I am trying to study up to be an Oracle Certified Professional. It is difficult with all the craziness at work these days. To tell the truth, I am also finding that just reading training materials is not enough. I am not learning that much. It might be time to attend some more in person training.On to the subject for today. That is cursors. You can use a FOR LOOP to make cursor use really easy. However if you do not, and make use of explicit cursors, just make sure you close your cursors when you are done with them.
There are two type of REF CURSORs. These are the strong and weak cursors. Strong cursors return a specific type. Weak cursors can be used with any query. Both REF CURSOR types can be passed to functions and procedures. You can think of the cursor as a pointer.
There are two type of REF CURSORs. These are the strong and weak cursors. Strong cursors return a specific type. Weak cursors can be used with any query. Both REF CURSOR types can be passed to functions and procedures. You can think of the cursor as a pointer.
Let me close by briefly mentioning subtypes. A subtype is a subset of an existing type with some constraints applied. It can be used any place the more general type is it based on can be used. Here is an example of a subtype:
SUBTYPE small_num_type IS NUMBER(4) NOT NULL;
