Re: Stored Procedure Examples

Thanks man, I think that'll do it for me. As an OraNewbie, Oracle is a a bit confusing when you are used to doing something another way(in most's opionin here the 'wrong way') wish me luck!

"Daniel A. Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3B09F165.2D0ACA62_at_exesolutions.com...
> John Doe wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a few good examples of stored procedures that return
> > recordsets. I come from the MS world, and it looks as if Oracle handles
> > recordsets very differently as return values from stored procedures. I
 am
> > unable to locate any examples from Oracle, and a few from some
 publishers,
> > but the examples are lacking and sort 'Hello Worldish' I am looking
> > specifically for stored procedures that are accepting multiple values,
 but
> > do not require all of them, for example;
> >
> > I have a table of personnel. I want to be able to pass an employee id,
> > first name, and / or last name to one procedure that will find the
 personnel
> > that match one, two or three of the parameters I've passed it. In MS
 SQL I
> > would use the datalength() to see if the param is null and build a
 string
> > variable to exec(). It doesn't look like I can do this in Oracle. Help?
 I
> > am a total newbie with Oracle and need a little guidance.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> Look up REF CURSOR in a good PL/SQL book.
>
> And you are correct. Oracle handles just about everything differently from
 SQL
> Server. Like platform compatibility, operating system compatibility,
 stability,
> security, scalability, record locking, and performance.
>
> You can't get Oracle's advantages without Oracle.
>
> Daniel A. Morgan
>
Received on Tue May 22 2001 - 06:27:22 CDT