Showing posts with label pl/sql. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pl/sql. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 June 2014

SQLDeveloper: Handy user report to generate column names and data types for arbitrary query

I've already covered the tough question on converting arbitrary query to clob delimited text (Take 1 and Take 2). The resulting function used a code snippet that produced a list of column names and their datatypes in it's intestines. Based on that snippet here's a SQLDeveloper user reports that produces a list of column names and their datatypes for arbitrary query. A result of a report is ready to be used in create (temporary) table statement or insert statement (for target columns) and in many other ways.
Here's the text of a report:
/* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6544922/column-names-in-an-empty-oracle-ref-cursor */
DECLARE
  v_ref_cur SYS_REFCURSOR;
  v_cur_handle NUMBER;
  v_count NUMBER;
  v_desc_tab dbms_sql.desc_tab;
  v_statement clob := :a_statement;
  v_print_data_type pls_integer := :a_print_data_type;
  DELIMITER constant varchar2( 5 char ) := chr( 13 ) || chr( 10 ) || chr( 9 ) || ', ';
  PROCEDURE print_desc_tab( a_desc_tab IN sys.dbms_sql.desc_tab, a_print_data_type in pls_integer ) as
    v_data_type VARCHAR2(30);
    v_delimiter varchar2( 30 char ) := '';  
  BEGIN
    dbms_output.put_line( '<pre>' );
    FOR i IN 1 .. a_desc_tab.count LOOP
      SELECT DECODE( to_char( a_desc_tab( i ).col_type ), 1, 'VARCHAR2', 2, 'NUMBER', 12, 'DATE' )
      INTO v_data_type
      FROM dual
      ;
      dbms_output.put( v_delimiter || a_desc_tab( i ).col_name );
      if ( 1 = a_print_data_type ) then
        dbms_output.put( ' ' || v_data_type);  
        case a_desc_tab( i ).col_type
          when 1 then
            dbms_output.put( '(' || to_char( a_desc_tab( i ).col_max_len ) || ' char)' );  
          when 2 then
            if ( 0 != a_desc_tab( i ).col_precision ) then
              dbms_output.put( 
                '(' || to_char( a_desc_tab( i ).col_precision ) || ', ' || to_char( a_desc_tab( i ).col_scale ) || ')'  
              );  
            end if;
          else
          
            null;
        end case;
      end if;
      v_delimiter := DELIMITER;
    END LOOP;
    dbms_output.new_line;
    dbms_output.put_line( '</pre>' );
  END print_desc_tab;
  
BEGIN
  OPEN v_ref_cur FOR v_statement;

  v_cur_handle := dbms_sql.to_cursor_number( v_ref_cur );
  dbms_sql.describe_columns( v_cur_handle, v_count, v_desc_tab );
  
  print_desc_tab( v_desc_tab, v_print_data_type );
  dbms_sql.close_cursor( v_cur_handle );
END;
And here's the link for user report (hosted on Google drive). Once downloaded it can be imported into SQLDeveloper.

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Useful onliner to make testing in Oracle SQL*Developer a little bit easier

This little script helps to test subroutines using SQL*Developer Run or Debug command.  Just copy code from "Run PL/SQL" window and run the following onliner in a terminal. It uncomments legacy dbms_ouput code and extends capacity of varchar2 variables from 200 to 32767 chars. Now paste clipboard contents back into SQL Worksheet and run.

cat /dev/clipboard | perl -p -e 's/\/\* Legacy output://g; s/\*\///g; s/VARCHAR2\(200\)/VARCHAR2\( 32767 char \)/g;s/^\s+:.*$//g' > /dev/clipboard