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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs
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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs

by Arup Nanda, Steven Feuerstein
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
454 pages
14h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Cursor Parameters

As I mentioned earlier in this chapter, you can further promote cursor reuse in PL/SQL by parameterizing your cursors. Here’s my simple order_date procedure with a parameterized cursor:

    DECLARE
      CURSOR curs_get_od ( cp_on NUMBER ) IS
       SELECT order_date
         FROM orders
        WHERE order_number = cp_on;
       v_date DATE;
     BEGIN
       OPEN curs_get_od(100);
      FETCH curs_get_od INTO v_date;
      CLOSE curs_get_od;
    END;

If later on in the program I wanted to get order 200, 300, and 500, I could simply reopen the cursor. Doing so promotes cursor reuse within the PL/SQL program itself as well as in the shared pool.

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