Re: Calling An Oracle Procedure

Davide Semprini wrote:

> Hi,
>
> you cannot exec a procedure from sqlplus that return OUT parameter.
> This is done for prevent using function or procedure with OUT or REFERENCE
> parameter
> inside SQL commands.
>
>
> D.

Actually you can:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE out_param (
mesg OUT VARCHAR2) IS

BEGIN
   mesg := 'Single OUT Parameter';
END out_param;
/

set serveroutput on

DECLARE
  s VARCHAR2(50);
BEGIN
   out_param(s);
   dbms_output.put_line(s);
END;
/

But I will acknowledge ... not directly.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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