BY (SELECT NULL from dual))

or more simply

(ORDER BY null)

Of course, it doesn’t really make sense to get a row_number if you aren’t ordering the results by anything. There is no reason to expect that the set of rows that are returned would be consistent– you could get any set of 20 rows arbitrarily. And if you go to the second page of results, there is no reason to expect that the second page of results would be completely different than the first page or that any particular result would appear on any page if you page through the entire result set.