Is there any provision to view the selected record using SYS_REFCURSOR?

Question

hi friends ,
I was using SQL Server . now i am shifting to Oracle . so we are changing the Stored Procedures in SQLServer to Oracle SP's. I have given the structure of procedure given below . If possible , i want to see the output of select statement in the TOAD editor . If any body knows please help me
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE PS_AON
P_STATUS OUT VARCHAR2,
P_CUR OUT SYS_REFCURSOR
AS
BEGIN
OPEN P_CUR FOR
          select colum1,column2,column3 from Table 1;
EXCEPTION
               WHEN OTHERS THEN
               P_STATUS:=SQLERRM;
END;
This is one of the model of stored procedures i am using . And the editor i am using is TOAD 7.3.0 and oracle 9i. Is there any provision to view the selected records by running this procedure in TOAD editor
thanks & regards

Answer 1

(assuming you have relatively recent version of TOAD).
Write a small block to call the procedure (or use Toad's 'execute procedure' option) as in the example below. Note the ':' in front of 'v_cur_out'. When you run the block, TOAD will prompt you for a value / datatype for 'v_cur_out'. Ignore the value, set the datatype to 'Cursor' and click OK. The resultset (if any) will be displayed in the Data Grid window below.
DECLARE
   v_status VARCHAR2 (32767);
BEGIN
   ps_aon (v_status, :v_cur_out);
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('v_status => ' || v_status);
END;
/