Select with out into in plsql

Question

hi all
i want to write a select statment in a procedure with out into statement ..
is it possilbe if yes how can i do this.
if its not possible then if we have to Return a number of rows from procedure then how can i do this..
thanks in advance

Answer 1

User1728 wrote:
actual i want to return a datatable type data from procedureWhat does "datatable type" mean? "Datatable" is not a type in PL/SQL, so I assume that it has some meaning in your client programming language. What Oracle data type are you trying to return?
My guess would be that you are trying to return a REF CURSOR so that you want something like
SQL> create procedure return_rc( p_rc OUT sys_refcursor )
  2  as
  3  begin
  4    open p_rc for select * from emp;
  5  end;
  6  /
Procedure created.
SQL> variable rc ref cursor;
Usage: VAR[IABLE] [ <variable> [ NUMBER | CHAR | CHAR (n [CHAR|BYTE]) |
                    VARCHAR2 (n [CHAR|BYTE]) | NCHAR | NCHAR (n) |
                    NVARCHAR2 (n) | CLOB | NCLOB | REFCURSOR |
                    BINARY_FLOAT | BINARY_DOUBLE ] ]
SQL> variable rc refcursor;
SQL> exec return_rc( :rc );
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> print rc
     EMPNO ENAME      JOB              MGR HIREDATE         SAL       COMM
    DEPTNO
      7369 SMITH      CLERK           7902 17-DEC-80        800
        20
      7499 ALLEN      SALESMAN        7698 20-FEB-81       1600        300
        30
      7521 WARD       SALESMAN        7698 22-FEB-81       1250        500
        30
     EMPNO ENAME      JOB              MGR HIREDATE         SAL       COMM
    DEPTNO
      7566 JONES      MANAGER         7839 02-APR-81       2975
        20
      7654 MARTIN     SALESMAN        7698 28-SEP-81       1250       1400
        30
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