Re: Stored Procedures

I just wanted to say thanks to all for the help.

In article <92tlpb$839dh$1_at_ID-62141.news.dfncis.de>,   "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:
> Cursor in Oracle equals recordset in VB/sqlserver.
> If you are using VB, you should use Oracle Objects for Ole which is a
> DAO-like Oracle interface.
>
> Also, you should definitely NOT assume stored procedures in Oracle are
> equivalent to stored procedures in Sqlserver. They are not.
> To return record/resultsets
> refer to http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte topic resultsets.
>
> Reading the PL/SQL manual is *warmly* recommended, and/or the books on
> PL/SQL by Steven Feuerstein, published by O'Reilly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
> "Jeff" <jeff.cichocki_at_wgrfurniture.com> wrote in message
> news:92tf44$hlc$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> > I hate to sound like a rookie, but I am. I am new to the system
 and to
> > oracle. Permissions are not a problem. The query will only return
 one
> > row, but the others that I am working on will return more than one
> > row. I am not familiar with cursors at all in oracle, could you
 shed
> > some light on it for me (hopefully an example)? This procedure
 will be
> > called from inside a VB application I am writing if that helps.
> >
> > In article <3A52363B.634188CC_at_Unforgetable.com>,
> > Walter T Rejuney <BlueSax_at_Unforgetable.com> wrote:
> > > jscichocki_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Trying to create the following stored procedure. Everytime I
 try to
> > > > create it, it compiles with errors. I have validated the
 query. It
> > > > functions perfect. I have two other procedure that are giving
 me
 the
> > > > same grief (also select oriented as opposed to updates or
 deletes).
> > > >
> > > > CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE CUSTOM.MY_UPS_GREETED
> > > > (HOME_STORE IN VARCHAR2, TODAY IN VARCHAR2) AS
> > > > BEGIN
> > > > SELECT COUNT(EMP_CD) GREETED
> > > > FROM CUSTOM.UPS_OPPORTUNITY
> > > > WHERE HOME_STORE_CD = HOME_STORE
> > > > AND UP_DATE = TODAY
> > > > AND EMP_CD <> 'ZZZ';
> > > > END;
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your help.
> > > >
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> > >
> > > At the very minimum you need a host variable for the target of an
 INTO
> > > clause. Otherwise the cursor has no place to put the data. You
 probably
> > > also need some type of exception handler in case the query itself
> > > returns more than one row.
> > >
> > > Beyond that, we need to know exactly what compile errors you are
 getting.
> > > Do you have the proper permissions to create stored procedrues in
 the
> > > CUSTOM schema? Do you have proper grants to SELECT from the
> > > CUSTOM.UPS_OPPORTUNITY table? Is UP_DATE a varchar field where the
 date
> > > is in a particular format? If it is a DATE field then you need to
 perform
> > > a to_date() function on your TODAY variable and apply the
 appropriate
> > > date mask (although this is a run-time problem, not a compile
 problem)?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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