Using a Cursor in another cursor

Question

Hi Guys,
I have declared a cursor in one of my program unit in forms 6i form, like this:
Declare
Cursor C1 is select employee_id, emp_name from employees;
Begin
End;
Now i have to declare an other cursor that will be using the employee_id of the cursor C1.
for example :
Declare
Cursor C1 is select employee_id, emp_name from employees;
Cursor C2 is select C1.Employee_id, Employees.Age
from C1, employees;
Begin
End;
I dont think we can do this.... as it gives error in forms. What is the alternate how can i reference a cursor in another cursor??
Kindly Help Pliz, Imran Baig

Answer 1

Imran,
you can do this. The way you try to read from a cursor is not correct because you treat a cursor like a table which it isn't. You have to loop through the parent cursor and then within this loop, loop the second cursor. Please see the PLSQL documentation on OTN on how to do this (its not that big of a deal).
Frank