Cursor For Loop with dynamic SQL-Statement
Is there a way to perform a Cursor For Loop with an dynamic SQL-statement?
If I don't want to declare a record I can do something like this (only if I declared the cursor..):
For I in cuSelect Loop
dbms_output.put_line(I.NAME);
End Loop;
And I can open a cursor for a dynamic SQL-statement:
Open cuSelect For 'Select * From TAB_X';
Fetch ceSelect Into recSelect;
Close cuSelect;
But to do that I have to first declare the Record.
Now my problem is that I have to open the Cursor for a very big and complicated dynamic SQL-statement. The structure of the record is unknown. Is there a way to open a variable cursor and iterate through it with an "undeclared" record?
Solution 1:
I think you can do what you want with DBMS_SQL package.
You can also check these:
- Using Dynamic SQL
- COLUMN_VALUE Procedure
For example:
declare
TYPE curtype IS REF CURSOR;
src_cur curtype;
curid NUMBER;
namevar VARCHAR2(50);
numvar NUMBER;
datevar DATE;
desctab DBMS_SQL.DESC_TAB;
colcnt NUMBER;
dsql varchar2(1000) := 'select card_no from card_table where rownum = 1';
begin
OPEN src_cur FOR dsql;
-- Switch from native dynamic SQL to DBMS_SQL package.
curid := DBMS_SQL.TO_CURSOR_NUMBER(src_cur);
DBMS_SQL.DESCRIBE_COLUMNS(curid, colcnt, desctab);
-- Define columns.
FOR i IN 1 .. colcnt LOOP
IF desctab(i).col_type = 2 THEN
DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(curid, i, numvar);
ELSIF desctab(i).col_type = 12 THEN
DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(curid, i, datevar);
ELSE
DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(curid, i, namevar, 50);
END IF;
END LOOP;
-- Fetch rows with DBMS_SQL package.
WHILE DBMS_SQL.FETCH_ROWS(curid) > 0 LOOP
FOR i IN 1 .. colcnt LOOP
IF (desctab(i).col_type = 1) THEN
DBMS_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(curid, i, namevar);
dbms_output.put_line(namevar);
ELSIF (desctab(i).col_type = 2) THEN
DBMS_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(curid, i, numvar);
dbms_output.put_line(numvar);
ELSIF (desctab(i).col_type = 12) THEN
DBMS_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(curid, i, datevar);
dbms_output.put_line(datevar);
END IF;
END LOOP;
END LOOP;
DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(curid);
end;