RE: PL/SQL Automatic BULK

Hi Bruce

>The presentation went into detail about not all queries will
>use array processing - only 'static sql cursor for loop' which
>in the presentation has the form
>
>for j in (select ... From tbl)
>Loop
>Yada yada;
>End loop;

This is true. In fact a PL/SQL block like the following doesn't use = prefetching.

declare
  cursor c is select * from all_tables;
  t all_tables%rowtype;
begin
  open c;
  loop=20
    fetch c into t;
    exit when c%notfound;
  end loop;
end;

HTH
Chris

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