SQL & PL/SQL

Hi all,

I'm having a bit of an issue using the dbms_metadata package. I've never used it so possibly I'm unaware of something basic.

I'm getting diferent results in my production and dev servers, both of which have this configuration:

Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production

I am trying to replicate the DDL for one particular schema and so tried the following:

SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLE',u.table_name)
  2  from user_tables u
  3  where rownum = 1;
ERROR:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
LPX-00210: expected '<' instead of 'n'
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_XML", line 0
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA_INT", line 3698
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA_INT", line 4553
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 458
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 615
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1221
ORA-06512: at line 1

I tried again with hard-coding a table name and got these very scary results:

SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLE','CAMPAIGN_LOOKUP','XMLUSER') FROM DUAL;
ERROR:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-31605: the following was returned from LpxXSLResetAllVars in routine
kuxslResetParams:
LPX-1: NULL pointer
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_XML", line 0
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA_INT", line 3722
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA_INT", line 4553
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 458
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 615
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1221
ORA-06512: at line 1

in the above, I am logging in as the XMLUSER user and so owns the table campaign_lookup.

Next I tried getting the DDL for another schema that while still logged in as xmluser.
I'm certain that I have access read/write from the tclient table but got these results:
possibly the dbms_metadata package requires you to be loged in as the schema owner though
the oracle documentation link gives me a 404 error at the moment so I can't check.

SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLE','TCLIENT','TRAVEL') from dual;
ERROR:
ORA-31603: object "TCLIENT" of type TABLE not found in schema "TRAVEL"
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_ERROR", line 105
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 628
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1221
ORA-06512: at line 1

So now I log into production:

SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLE',u.table_name)
  2      from user_tables u
  3      where rownum = 1;

DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE',
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  CREATE TABLE "XMLUSER"."CAMPAIGN_LOOKUP"
   (    "SCHEME_ID" VARCHAR2(30),
        "S
etc...

but still can't extract DDL for another schema.

my main issue is, I can't log into production (or our implementation environment) as the schema
I want to extract due to big nasty DBAs locking it all down. however I can in dev, but get the above errors.

thoughts anyone?