Create Table As within PL/SQL?

oracle, oracle11g, plsql

Solution

You should do the char-to-date conversion within the plsql-string that you excecute immediate.

The date you declared will be "back-cast" to a varchar2 in the concatenation and "re-cast" into a date again for the execution of the create table statement. And "all sorts of things" can happen in these two casts, so you want to make sure you're in control how the character-string is interpreted when cast to a date.

DECLARE
  station_id_ms1  NUMBER :=10347;
  realtime_start  VARCHAR2(100)   :='2012-01-01 00:00:00';
  realtime_end    VARCHAR2(100)   :='2012-07-01 00:00:00';
BEGIN
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE ('
  CREATE TABLE new_table_name
  AS
  SELECT
  ((realtime - to_date(''01-JAN-1970'',''DD-MON-YYYY'')) * (86400)) AS realtime_ms1,
  magnetic_ms_id,
  ADC_value_pp_2_mgntc_fld_amp(ch2_value,ch2_gain_value,magnetic_ms_id,2) AS B_x_ms1,
  ADC_value_pp_2_mgntc_fld_amp(ch1_value,ch1_gain_value,magnetic_ms_id,1) AS B_y_ms1,
  real_nanosecs2*4/3*360/20e6 AS phase_x_ms1,
  real_nanosecs1*4/3*360/20e6 AS phase_y_ms1
  FROM
      raw_mag
  WHERE
    magnetic_ms_id    = '||station_id_ms1||'
  AND realtime        > to_date(''' || realtime_start || ''', ''YYYY-DD-MM HH24:MI:SS'')
  AND realtime        < to_date(''' || realtime_end   || ''', ''YYYY-DD-MM HH24:MI:SS'')
  AND ch1_tune_value  = 0
  AND realtime        < pkg_timezone.change_timezone(gettime,''CET'',''UTC'')
  ');  
END;

Problem

Original source