How can I get position of an error in Oracle SQL query?

Question

How can I get position of an error in the query?

I need to get position in a query string which causes an error, like sqlplus does it:

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Answer 1

The SQLException has additional fields that hold the SQL error number (as in ORA-12899) and a message something like what you see as value too large for column "schmnm"."tbl"."data" (actual: 5, maximum: 3)

You have to parse the string if you want to truely pinpoint the error in the SQL statement.

See: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/SQLException.html

Read about the errorCode and SQLState properties within the exception.