Procedure for select command

Question

Can any one please tell me how to create a procedure for this query "Select * from <table_name>"?
I have tried in oracal 10g its throws the error."PLS-00428: an INTO clause is expected in this SELECT statement".
In sql server we can go and directly put the select statement in procedure. but i dont know why it is throwing error in oracle.

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Can any one please tell me how to create a procedure for this query "Select * from <table_name>"?
I have tried in oracal 10g its throws the error."PLS-00428: an INTO clause is expected in this SELECT statement".
In sql server we can go and directly put the select statement in procedure. but i dont know why it is throwing error in oracle.
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In Oracle you have to specify where to put the results of the query, nothing is provided by default.
set serveroutput on;
declare
  type my_type is table of emp%rowtype;
  my_emp my_type;
begin
  select * bulk collect into my_emp from emp;
  for i in my_emp.first..my_emp.last
  loop
    dbms_output.put_line(my_emp(i).empno);
  end loop;
end;
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7934You can test this example in the SCOTT schema and then put the code into a procedure if you want.
See 5 Using PL/SQL Collections and Records in the PL/SQL Language doc for details and more examples.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28370/collections.htm