Cursor scope : cursor is not recognising in for loop.

Question

CREATE or REPLACE PROCEDURE TEST(
date3 IN DATE,
Out_Entity OUT Test1.RefCsr
AS
FirstNameListTable LIST_TABLE;
FinalFirstNameListTable LIST_TABLE := LIST_TABLE();
firstName employee.first_name%TYPE;
date1 employee.start_date%TYPE;
date2 employee.start_date%TYPE;
CURSOR main_cur
   IS
      WITH include_rec
        AS (select first_name,count(1) over (partition by first_name) firstNameCount,start_date  from employee where city='Vancouver')
SELECT distinct first_name
        FROM include_rec
       WHERE firstNameCount>500;
BEGIN
    OPEN main_cur;
    FETCH main_cur BULK COLLECT INTO FirstNameListTable;
    CLOSE main_cur;
FOR i IN FirstNameListTable.FIRST .. FirstNameListTable.LAST
    LOOP
firstName:=FirstNameListTable(i);
SELECT min(start_date),max(start_date) into date1,date2 FROM include_rec where first_name=firstName;
--business logic
    END LOOP;
OPEN Out_Entity FOR SELECT * FROM TABLE(
                                                CAST (
                                                        FinalFirstNameListTable AS LIST_TABLE
                                        ) Nos;
END;
create or replace TYPE "LIST_TABLE" as table of varchar2(20);
SELECT min(start_date),max(start_date) into date1,date2 FROM include_rec where first_name=firstName;In above query, getting error:table or view doesnt exit. When i replaced "include_rec" with "employee",error is resolved.But i have to use include_rec,Because i dont want to query on lage table employee, i know my final query output will be subset of include_rec table.
Means it is clear that cursor is not recognising in for loop and how can i resolve it?

Answer 1

Can u please tell me code about "creating permanent object or view." in this context. I don't really want to. This is not a route you should be encouraged to go down.
A view is the correct mechanism for reusing SQL. So I just mean:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW include_rec AS
select first_name,count(1) over (partition by first_name) firstNameCount,start_date  from employee where city='Vancouver';Then you get rid of "WITH include_rec AS ()..." from both statements.
But this is pants.
Surely all this should just be:
CREATE or REPLACE PROCEDURE TEST (
  date3 IN DATE,
  Out_Entity OUT Test1.RefCsr
AS
BEGIN
  OPEN Out_Entity FOR
    SELECT first_name, count(*), min(start_date), max(start_date)
    FROM   include_rec
    WHERE  employee
    GROUP BY first_name
    HAVING COUNT(*) > 500;
END;
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