[Insert in to table with the values of function]

Question

Hi,
I was written the following procedure in my DB to get the values of bonuses and id from the table employee_290512
create or replace procedure ins_desc is
cursor i1 is
select id, decode (description,'Tester',salary*15,'Programmer',salary*30,'Manager',salary*30) bonus from employee_290512;
v_id employee_290512.id%type;
v_bonus employee_290512.salary%type;
Begin
open i1;
loop
fetch i1 into v_id,v_bonus;
exit when i1% notfound;
dbms_output.put_line (v_id || ' '||v_bonus);
end loop;
close i1;
end;
I written the following function by calling the above procedure inside the function to achieve the result like this
create or replace function bon_chk return number
is
v_result number;
begin
ins_desc;
return v_result;
end;
I written the above two stuffs to insert the output values of function in to the table called bonuses_proc having the values (id,bonus)
To achieve the above I executed the following query
insert into bonuses_proc (employee_id,bonus) select bon_chk from dual;
During the above it throws the error ORA-00947: not enough values
i understand the function return the v_result as onve value so it throws the above error
Could any one please clarify me on this?
Regards
Thelak
Edited by: thelakbe on Jun 5, 2012 12:00 PM
Edited by: thelakbe on Jun 5, 2012 12:01 PM
Edited by: thelakbe on Jun 5, 2012 12:01 PM

Answer 1

Hi,
yes we can do like above too, but i dont want to give the insert permission to the table to all the user,so is there any possiblities do it with ouput of function?If you would use the output of the function (if it had two values) you also need to do the insert as you tried to do in the initial post:
insert into bonuses_proc (employee_id,bonus) select bon_chk from dual;If you do not want insert permisions on a table for a user then you can put the whole SQL in a procedure in a schema with insert permisions and give the user exec rigth to that procedure.
The procedure can be like:
create or replace
procedure insert_bonus authid definer as
begin
insert into bonuses_proc (employee_id,bonus)
SELECT
  id
  ,DECODE (description, 'Tester', salary*15, 'Programmer', salary*30, 'Manager', salary*30) bonus
FROM
  employee_290512;
end;regards,
Peter