How to make a procedure from a select statement please.....

Question

Dear All,
i am new to oracle db, but i do have nice knowledge on sql in sql server, could you please help me.,,,,, in the below issue
i do have below query in oracle db just joining two views,
select docview.firstname as "First Name", docview.lastname as "Last Name", docview.mrn as "MRN", docview.physician as "Physician", docview.surgicalcong "Surgical Consent Missing", docview.admissionnotemissing "Admin Assessment Missing",
(case (docview.doctype) when 135 then 'Doctor Chart Checklist' else 'DS Chart Checklist' end) as doctypename,
docview.hpmissing "History & Physical Missing", docview.nursingassessment "Nursing Admission/Assessment", docview.anesthesiologymissing "Anesthe Consultation Missing", docview.medicalevalmissing "Medical Evaluation Missing", docview.Doctorlabresultmissing "Doctor Lab Results Missing", docview.outsidelabresultmissing "Outside Lab Results Missing", docview.chestxraymissing "Chest X-Ray Missing",
docview.ekgmissing "Ekg Missing", docview.cardioechomissing "Cardio Echo Missing",docview.stresstestmissing "Stress Test Missing", docview.pulmonaryfunctionmissing "Pulmonary Function Missing"
from DoctorMainView docview inner join DoctoSurgicalView surgicalView on docview.accountid= surgicalView.accountid and docview.mrn= surgicalView.mrn and docview.physician = surgicalView.physician
and docview.lastname=surgicalView.lastname
where docview.doctype in (23,61)
Order by docview.firstname
how can i make a procedure with below two steps,
1) load the result of above query to some temp table / or even a fixed table (which ever easier)
2) list all data from the temp table / fixed table created in first step
so in the final expecting result is
execute myprocnamehere -- will result same as running above query
please help me
thanks a ton in advance
i greatful to you all
Best Regards
Buzzi

Answer 1

Why would you want to extract all of the results from the database and write them to a table just so you could read them back out again? Wouldn't it be simpler just to return the results in one shot?
In general the procedure and call would look something like this:
SQL> create or replace procedure myprocnamehere
  2     ( p_results out sys_refcursor )
  3  as
  4  begin
  5     open p_results for
  6        select 'Results here' as results from dual;
  7  end;
  8  /
Procedure created.
SQL> var myresultset refcursor
SQL>
SQL> call myprocnamehere(:myresultset);
Call completed.
SQL> print :myresultset
RESULTS
Results here
1 row selected.Edited by: William Robertson on Feb 8, 2011 7:13 PM