Re: Stored Procedure Examples

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.
>
>
>

you could try to set NULL as default for the parameters Received on Tue May 22 2001 - 06:00:34 CDT