Re: Can a stored procedure return rows?

In article <313DCCEE.76B8_at_mmacmail.jccbi.gov>, Russell_Foster_at_mmacmail.jccbi.gov says...
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>Forgive the basic guestion....
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>Can a stored procedure in Oracle 7.1 NT return a result set?
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>I have used MS-SQL Server where a stored procedure can contain a select
>statement that can take parameters (much like a stored query in
>MS-Access).
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>I have tried to create the same type of procedure in Oracle and it says
 I
>must use a cursor to have a select. Ok, but how to get the result set
>back to the calling application?
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>Thanks for clearing this up for me.

No the current version of Oracle can not return a result set but the next version will. Received on Thu Mar 07 1996 - 00:00:00 CET