Question

I tried to insert a set of rows as soon as a table is created using the following query in Java as followed:

DECLARE tbl_exist  PLS_INTEGER; 
BEGIN 
select count(*) into tbl_exist  from user_tables where table_name = 'REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE'; 
if tbl_exist = 0 then 
    execute immediate 'create table REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE ( 
    ID varchar2(2) not null primary key, 
    NAME varchar(255) not null )'; 
    execute immediate 'insert into REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE (ID, NAME) values ('QU','IN THE QUEUE')'; 
    execute immediate 'insert into REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE (ID, NAME) values ('IN','INCIDENT')'; 
    execute immediate 'insert into REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE (ID, NAME) values ('CM','COMPLETED')'; 
    execute immediate 'insert into REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE (ID, NAME) values ('PR','PROCESSING')'; 
    execute immediate 'insert into REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE (ID, NAME) values ('CN','CANCELLED')'; 
end if; 
END;

It failed. Was this because the use of “execute immediate” statement?

Answer 1

Based on your first iteration of the question, it probably fails because your first insert is into a totally different table:

execute immediate 'insert into PRINTING_JOB_STATE (ID, NAME) values ... '
execute immediate 'insert into REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE (ID, NAME) values .... '

In other words, you’re using PRINTING_JOB_STATE instead of REPRO_PRINTING_JOB_STATE.

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However, now that you’ve confirmed that was just a simple typo on your part, you need to check your use of the single quotes in the insert statements. The fact that your dynamic string is surrounded by ' characters means that using ' inside the string (around things like QU) will be problematic.

You’ll probably need to escape the quotes by using duplicated quotes, such as with:

execute immediate 'insert into XYZZY (ID, NAME) values (''QU'', ''QUEUED'')';

That’s two single quotes on either side of the QU and QUEUED, not a double quote.