What is the difference between “AS” and “IS” in an Oracle stored procedure?

Question

I see Oracle procedures sometimes written with \"AS\", and sometimes with \"IS\" keyword.

CREATE OR REPLACE Procedure TESTUSER.KILLINSTANCE (INSTANCEID inte         


        

Answer 1

One minor difference...

They are synonyms for packages and procedures, but not for cursors:

This works...

cursor test_cursor
is
select * from emp;

... but this doesn't:

cursor test_cursor
as
select * from emp;