Avoid Temp Tables

Question

Hi All, We are in process of getting ride of the TEmproary tables. As usual DBAS are giving hard time.
Please see these After paramters form Trigger. It creates atable TEMP_SERVICES .Can I avoid the table.
Can I do the calcuations in PL/sql.
Please help
BEGIN
DECLARE
WS_SERVICE VARCHAR2(7) := NULL;
WS_SSN VARCHAR2(9) := NULL;
C_SERVICE VARCHAR2(7) := NULL;
C_SSN VARCHAR2(9) := NULL;
CURSOR INPUT_SERVICES IS
          SELECT SERVICE, SSN FROM SERVICES
          WHERE to_char(PROVIDER) like :up_provider          
          ORDER BY 1,2;
input_rec input_services%ROWTYPE;
begin
     SRW.DO_SQL('create table temp_services
          ( service varchar2(7),
          ssn varchar2(9))');
     OPEN INPUT_SERVICES;
          LOOP
               FETCH INPUT_SERVICES INTO INPUT_REC;
               EXIT WHEN INPUT_SERVICES%NOTFOUND;
          C_SERVICE := INPUT_REC.SERVICE;
          C_SSN := INPUT_REC.SSN;
          IF INPUT_SERVICES%ROWCOUNT=1 THEN
                    WS_SERVICE := C_SERVICE;
                    WS_SSN := C_SSN;
          ELSIF C_SERVICE != WS_SERVICE THEN
               SRW.DO_SQL('INSERT INTO TEMP_SERVICES
VALUES('''||WS_SERVICE||''','''||WS_SSN||''')');
                         SRW.DO_SQL('COMMIT');
                    WS_SERVICE := C_SERVICE;
                    WS_SSN := C_SSN;
          ELSIF C_SSN != WS_SSN THEN
               SRW.DO_SQL('INSERT INTO TEMP_SERVICES
     VALUES('''||WS_SERVICE||''','''||WS_SSN||''')');
                         SRW.DO_SQL('COMMIT');
               WS_SERVICE := C_SERVICE;
               WS_SSN := C_SSN;
          END IF;
     END LOOP;
          CLOSE INPUT_SERVICES;
          SRW.DO_SQL('INSERT INTO TEMP_SERVICES
VALUES('''||WS_SERVICE||''','''||WS_SSN||''')');
          SRW.DO_SQL('COMMIT');
END;
return (TRUE);
end;
Please help

Answer 1

See:
"Using a Collection Instead of a Temporary Table in Complex Reports"
http://www.quest-pipelines.com/pipelines/plsql/tips03.htm#NOVEMBER
Regards,
Zlatko Sirotic