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Published: 26 Sep 2005
I'm getting an ORA-06550 error with submessage PLS-00103, which is objecting to the word 'INSERT' as it is expecting a ':
[email protected]%;.' I initially thought this would be a code issue but when I backed the database up and imported it to a standard Oracle-built database the problem went away. My question is are there any database configuration options that can cause an ORA-06550 error?
The ORA-6550 error is simply telling you which line of code is causing the error to be thrown. So this error is not the cause of your problem, just a pointer to the actual problem. The PLS-103 error is the true cause of your problem. The PLS-103 error is saying "Encountered the symbol "%s" when expecting one of the following." From your description, it looks like your PL/SQL block is expecting one of the following: ":
[email protected]%;" instead of INSERT. Typically, this means you did not include a semicolon to terminate the command before the INSERT statement.
Without seeing your exact PL/SQL code, I am not sure why your code worked with a new database. But there are no...
configuration options which can cause the ORA-6550 as this error is only in response to another error.
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