Question

I have a cursor which is returning certain value. I would like to assign this value to a text field. When I compile trigger it returns error: “bad bind variable” for new_dr.textitem43. Any help greatly appreciated.

declare
    EMP_ID_VALUE number :='NEW_EMP.ID_FIELD';
    pcv_no     pcv%TYPE;

cursor cursor_dr IS
  select pcv FROM drivers 
  where drivers.eno = EMP_ID_VALUE;

begin
  IF EMP_ID_VALUE < 1000 THEN

  open cursor_dr;

  fetch cursor_dr into pcv_no; 
  :new_dr.textitem43 := 'pcv_no';
  exit when cursor_dr%NOTFOUND;
  CLOSE cursor_dr;

  ELSIF
 ...
END IF;

end;

Answer 1

That would indicate to me that either there is no block named new_dr or there is no field named textitem43 in that block. Are you sure you don’t really mean :new_emp.textitem43?