Re: Dynamic SQL in in 7.3.4

In article <9ojq6p$98b$1_at_newstest.laserlink.net>, "Ravi says...
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>Hi all,
> I am having a peculiar problem. I am unable to use a ref cursor variable
>(IN OUT) type in a pl/sql procedure which uses dynamic sql Has anyone done
>this before.
> Any examples would be appreciated.
>Thanks
>Ravi A
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>

This is a new feature of Oracle8i release 1 (815) and up only.

Before that (734) it is physically impossible to dynamically open a ref cursor.

You can use dbms_sql for this but it will be a dbms_sql cursor -- not a ref cursor.

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