How to get the rowid and the entire record selected in PLSQL?

Question

The code given below does not work.
You cannot select the record and the rowid using a cursor in one-shot.
But you could do that in a direct SELECT in "SQL Plus" when you select records for display. Is this a bug in ORACLE PLSQL? Or is there another way to do this?
DECLARE
objid_ VARCHAR2(200);
rec_ xxx_tab%ROWTYPE;
CURSOR get_rec IS
SELECT t.*, t.rowid
FROM xxx_tab t;
BEGIN
OPEN get_rec;
FETCH get_rec INTO rec_, objid_;
CLOSE get_rec;
END;
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Answer 1

You cannot fetch into both a record type and a variable. You have a few options, you can declare the record a s a rowtype of the cursor like this:
DECLARE
   CURSOR c IS
      SELECT t.*, rowid rid
      FROM t;
   l_rec c%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
   OPEN c;
   FETCH c INTO l_rec;
   CLOSE c;
END;You could use an implicit cursor and let Oracle deal with the record type internally (not to mention the open fetch and close) like this:
BEGIN
   FOR rec in (SELECT t.*, rowid rid FROM t) LOOP
      do_stuff with rec.col_name
   END LOOP;
END;Note that in both of these you must alias the rowid column to some other name, you could also manually construct the record type to match the table and add a column od ROWID datatype to hold the rowid.
Finally, I think, depending on what you are actually going to do with the rowid, and how you feel about having records locked, you could look at declaring the cursor as FOR UPDATE and get rhe rowid for free.. This would be most appropriate if you are planning to update the table in the cursor (a bad practce by the way). Something like:
DECLARE
   l_rec t%ROWTYPE;
   CURSOR c IS
      SELECT t.*, rowid
      FROM t;
BEGIN
   OPEN c;
   FETCH c INTO l_rec;
   do_whatever with l_rec
   UPDATE t
   SET whatever
   WHERE current of c;
END;John