Using cursor to query from data dictionary

Question

Hi
I am having a weird problem.
In a procedure, I like to compress some tables
so I wrote a cursor like this:
CURSOR crs IS SELECT OWNER,TABLE_NAME FROM ALL_TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE '%ABC';then I'm opening the cursor in for loop and running
xSql := 'ALTER TABLE ' || X.OWNER || '.' || X.TABLE_NAME || ' MOVE COMPRESS';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE (xSql);Now strangely enough, my cursor is not fetching any record at all inside procedure!
But when I run the cursor select statement of its own in SqlPlus, it does fetch lots of record!
So, what's wrong??
Edited by: movilogo on Jun 30, 2010 9:25 AM

Answer 1

Full code
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE COMPRESS_ABC_TABLES IS
    -- to compress tables
    CURSOR crs IS SELECT OWNER,TABLE_NAME FROM ALL_TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE '%ABC';
    xSql VARCHAR2(1000);
BEGIN
    FOR X IN crs
    LOOP
            BEGIN
                xSql := 'ALTER TABLE ' || X.OWNER || '.' || X.TABLE_NAME || ' MOVE COMPRESS';
                DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(xSql);
                EXECUTE IMMEDIATE (xSql);
            EXCEPTION
                WHEN OTHERS THEN
                    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(SQLERRM);
            END;
    END LOOP;
END;Edited by: movilogo on Jun 30, 2010 9:53 AM