Procedure output like a query in SQL developer?

Question

Hi!
How can a PL procedure create output like a query in SQL developer?
This block
begin
for record in (
select * from my_db
loop
dbms_output.put_line(record.name ' ' || record.address)
end loop;
end;
would print a of names and adresses in my_db. However, output sent to a query result window which would be the result of
select name,address from my_db;
How could I make the PL block behave the same way as the SQL query, i.e. present its output in a query result window?

Answer 1

Welcome to the forum!
Please provide your 4 digit Oracle version (result of SELECT * FROM V$VERSION) wheneve you ask a question.
Do you mean query a procedure as if it were a table?
You can do that with a pipelined function. Here is sample code you can test using the SCOTT schema
-- type to match emp record
create or replace type emp_scalar_type as object
  (EMPNO NUMBER(4) ,
   ENAME VARCHAR2(10),
   JOB VARCHAR2(9),
   MGR NUMBER(4),
   HIREDATE DATE,
   SAL NUMBER(7, 2),
   COMM NUMBER(7, 2),
   DEPTNO NUMBER(2)
-- table of emp records
create or replace type emp_table_type as table of emp_scalar_type
-- pipelined function
create or replace function get_emp( p_deptno in number )
  return emp_table_type
  PIPELINED
  as
   TYPE EmpCurTyp IS REF CURSOR RETURN emp%ROWTYPE;
    emp_cv EmpCurTyp;
    l_rec  emp%rowtype;
  begin
    open emp_cv for select * from emp where deptno = p_deptno;
    loop
      fetch emp_cv into l_rec;
      exit when (emp_cv%notfound);
      pipe row( emp_scalar_type( l_rec.empno, LOWER(l_rec.ename),
          l_rec.job, l_rec.mgr, l_rec.hiredate, l_rec.sal, l_rec.comm, l_rec.deptno ) );
    end loop;
    return;
  end;
  /Then you can query the function as if it were a table
select * from table(get_emp(20))Is that what you were looking for?