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Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:40 am**

We are trying to use the Oracle ROWID pseudo column as the update key in an Oracle Enterprise Stage. The job does a lookup on the table which returns the ROWID of the matching record (if one exists).

We added ROWID to the column list of the Oracle stage, which is set as an Upsert with an Auto-Generated Update. ROWID is the only key column.

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Update (abridged):
T_EARNINGS_SNAPSHOT_update: Update prepare failed:
update is: UPDATE T_1 SET F_1 = :F_1, ... , WHERE (ROWID = :ROWID)

ORA-01745: invalid host/bind variable name

It seems as thought ROWID is an invalid bind variable name. We have change the name of the column linked to ROWID in the preceding Transformer, but no luck.

Is there a workaround to enable using ROWID as the update key in Oracle?

Thanks

Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:59 am**

use like this

(u can use any name u want)RROWID = :ROWID. Since ROWID is a key word in oracle you cannot use the sameone in the job. Change it to something in ur job and it will work.

Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:27 am**

kirankota79 wrote:use like this

(u can use any name u want)RROWID = :ROWID. Since ROWID is a key word in oracle you cannot use the sameone in the job. Change it to something in ur job and it will work.

Close, but what actually worked was changing the update to Manual SQL and "tricking" the SQL:

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WHERE (ROWID = ORCHESTRATE.IN_ROWID)

The column is named IN_ROWID, however I manually changed the SQL of the WHERE clause, using ROWID on the left side.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:10 am**

I hope to be helpful.
I retrieved ROWID to be used for the update by converting it using the Oracle function RowIDToChar(ROWID) assigning it to the metadata column called ID_ROW.
In the updating OCI, my custom statement is

UPDATE <table_name>
SET <one or more fields>
WHERE ROWID = CharToRowID(ORCHESTRATE.ID_ROW)

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:27 am**

kirankota79 wrote:use like this

(u can use any name u want)RROWID = :ROWID. Since ROWID is a key word in oracle you cannot use the sameone in the job. Change it to something in ur job and it will work.

U did not ask the question. U is one of our posters.

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Using Oracle ROWID as an Update key

Using Oracle ROWID as an Update key