Procedure - Help needed

Question

I would like to create a table (I don’t know the number of columns) whose values have to be picked from all the tables in the user_tables which are like ‘LINKED%’ .
There are around 600-700 tables in the DB whose name is like ‘LINKED%’
All these table have 5 common cols – IDENTIFIER,C_NAME,CODE,MEAN,VALIDATEX. In addition to this it has some few other extra cols which are not identical for all these tables. There are tables with only 5cols and also there are tables with 20cols(which includes this 5 common column )(other tables with variable cols but not less than 5common columns)
I would like create a procedure where I need to create a table in the runtime and populate this new table with values from all the 700 tables. The cols name of the new table will be known only during runtime.
Kindly help me in this..
Can I have some ideas how to do this in other ways…
Thanks a lot

Answer 1

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spool sa_test.sql
declare
v_table_name VARCHAR2(50);
v_sql_stmt VARCHAR2(2000);
v_counter NUMBER;
CURSOR c1 IS
SELECT table_name
FROM user_tables
     WHERE table_name like 'CODED%'
ORDER BY table_name;
BEGIN
OPEN c1;
LOOP
FETCH c1 INTO v_table_name;
EXIT WHEN c1%NOTFOUND;
v_counter := 1;
IF v_counter = 1 THEN
v_sql_stmt := 'SELECT * from ' || v_table_name ||';';
ELSE
v_sql_stmt := v_table_name ;
END IF;
v_counter := v_counter + 1;
dbms_output.put_line (v_sql_stmt);
v_sql_stmt := null;
v_counter := 1;
END LOOP;
CLOSE c1;
END;
spool off
@sa_test.sql
This is sql script I'm using for retriving the values from all the tables .But I'm in need to create a table in a procedure, so that I can integrate the procedure in the Business Objects reports.