New to pl/sql and need help with procedure

Hello there, I got two tables STAFF and BONUS which are not related by any constraints
STAFF
ID_NUMBER HIREDATE SALARY BONUS
100020 12-MAY-03 13600
100021 04-NOV-01 30000
100022 08-APR-02 28000
100023 08-APR-02 24000
BONUS
PERCENTAGE MORE_THAN_YEARS
0.1 3
0.15 5
0.3 7
0.45 9
0.5 12
I am trying to create a procedure that would calculate bonus based on years of employment according to bonus table.
If employees sysdate -hiredate is greater than 5, he would get salary*0.15%....
I created this procedure, but I got stuck here.
I calculated the length of employment for every soldier using cursor in a loop, but I don't know how to get values from bonus table and connect them together.
Please help me!
create or replace
procedure bonus_staff
as
cursor c1 is select *from staff;
bon real;
begin
FOR ITEM IN C1
LOOP
bon := FLOOR(months_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,ITEM.hiredate)/12)*
update staff
set bonus = bon
where id_number = ITEM.id_number;
exit when c1%notfound;
end loop;
end;
Thanks in advance..

update staff
set bonus = (select percentage
from bonus
where more_than_years = (select max(more_than_years)
from bonus
where more_than_years <= FLOOR(months_BETWEEN(SYSDATE,staff.hiredate)/12)
You can do this in pure SQL, which operates on a set, so no PL/SQL is required.
Sybrand Bakker
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    That same principle applies to keyboards from what I've seen. I know there are some keyboards where I can use the control button and the alt button at the same time, and some keyboard I can't use. I can't blame the game, because there ARE keyboards that work the way I want it to. And I'm not talking about keyboard shortcuts. Pressing Control+Alt isn't a shortcut in a game, just two different commands. Like one is jump, one is attack. In the game you can Jump and Attack with some keyboards, some keyboards only let you jump or attack.
    Another example is if I put my jump key on the letter "a" and if I hold a, I jump over and over until I let go. but if I put jump to my space bar, I jump once then stop. For some reason it won't repeat keys while in a game. Same goes for other buttons, ctrl, shift, and alt.
    Does that make things a little more clear?
    but what I'm going to do is try my mac keyboard on a PC and see if it has the same limitations.
    If Parallels is crashing either you have a faulty installation, your OS X installation is corrupted, or you have not allocated sufficient RAM for the VM. You need at least 2 GBs of installed RAM to use virtualization software and should allocate at least 384 MBs or RAM to Windows XP and 512 MBs to Vista. If you have only 1 GB of RAM installed your system won't be very stable when you try to run Parallels with Windows on 384 or 512 MBs of RAM.
    I have the newest 15 inch which has gigs. And I've tried setting Parallels to both 1 and 512 (windows xp) and I worded the problem wrong. Parallels doesnt crash, parallels runs fine. What happens is Windows XP gets the blue screen of death whenever I try to install a usb device. Since I can't find a logitech keyboard that has drivers/software for a mac, I tried using a Windows one and tried installing it on my XP... and thats when I got the BSOD
    Parallels uses all the native Mac hardware via the virtualization software. No special Mac drivers are required nor special Windows drivers.
    If you cannot run a Windows program in Parallels it's not a problem with OS X. Complain to Parallels.
    It's not that a program isn't running. It's running fine, it's just my FPS gets really low. What I'm trying to figure out is if my graphics card isn't good enough in general, or if it's not good enough to handle parallels and osx and a game with a video capture all at once.
    Boot Camp runs Windows natively on the hardware just as if you were using any other dedicated Windows hardware. "Will I have nothing to worry about?" I don't know. Boot Camp provides the necessary Windows drivers for all currently produced Intel Macs. You can install Windows XP with Service Pak 2 or Vista. Read the Boot Camp documentation to find out more.
    Well I meant will I have nothing to worry about as in, will my graphics card be as effective on my bootcamped win XP as it would be if it was a native XP laptop, or will it be slightly less effective since it was based for a mac intel computer... does that make sense or do I need to reword it?

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