Answer Posted / ramdeep garg
A cursor is a SELECT statement that is defined within the
declaration section of your PLSQL code. We'll take a look
at three different syntaxes for cursors.
Cursor without parameters (simplest)
The basic syntax for a cursor without parameters is:
CURSOR cursor_name
IS
SELECT_statement;
For example, you could define a cursor called c1 as below.
CURSOR c1
IS
SELECT course_number
from courses_tbl
where course_name = name_in;
The result set of this cursor is all course_numbers whose
course_name matches the variable called name_in.
Below is a function that uses this cursor.
CREATE OR REPLACE Function FindCourse
( name_in IN varchar2 )
RETURN number
IS
cnumber number;
CURSOR c1
IS
SELECT course_number
from courses_tbl
where course_name = name_in;
BEGIN
open c1;
fetch c1 into cnumber;
if c1%notfound then
cnumber := 9999;
end if;
close c1;
RETURN cnumber;
END;
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