Re: **PLEASE HELP** Oracle Stored Procedures question

Delphi 3.0 with BDE 4.0 does have a CURSOR type that would allow you to do this. Time to upgrade!

-Randy

P.S. Borland Tech Support is currently working on an example that should be on their web site soon(SQL Links area).

NNOOR <Nnoor_at_cris.com> wrote in article
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> I have many complex queries in my client app which I would like to
> have stored on the server side to cut down on many time/resource
> intensive variables.
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> All of these queries return multiple rows as result set.
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> I am using Delphi 2.0 C/S and Oracle WGS 7.3 (NT v4.0).
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> I can't seem to figure out how to return a result set from the
> Oracle stored procedures. Oracle doesn't allow use of SELECT on
> the stored procs. Delphi does not have a CURSOR data type that I
> could use as an OUT parameter. So, I am lost here.
>
> I played with CURSOR and FETCH commands in the PL/SQL but it seems
> that Oracle fetches all of the rows before returing from the proc
> so I only get the values of the last row back in the calling routine.
>
> I will greatly appreciate any help on the topic. Oracle has a way of
> executing a SELECT and returning the result set thru a cursor, but
> Delphi does not have a CURSOR data type so I can't pass a variable as
> OUT or IN OUT to receive this cursor handle.
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> Regards,
> --nasir (nnoor_at_cris.com)
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  Received on Sun Jun 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT