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Tom Walker
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I use the following SQL passthru code:
SQL SQLORA
select ' xx ' || DS_DV_EXT_VALUE || ' - ' || DS_DV_TRANSLATION
from lookup_sis
where DS_ELEM_NO in ('MM205')
;
TABLE FILE SQLOUT
PRINT *
END
------------------------------------
This works perfectly with 4.3.6.
With 5.2.5 I get the following error:
(FOC230) MISSING ENDING QUOTE MARK:
''XX''||DS_DV_EXT_VALUE||''-''||DS_DV_TRANSLATION
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I found - by playing with it - that anytime I start the concatenation with a literal value instead of a database column, it will fail. This
works fine with native Oracle, and with WF 436. Why won't it work with 525?
 
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<Grzegorz>
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I checked this with 5.2.1 and it works, but it results in the same error in 5.2.4 (Oracle 8.1.7).
<br />
Example (to easy reproduce):<br />
SQL SQLORA<br />SELECT '...' || SYSDATE FROM DUAL;<br />END<br />-* 
Results in error with some WF releases
Workaround 1:
Add empty string at the end of the concatenated field.<br />
SQL SQLORA<br />SELECT '...' || SYSDATE || '' FROM DUAL;<br />END
Workaround 2: Add the name for the field using Oracle SQL AS syntax.<br />
SQL SQLORA<br />SELECT '...' || SYSDATE AS FIELD FROM DUAL;<br />END
It looks like the following (after analysing traces):<br /><br />Before sending query to Oracle, the master file for the result is created, and WebFOCUS is not going to accept something like ''...''||SYSDATE as the TITLE attribute of the field. The TITLE attribute is never used after that, the FIELDNAME attribute is used instead.<br />In the "working" WF releases the TITLE attribute is not set (the same for the working queries in the "wrong" releases)<br /><br />I did not check it with 5.3 (beta) yet, but if it behaves like 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 it should be changed.<br /><br />Regards<br /> Grzegorz

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You get a 5 star rating from me - your solutions worked. Thanks for the reply.
 
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