I have a table in my schema with brackets in its name (that's a legacy, cannot be modified):
CREATE TABLE "Addresses"
("ID" NUMBER(*,0) ,
"FullAddress" NVARCHAR2(100),
"HomeNum" NVARCHAR2(25),
"StreetName" NVARCHAR2(50)
)
So what I want is to have an ability to update this table via dynamic sql. That's how I attempt to do that:
DECLARE
sql_upd_statement VARCHAR2(500) := '';
table_name VARCHAR2(20) := '"Addresses"';
column_name VARCHAR2(20) := '"FullAddress"';
BEGIN
--no rows will be updated, just a sample
sql_upd_statement := 'UPDATE stm.:1 SET :2 = SUBSTR( :2, 2 ) WHERE :2 IS NOT NULL AND :2 IS NULL';
dbms_output.put_line( sql_upd_statement );
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE sql_upd_statement USING IN table_name, column_name;
END;
Please, tell me, is it possible to reach what I want via dynamic sql? Tried to set 'table_name', 'column_name' values without brackets - still no luck.
Schema object names cannot be passed using bind variables, they need to be literals.
sql_upd_statement := 'UPDATE stm.'||table_name||' SET '||column_name||' = SUBSTR( '||column_name||', 2 ) WHERE '||column_name||' IS NOT NULL AND '||column_name||' IS NULL';