Benefit of the dynamic SQL:

This part shows you how to take full benefit of the dynamic SQL and how to keep away from some of the common pitfalls.

Passing the Names of Schema Objects:

Assume that you require a procedure which accepts the name of any database table, and then drop that table from your schema. By using the dynamic SQL, you may write the stand-alone procedure as shown below:

CREATE PROCEDURE drop_table (table_name IN VARCHAR2) AS

BEGIN

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE :tab' USING table_name;

END;

Though, at run time, this procedure fails with an invalid table name error. That is as you cannot use the bind arguments to pass the names of the schema objects to a dynamic SQL statement. Rather, you should embed parameters in the dynamic string, and then pass the names of the schema objects to those parameters.

To debug the last illustration, you should revise the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statement. Rather of using the placeholder and bind the argument, you can use the concatenation operator to embed the parameter table_name in the dynamic string, which is as shown below:

CREATE PROCEDURE drop_table (table_name IN VARCHAR2) AS

BEGIN

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE ' || table_name;

END;