ORA-00936 Missing Expression With SSIS Execute Script Task

  • Just wanted to post this in case someone else feels my pain.

    I've been working with Oracle and SSIS recently, I wrote a delete statement within Developer that worked perfectly, pasted the SQL into an SSIS Execute SQL Task and again

    it parsed successfully however once I ran the package it failed with the above error!

    After multiple re-writes of the query trying to figure out the Oracle syntax for this delete statement I finally found the following

    http://thefirstsql.com/2012/09/28/ora-00936/

    So credit where its due this saved me hours more work and debugging, apparently you cannot use -- to comment your scripts in SSIS when using Oracle

    I hope this helps someone else

    Andy

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    A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. Mitch Ratcliffe

  • Thank you for the posting Andy. I'm sure it will help a number of people down the road, Thank you for sharing.

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  • You save my day bro!!! Thanks

  • Glad it helped 😀

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    A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. Mitch Ratcliffe

  • You saved me with your observation on "--" for commenting. Thanks. Who would have thought?

  • Glad its helping people 🙂

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    A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. Mitch Ratcliffe

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