WITH clause in PL/SQL

Question

Hi All,
Can WITH clause be used in PL/SQL, example, as in during creating a cursor or inserting into a table by selecting data from another table?
I received the following error while compiling a procedure which makes use of WITH.
105/6    PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "WITH" when expecting one of
         the following:
         ( select
and line 105 has only WITHDatabase : 10.2.0.2.0
Thanks,
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Answer 1

Hi Flake,
As far as I remember, you could not do this in 9i, dunno about 10.2.0.2
SQL> create table t (x number)
Table created.
SQL> declare
begin
   insert into t(x)
      with t2 as (select 2 x from dual)
      select x
        from t2;
   commit;
end;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select * from t
         X
         2
1 row selected.
SQL> select * from v$version where rownum = 1
BANNER                                                         
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
1 row selectedRegards
Peter