Need help in plsql cursor

Question

Hi All,
I need to insert values into a table A of similar structure of other table B.(both havin same no of colums and same type).
Im using a cursor to fetch the values from the table B and in loop im fetching the values from the cursor to the temporary variable of the same type as the table B and im trying to insert values into table A using the following statement
insert into table A values(temp variable);
when i tried executing the procedure it is showing an error "Not enough values".
I not clear whether we can use the insert statement as above or is there any other way to achieve the same.
Please help.
Regards,
Mohan

Answer 1

You can use an INSERCT..SELECT instead of a PL/SQL procedure:
Insert into TableA(col1, col2, col3)
select column1, column2,column3
  from tableB;But if you do need (want) use PL/SQL write it this way:
declare
cursor cb is
select select column1, column2,column3
  from tableB;
begin
  for recB in cb loop
     Insert into TableA(col1, col2, col3)
        values (recB.column1,recB.column2,recB.column3);
  end loop;
end;Max
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