Not all variables bound ORA-01008: not all variables bound error

Question

I am using Oracle SQL developer. I am running a query on employees table which is by default, having columns like first_name, last_name, employee_id, email, phone_no, hire_date, job_id, salary, commission_pct, manager_id, department_id.

I am writting a report that displays the last name and salary of employees who earn more than an amount that the user specifies after a prompt. If you enter 12000, it should display all employees earning more than 12000. Eg: Salary_value: 12000.

My report is like this

select last_name, salary
from employees
where employees.salary>&sal;

But I am getting an error like this

ORA-01008: not all variables bound
01008. 00000 - "not all variables bound"
*Cause:
*Action:
Vendor code 1008

Clearly there is nothing in the cause section. I need help please. Thanks in advance.

BUT I can succesfully run it from Sql plus command line utility as well as I can run it as a *.sql file. But It is not working in case of a report. Why is this happening?

Answer 1

Maybe you have set define to off.

set define off
select last_name, salary from employees where employees.salary>&sal;

Error starting at line : 2 in command -
select last_name, salary from employees where employees.salary>&sal
Error at Command Line : 2 Column : 31
Error report -
SQL Error: ORA-01008: not all variables bound
01008. 00000 -  "not all variables bound"
*Cause:    
*Action:

Set it to on (which is the default value by the way):

set define on
select last_name, salary from employees where employees.salary>&sal;

With define set to on, SQL Developer will prompt for a value for the variable &sal.