Question

I’m using System.Data.OracleClient.OracleCommand to create a table and fill it out with some data. The query I am using runs OK in PS/SQL Developer, however when I’m trying to execute it from within .NET application I’m getting this error:

ORA-06550: line 1, column 20: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol '' when expecting one of the following:     begin function package pragma procedure subtype type use    <an identifier> <a double-quoted delimited-identifier> form    current cursor 

Column 20 is exactly where first line ends. As soon as I remove line end characters (\r\n) from the command it all starts working.

I wonder is there some hidden configuration parameter to enable multi-line queries for Oracle?

Here is some code:

               var text = @'declare cnt number; begin   select count(*) into cnt from all_tables  where table_name = 'TABLE_A';   if cnt = 1 then    begin        execute immediate 'truncate table TABLE_A';       execute immediate 'drop table TABLE_A';    end; end if;  execute immediate 'create table TABLE_A as   (SELECT DISTINCT v.ID, g.ext_id FROM VIEW_A v  JOIN TABLE_B B ON v.id = B.Id  WHERE YEAR1 = ''2008'')';  end;');              var createTempTable = new OracleCommand(text, conn);             createTempTable.CommandType = CommandType.Text;             conn.Open();              try             {                 createTempTable.ExecuteNonQuery();             }             catch(Exception ex)             {                 throw;             }             finally             {                 conn.Close();                 } 

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

I think you need to lose just the ‘\r’ characters.