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ORA-17003: Invalid column index

You are trying to access a column that is not in the select list.

Probably you did not select enough values in the SELECT statement.

eg:


    String cs;
    cs = readEntry ("connectionstring (machine:port:sid) : "); 

    String user;
    user = readEntry ("user: "); 

    String pw;
    pw = readEntry ("Password: "); 

    // connect to the database
    final Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:oracle:thin:@"+cs, user, pw );

    Statement statement = conn.createStatement();

    ResultSet resultset = statement.executeQuery( "select to_char(sysdate, 'dd mon yyyy') from dual " );
      if ( resultset.next() ) {
        System.out.println( "Date: "+resultset.getString( 2 ));
      }
    resultset.close();
    statement.close();
    conn.close();

In the previous example we only have 1 column in the select list ( a date), but we try to access column 2 [getString(2)], which obviously fails as it does not exists in the resultset.

Either add the column to the select list or change the call to getInt/String/...
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reply On 06-JAN-2009 17:37:10 D S V Raman asked: Invalied Column Index Error
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hi..
i'm raman..
while i'm executing this statement in jsp page it is getting an exception saying "INvalied Column Index"
my table in data base contains
uname vrachar2
pwd varchar2
admin int
full_name varchar2

while i execute this update statement i'm getting exception
Connection con = null;
PreparedStatement ps = null;
con = Database.getConnection();
ps=con.prepareStatement("update users set uname=?,pwd=?,admin=?,full_name=? where uname =?");
ps.setString(1,duser);
ps.setString(2,npwd);
ps.setInt(3,ad);
ps.setString(4,fnm);
ps.setString(5,duser);

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