Display select in a stored procedure

Question

Hello,
I have a select statement that I wanna print in a stored procedure. The only way is to create a cursor in the SP, which holds the result of the select, and then iterate through the lines and print each line using dbms_output.put_line?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can pass a ref cursor as an output parameter and print that.
SQL> create or replace procedure p (p_c out sys_refcursor) as
  2  begin
  3    open p_c for
  4      with test_data as
  5      (
  6      select 1 n, 'a' s from dual union all
  7      select 2 n, 'b' s from dual union all
  8      select 5 n, 'x' s from dual
  9      )
10      select n, s from test_data;
11  end;
12  /
Procedure created.
SQL> var c refcursor
SQL> exec p(:c)
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> print c
         N S
         1 a
         2 b
         5 x