Error while creating procedure

Question

i am creating the procedure which is having year as arguemnt (i am couting total number of user in year)
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sample1 (a_year varchar2(4)) IS
BEGIN
select COUNT(*) Total_Count
from users a
where a.create_dt >= TO_DATE('01-JAN-'a_year, 'dd-mon-yyyy' )
and a.create_dt <= TO_DATE('31-DEC'a_year, 'dd-mon-yyyy' );
END sample1;

Answer 1

if i am using cursor like below
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sample1 (a_year char,p_Parent_RS       IN OUT t_CursorPtr) IS
TYPE t_CursorPtr           IS REF CURSOR;
BEGIN
OPEN p_Parent_RS FOR
select 'NEW ITEMS CREATED' Column_Name,  COUNT(*) Total_Count
from attribs a
where a.create_dt >= TO_DATE('01-JAN-'||a_year, 'dd-mon-yyyy' )
and a.create_dt <= TO_DATE('31-DEC-'||a_year, 'dd-mon-yyyy' )
union all
-- new locations count
select 'NEW LOCATION COUNT' Column_Name,  COUNT(*) Total_Count
from location a
where a.create_dt >= TO_DATE('01-JAN-'||a_year, 'dd-mon-yyyy' )
and a.create_dt <= TO_DATE('31-DEC-'||a_year, 'dd-mon-yyyy' )
union all
-- new interface nodes
select 'NEW INTERFACE NODE' Column_Name,  COUNT(*) Total_Count
from interface_node a
where A.create_dt >= TO_DATE('01-JAN-'||a_year, 'dd-mon-yyyy' )
and a.create_dt <= TO_DATE('31-DEC-'||a_year, 'dd-mon-yyyy' )
union all
-- # of items with attributes
select 'ITEMS WITH ATTRIBUTE' Column_Name,  COUNT(*) Total_Count 
from attribs
where label_name_code not like '0'
--and component_code not like '0'
and item_act_inact_status = 'A'
and product_type_code IN ('FG','SF','BULK','SAM')
union all
-- total # of users
select 'TOTAL NUMBER OF USER' Column_Name,  COUNT(*) Total_Count
from users a
where a.stat_code = 'A';
END sample1;i am getting below error
PLS-00201: identifier 'T_CURSORPTR' must be declared