Re: executing dynamic sql statements in a PL/SQL procedure

Hi.

 If you are using Oracle 8i then you can do it with native dynamic SQL.

 HTH. Michael.

In article <889j0t$u96$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   slices17_at_kreative.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a PL/SQL procedure. In the procedure, I need to compose
a
> SQL statement at runtime and execute it.
>
> I know that one way to do this is to use the dbms_sql package's
> procedures to open a cursor, parse the sql statement and then execute
> the statement and close the cursor. But it seems a lot of work just
to
> execute an update statement.
>
> Does anyone know of a quicker way to execute an SQL statement that is
> stored in a string?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ray
>
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