Re: Oracle stored procs

In article <01bc8596$de5a26d0$c47b6496_at_kosh>, dwetzel1_at_rodalepress.com says...
>
>Okay, I'm confused... I want to write a stored proc that does something
>similar to this:
>
>create proc show_dept(dept_id number)
>is
>begin
> select emp, job, sal
> from emp
> where deptno= dept_id;
>end;
>
>In other words, I want to run a report that returns any number of rows
>based on inputted data.
>
>It's beginning to look to me like Oracle can only handle sp's that deal
>with one and only one row. That can't be right, I must be doing something
>wrong.
>

I have a stored procedure that fetches in a loop and fills in several PL/SQL tables that I pass back as parameters. 7.3 allows you to use PL/SQL tables of records which might be just what you need. If your stored procedures get called by ProC you can not use tables of records. That's why I return several PL/SQL tables. An excellent source for this is Steven Feuerstein's book Oracle PL/SQL Programming published by O'Reilly. Also see chapter 4 in Oracle's PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference.

Good Luck,
Rona Crystal

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