Does Oracle have an equivalent of SQL Server's table variables?

Question

In SQL Server, you can declare a table variable (DECLARE @table TABLE), which is produced while the script is run and then removed from memory.

Does Ora

Answer 1

Yes it does have a type that can hold the result set of a query (if I can guess what TABLE does). From ask Tom: your procedure may look like this:

procedure p( p_state in varchar2, p_cursor in out ref_cursor_type )
is
begin
    open p_cursor for select * from table where state = P_STATE;
end;

where p_cursor is like a table type. As has been already answered there are plenty of options for storing result sets in Oracle. Generally Oracle PL/SQL is far more powerful than sqlserver scripts.