creating parameterized views in oracle11g

Question

I have a big query with nesting and left join and Ineed to create a view out of it so as not to run it from the application. The issue is I need the date range and some othe

Answer 1

I have just made a workaround for this annoying Oracle disadvantage. Like this

create or replace package pkg_utl
as
  type test_record is record (field1 number, field2 number, ret_prm_date date);
  type test_table is table of test_record;
  function get_test_table(prm_date date) return test_table pipelined;
end;
/

create or replace package body pkg_utl
as
  function get_test_table(prm_date date) return test_table pipelined
  is
  begin
    for item in (
      select 1, 2, prm_date
      from dual
    ) loop
      pipe row (item);
    end loop;
    return;
  end get_test_table;
end;
/

it still requires a package, but at least i can use it in more convinient way:

select *
from table(pkg_utl.get_test_table(sysdate))

i am not sure about performance...