Awesome guys. All of your suggestions worked like a charm. Thanks man.
Cheers,
~ck
"sriram717" <sriram.vrinda_at_googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:cf323ed9-7c83-4bed-8f05-578118a1f8df_at_w73g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 15, 7:43 pm, "CK" <c_kettenb..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Oracle newbie question. I have a cursor with a group by clause. I can not
>> get the column alias to print. It says "sections" need to be defined.
>> Also I want this to only run against the first ten rows in the instructor
>> table. I tried it this way and it doesn't work. Any dieas?
>>
>> SET SERVEROUTPUT ON;
>> DECLARE
>> CURSOR c_instructor_info IS
>> SELECT first_name, last_name ,count(*) "sections"
>> FROM instructor i INNER JOIN section s ON i.instructor_id =
>> s.instructor_id
>> WHERE rownum <= 10
>> GROUP BY first_name, last_name;
>> rv_instructor c_instructor_info%ROWTYPE;
>> BEGIN
>> OPEN c_instructor_info;
>> LOOP
>> FETCH c_instructor_info INTO rv_instructor;
>> EXIT WHEN c_instructor_info%NOTFOUND;
>> DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Instructor: '||rv_instructor.first_name||'
>> '||rv_instructor.last_name||', teaches '||rv_instructor.sections||'
>> sections.');
>> END LOOP;
>> CLOSE c_instructor_info;
>> END;
>> /
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>> Cheers,
>> ~ck
>
>
>
> Can you try using cursor for loop
>
> for x in c_instructor_info loop
> DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Instructor: '||x.first_name||'
> '||x.last_name||', teaches '||x.sections||'
> sections.');
> end loop;
>
> Also use count(*) sections
>
> No =>" "
>
>
> Thanks
>
> www.ramsora.blogspot.com
>
>
Received on Thu Nov 15 2007 - 17:37:05 CST
