How to find the no of rows updated

Question

Hello,
Is there any way to find the no of rows updated using a anony.. block
example
begin
update test set cost=3244 where dept='IT';
update test set cost=3434 where dept='retail';
end;
is there any way here.

Answer 1

user7351276 wrote:
yes I had tried this but have around 6000 statements like this.Are you looking to get 6000 counts? Then you'd need 6000 calls to SQL%ROWCOUNT.
Of course, I would be extremely suspicious of a process that had 6000 very similar SQL statements. It would almost certainly be preferable to do something like load a mapping table and to issue a single update, i.e.
CREATE TABLE mapping_table (
  cost number,
  dept varchar2(10)
INSERT INTO mapping_table( cost, dept ) VALUES( 3244, 'IT' );
INSERT INTO mapping_table( cost, dept ) VALUES( 3434, 'retail' );
UPDATE test t
   SET cost = (
    SELECT m.cost
      FROM mapping_table m
     WHERE m.dept = t.dept )
WHERE EXISTS (
    SELECT 1
      FROM mapping_table m
     WHERE m.dept = t.dept );
dbms_output.put_line( 'A total of ' || sql%rowcount || ' rows updated.' );Justin