ORA-24344: Success with Compilation Error

PL/SQL does not always tell you about compilation errors. Instead, it gives you a cryptic message such as "success with compilation error " or "procedure created with compilation errors".

Depending on the complexity of your code, you can skim it for obvious syntax errors.  If it's not immediately obvious what is wrong or missing, issue the following command:

 show errors procedure <procedure_name> ;

Alternatively, to see the most recent errors, type the following:

 SHOW ERRORS

or the abbreviated version works just as well:

SHO ERR

The location of the error given as part of the error message is not always accurate, but it is generally the best place to start your investigation.

The following example is an excerpt from  the Easy Oracle PL/SQL Programming book by John Garmany.

SQL> create or replace function broken  
2    (n_faren IN number)  
3  as  
4    n_cel number := 0;  
5  begin  
6    n_cel := (5/9)*(n_faren -32);  
7    return n_cel;  
8  end;  
9  / 

Warning: Function created with compilation errors.

SQL> show errors
 
Errors for FUNCTION BROKEN:
 
LINE/COL ERROR
-------- ------------------------------------------------
3/1      PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "AS" when expecting one of the following: return

5/1      PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "BEGIN" when expecting one of the following:  end function package

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