ORA-20001, ORA-1446 Happens When Try to Select ROWID Using UNION ALL　 (Doc ID 2323557.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

 In an APEX interactive report (IR), if describe SQL including UNION ALL in the region/source field, the following error occurs when executed:

SELECT ROWID, MISE_C FROM TABLE_A WHERE MISE_C = 'aaaa'
UNION ALL
SELECT ROWID, MISE_C FROM TABLE_A WHERE MISE_C = 'bbbb'

When executed, the following error occurred.

ORA-20001: get_dbms_sql_cursor error ORA-1446: cannot select ROWID from, or
sample, a view with DISTINCT, GROUP BY, etc.

Steps to Reproduce with a SAMPLE table

From the application:
 1. Create page
 2. Select the report and press the Next button
 3. Select interactive report and press next button
 4. Leave the default value and press the Next button
 5. Leave the default value (do not use tab), press the next button
 6. In the input column of the SQL SELECT statement, write the SELECT statement as described previously, and press the next button.
     e.g using table TABLE_A

 SELECT ROWID, <COLUMN_NAME> FROM <TABLE_A> WHERE <COLUMN_NAME> = '10'
 UNION ALL
 SELECT ROWID, <COLUMN_NAME> FROM <TABLE_A> WHERE <COLUMN_NAME> = '30'

7. When running above page, the error occurs:

 ORA-20001: get_dbms_sql_cursor error ORA-1446: cannot select ROWID from, or
 sample, a view with DISTINCT, GROUP BY, etc.

Cause

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