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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: ref_cursor was (Sybase vs Oracle)?
A copy of this was sent to Joe & Anne Buhl <jabuhl_at_worldnet.att.net> (if that email address didn't require changing) On 27 Nov 1998 04:48:47 GMT, you wrote:
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>> False - use REF CURSORs for this excat reason. Available since 7.3.
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>How exactly are the ref cursors implemented?
as cursors, they are IN OUT parameters to procedures or return values from funtions.
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>I have not seen any third party tools or even Oracle tools that take advantage
>of ref_cursors. for instance in dbArtisan and Sybase you can excute a proc and
>your results are there. You do that in Oracle from db artisan and ...........
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Some Oracle tools:
and there are more in both catagories. Its a feature that has been part of
Oracle since 7.2 -- sorry the exact tool you are using did not choose to support
it. Its very each to use.
>joe
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Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
Oracle Government
Herndon VA
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