Re: Getting result sets from stored procedures

A copy of this was sent to "Bob Kline" <bobklin_at_idt.net> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:12:43 -0400, you wrote:

>In the Sybase world there is very elegant support for returning a result set
>from a stored procedure. Any select statement in the procedure is available
>to the client as a result set, which is very easy to grab from ODBC or
>Perl's DBI. The closest I've been able to find in the Oracle world is the
>REF CURSOR, but it appears that the REF CURSOR needs to be set up as one of
>the parameters for the stored procedure. I haven't been able to find any
>way to call such a stored procedure from ODBC or DBI and get to the result
>set. Anyone have any tips on where to look?
>
>Thanks,
>Bob Kline
>bkline_at_rksystems.com
>
>

I have some examples at the URL in my signature below.

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Opinions are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of Oracle Corporation Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 06:49:28 CDT