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E. ScioreUnderstanding Oracle APEX 20 Application Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6165-1_12

12. Dynamic SQL

Edward Sciore1 
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Newton Center, MA, USA
 

In this book, you have seen many ways to use session state values to customize a page. For example, the SQL source query of a report is a good candidate for customization, as is an SQL statement in a process that accesses the database. Much of this customization involves bound variable references in SQL statements.

However, there are limits to what can be customized. A reference to a session state variable can replace a constant in the SQL query, but it is not allowed to replace a table name or a column name. This chapter examines a technique called dynamic SQL, which ...

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