Netteza SQL ALTER TABLE in stored procedure alternative? - sql

I want to alter a table within a For loop in Netteza SQL. I know that Netteza does not allow alter table in a stored procedure. As quoted:
"These SQL commands are also prohibited within the body of a Netezza stored procedure."
Are there any alternatives for doing so? I am a beginner in Netteza. I also don't know if my loop format is correct?
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE "SP_Automate_Table"()
RETURNS INTEGER
LANGUAGE NZPLSQL AS
BEGIN_PROC
DECLARE
vSQL1 varchar(30000) ;
BEGIN
FOR i in 2011..2014
LOOP
For j in 1..12
Loop
call "SP_Count"(i, j);
vSQL1:='alter table X add columnX INT';
....
...
..
EXECUTE immediate vSQL1;
END LOOP;
END LOOP;
END;
END_PROC;

Starting with v7.1 you can declare an AUTOCOMMIT ON block in a stored procedure, and in this block you can call statements that would otherwise be prohibited within a stored procedure.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE ADMIN.SP_ALTER_LOOP(INTEGER, INTEGER)
RETURNS INTEGER
LANGUAGE NZPLSQL AS
BEGIN_PROC
DECLARE
pStartVal ALIAS FOR $1;
pCount ALIAS FOR $2;
vSQL varchar(30000);
BEGIN
BEGIN AUTOCOMMIT ON
for i in 1 .. pCount LOOP
vSQL := 'ALTER TABLE CLAIM_' || pStartVal + i-1 || ' ADD COLUMN (COL2 BIGINT);';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE vSQL;
END LOOP;
END;
END;
END_PROC;
Prior to v7.1, I don't know of a way you can alter a table structure from with a stored procedure.
Note that in the general case of ALTER TABLE (whether scripted like this or manual), be sure to perform a groom of each altered table after the ALTER operation.
GROOM TABLE tablename VERSIONS;

Your loop statement is syntactically correct, but there is no way to issue alter statements from within nzplsql.
I would suggest doing a bash script as an alternative, repeatedly calling nzsql.
for i in $(seq 2011 2014); do
for j in $(seq 1 12); do
nzsql -c "call \"SP_Count\"($i, $j);"
nzsql -c "alter table X add columnX INT;"
done
done
I can't really imagine a use case where you'd want to dynamically add columns by calling a stored procedure from within a database that couldn't also be covered by doing it outside the database.

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Using Alter Statement from a Table in oracle

I have a table like having one column containing this data
Dummy Column
Alter PACKAGE ABC COMPILE;
Alter PACKAGE CDE COMPILE;
Alter PROCEDURE ABC COMPILE;
Alter TRIGGER ABC COMPILE;
I want to make a script such that when i run that it will execute the alter statements line by line and perform the DDL operations.
Something like this should work, obviously assuming you have real DDL statements stored in that dummy column.
for loop over the column when the value is not null
replace the ; by nothing in order to use execute immediate
Example
declare
vsql table.dummy_column%type;
begin
for h in ( select dummy_column from table where dummy_column is not null )
loop
vsql := replace(h.dummy_column,';','');
execute immediate vsql;
end loop;
end;
/

Redshift dollar quoting inside a procedure

I have a procedure which accepts the table name and the 3 fields that need filling. This is to be called from another procedure that loops through another table deciding which sub-table to put stuff into. The important bit is a simple insert statement, e.g.
insert into table1 values
('blah','String','50');
So that 4 parameters coming in (table1, and the 3 values). How would I do this using dollar quoting? Obviously this doesnt work but gives you an idea of what I'm trying to accomplish:
create or replace procedure
insert_dc_table(p_tblname varchar,
p_name varchar,
p_datatype varchar,
p_datalen varchar)
as $$
begin
execute
'insert into '||p_tblname||'(name,datatype,datalen) values '
||'('
||p_name||', '
||p_datatype||', '
||p_datalen
||')';
end;
$$ language plpgsql;
I'd need double-dollars around some, but am unsure of exactly where $$ and quotes go in all this !*&#!
I could declare a variable to hold the execute statement and do:
declare a _output varchar(200);
a_output := $$ insert into $$||p_tblname||$$(name,datatype,datalen) values ( '$$||p_name||$$',
well, i get lost there!
Thanks in advance for help!
Redshift Stored Procedures only require dollar quoting of the procedure body. Quotes inside the the procedure body are interpreted as normal.
You may find that your SQL client does not submit the SP create correctly due to the dollar quotes. If so I recommend using psql to create the stored procedure.
Sample stored procedures are available in our "Amazon Redshift Utils" GitHub repository.
Here's a modification of your example:
-- DROP PROCEDURE insert_dc_table(VARCHAR,VARCHAR ,VARCHAR ,VARCHAR);
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE insert_dc_table(
p_tblname VARCHAR, p_name VARCHAR, p_datatype VARCHAR, p_datalen VARCHAR )
AS $$
DECLARE
rows INTEGER;
BEGIN
sql := 'INSERT INTO '||p_tblname||' (name, datatype, datalen)'
||' VALUES ('||p_name||','||p_datatype||','||p_datalen||');';
RAISE INFO 'Running SQL: %', sql;
EXECUTE sql;
GET DIAGNOSTICS rows := ROW_COUNT;
RAISE INFO 'Rows inserted = %', rows;
END
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
-- CALL insert_dc_table ('test_table', 'name', 'type', 'length');

