CURSOR%NOTFOUND vs no more records to process;

Question

how can I differentiate between the above ? I have a cursor that selects data based on a condtion. If the condition is not met and I get CURSOR%NOTFOUND is true I want to handle this in one way while still being able to handle no more rows to process.
hope my question is clear
thanks
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aanton

Answer 1

That means, if cursor%rowcount > 0 then you have found at least one record. If there was no record found at all, cursor%rowcount is 0.
SQL> get t
  1  declare
  2    cursor c1 is select dummy from dual where 1 = 1;
  3    cursor c2 is select dummy from dual where 1 = 0;
  4    l_res  varchar2(10);
  5  begin
  6    open c1;
  7    fetch c1 into l_res;
  8    if c1%notfound then dbms_output.put_line ( 'c1: not found, c1%rowcount: ' || c1%rowcount );
  9    else                dbms_output.put_line ( 'c1: found,     c1%rowcount: ' || c1%rowcount );
10    end if;
11    fetch c1 into l_res;
12    if c1%notfound then dbms_output.put_line ( 'c1: not found, c1%rowcount: ' || c1%rowcount );
13    else                dbms_output.put_line ( 'c1: found,     c1%rowcount: ' || c1%rowcount );
14    end if;
15    close c1;
16    open c2;
17    fetch c2 into l_res;
18    if c2%notfound then dbms_output.put_line ( 'c2: not found, c2%rowcount: ' || c2%rowcount );
19    else                dbms_output.put_line ( 'c2: found,     c2%rowcount: ' || c2%rowcount );
20    end if;
21    close c2;
22* end;
SQL> /
c1: found,     c1%rowcount: 1
c1: not found, c1%rowcount: 1
c2: not found, c2%rowcount: 0
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>