Display results of SQL in an HTML Block

Question

Hi there
I want to display the results of some SQL within an HTML Block. To do this I have created a hidden page item which I can then reference within the HTML Block (ie: &mypageitem.)
However I want to run a process that assigns that page item the results of a simple SQL query that returns multiple rows. If I try to do that SQL within the page item itself it only assumes the value of the first row returned. I tried to do it within a pl/sql process and looping through a cursor and assigning my page item each row of the cursor. That didnt work because I couldnt insert an HTML BR within the page item and it only seemed to return one row.
Am I going about this the wrong way? Thanks in advance for any help.
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Answer 1

Hi,
Firstly, you should declare a VARCHAR2 variable to hold the output. Secondly, when looping through the data, you should append each row's data to this string. Each line can be terminated using CHR(13) to get the new line. Finally, you set the field's value to the variable:
DECLARE
vOutput VARCHAR2(4000);
cursor definition etc
BEGIN
vOutput := '';
open the cursor...;
LOOP
vOutput := vOutput || rowdata || CHR(13);
END LOOP;
:mypageitem := vOutput;
END;
Regards
Andy