How to execute a query which is stored in a table column PostgreSql?

I have a table column which contains following text data:
"drop table log_history_2_2015"
"drop table log_history_3_2015"
"drop table log_history_4_2015"
"drop table log_history_5_2015"
"drop table log_history_6_2015"
How can I execute them in single shot without looping through all these rows and executing them individually.
A more general solution is to use a DO block to execute the dynamic SQL:
DO
LANGUAGE plpgsql
$$
DECLARE
stmt text;
BEGIN
FOR stmt IN
SELECT statement FROM the_table
LOOP
EXECUTE stmt;
END LOOP;
END;
$$;
Note that this runs in a single transaction.
use SELECT string_agg(COLUMN_NAME,';')||chr(10) - it will give you single line to run

What am I doing wrong in this MySQL stored procedure?

I'm trying to use the following stored procedure.
DELIMITER $$
CREATE DEFINER=`root`#`localhost`
PROCEDURE `DeleteField`( IN _TABLENAME Text, IN _FIELDNAME text)
BEGIN
if exists (select * from information_schema.Columns
where table_name = _TABLENAME and column_name = _FIELDNAME)
then
alter table _TABLENAME drop column _FIELDNAME;
end if;
END
So I do Call('anytable','Anyfield') and I get the Error
Error Code:1146Table'Database._tablename'doesn't exist
This _tablename should be my parameter, not a string.
Plz some help before I hang myself, I love my life far too much.
I expect you will need to create a dynamic SQL query to do this.
An example of how to do this is at:
http://www.java2s.com/Code/SQL/Procedure-Function/Createadynamicstatementinaprocedure.htm
This would be the alter table replacement, though I have tested this.
DECLARE l_sql VARCHAR(4000);
SET l_sql=CONCAT_ws(' ',
'ALTER table ',_TABLENAME,' drop column ',_FIELDNAME);
SET #sql=l_sql;
PREPARE s1 FROM #sql;
EXECUTE s1;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE s1;

Oracle Stored Procedure with Alter command

I am trying to build an Oracle stored procedure which will accept a table name as a parameter. The procedure will then rebuild all indexes on the table.
My problem is I get an error while using the ALTER command from a stored procedure, as if PLSQL does not allow that command.
Use the execute immediate statement to execute DDL inside PL/SQL.
create procedure RebuildIndex(index_name varchar2) as
begin
execute immediate 'alter index ' || index_name || ' rebuild';
end;
I tested this code; it works.
Documentation.
Passing Schema Object Names As Parameters
Suppose you need a procedure that
accepts the name of any database
table, then drops that table from your
schema. You must build a string with a
statement that includes the object
names, then use EXECUTE IMMEDIATE to
execute the statement:
CREATE TABLE employees_temp AS SELECT last_name FROM employees;
CREATE PROCEDURE drop_table (table_name IN VARCHAR2) AS
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE ' || table_name;
END;
/
Use concatenation to build the string,
rather than trying to pass the table
name as a bind variable through the
USING clause.
In addition, if you need to call a
procedure whose name is unknown until
runtime, you can pass a parameter
identifying the procedure. For
example, the following procedure can
call another procedure (drop_table) by
specifying the procedure name when
executed.
CREATE PROCEDURE run_proc (proc_name IN VARCHAR2, table_name IN VARCHAR2) ASBEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CALL "' || proc_name || '" ( :proc_name )' using table_name;
END;
/
If you want to drop a table with the
drop_table procedure, you can run the
procedure as follows. Note that the
procedure name is capitalized.
CREATE TABLE employees_temp AS SELECT last_name FROM employees;
BEGIN
run_proc('DROP_TABLE', 'employees_temp');
END;
/
Here are a couple of possibilities. First, you would have to treat the SQL as dynamic SQL. Second, Oracle DDL statements cannot be run in a transaction (or, they terminate the current transaction and cannot themselves be rolled back). This may affect whether you can use them in stored procedures, or where you can use stored procedures that contain them.
If none of the above apply at all - there could easily be something else astray - I suggest posting some code.