Question

I have a shell script running on unix. Like this:

$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus -s '/ as sysdba' <<EOF
set head on; 
set feed on;
set serveroutput on;
set linesize 250;   
set pagesize 1000;
column STATUS new_value VAR_STATUS ;
column JOB_NAME new_value VAR_JOB_NAME ;
BEGIN
SELECT JOB_NAME, STATUS
FROM DBA_SCHEDULER_JOB_RUN_DETAILS WHERE JOB_NAME = 'SOME_JOB' AND ACTUAL_START_DATE IN (SELECT MAX(ACTUAL_START_DATE) FROM DBA_SCHEDULER_JOB_RUN_DETAILS);

END;

/
exit
EOF

I get error:

ERROR at line 2:
ORA-06550: line 2, column 1:
PLS-00428: an INTO clause is expected in this SELECT statement

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Whenever I do stuff like this I don’t use BEGIN and END statements. Think of the redirected input as exactly the same as you typing this from the keyboard.