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Re: Beginner's question on Oracle stored procedure/function---HELP!!

From: Vincent Ventrone <vav_at_mitre.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:21:11 -0500
Message-ID: <38483447.A50591D2@mitre.org>

Dana Jian wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a new user of PL/SQL in Oracle8, I have two questions as following:
>
> 1) Can function in Oracle server return more than one value? how?
>

No -- functions return zero or one value. That's it...
>
> 2) Can function in Oracle server return a recordset--multiple rows with
> multiple columns? How??

Yes -- with an array. Not familiar with the details -- try looking up "array processing"
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Received on Fri Dec 03 1999 - 15:21:11 CST

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