Re: Passing queries from procedure call in a script ... possible?

Dereck L. Dietz wrote:
> Oracle 10.2.0.3.0
>
> Windows 2003 Server
>
> UPDATE_PROCEDURE will update the DATES_TABLE but could be updated from
> different sources.
>
> How do I make the UPDATE_PROCEDURE able to accept different data sets
> retrieved from different cursors when the UPDATE_PROCEDURE procedure is
> called from different SQL scripts.
>
> I'm not experienced with reference cursors so I'm not sure if what I'm
> trying to do can be done or not. Would it be reference cursors, cursor
> variables or what?
>
> This UPDATE_PROCEDURE will be a packaged procedure which could be called by
> different processes to update the same table. However, each process will
> have different tables which create the data set to use to update the
> DATES_TABLE.
>
> Currently this is all done in scripts and, for each process, there is a
> duplication of code for the update of the DATES_TABLE.
>
> Can a cursor be passed from a procedure call in a script and if so, is there
> any examples anywhere around?
>
> Thanks.

Post the full and complete version and the DDL that creates the procedure.

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