Re: PL/SQL newbie question

Rick Silvers wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am new to PL/SQL, come from a COBOL/DB2/iSeries world. I have a question
> about Packages, Procedures.
> I want to create a Package, that will have several Procedures and will have
> a CURSOR declared in the Package
> which can be opened and fetched and passed to all the procedures in the
> package. The select statement in the cursor
> returns 50 rows. I need to be able to loop thru and pass each fetched row to
> the procedures in the Package.
>
> Can someone share an example on how to do this ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Silvers

Assuming Oracle 9i or later you should be using bulk collection ... not a cursor.

Look at the links suggested by IANAL_VISTA but also look at: http://www.psoug.org
click on Morgan's Library
click on Bulk Binding

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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