Is there an Oracle equivalent to SQL Server's OUTPUT INSERTED.*?

Question

In SQL Server, you can do things like this:

INSERT INTO some_table (...) OUTPUT INSERTED.*
VALUES (...)

So that you can insert arbitrary se

Answer 1

The RETURNING clause supports the BULK COLLECT INTO synthax. Consider (10g):

SQL> CREATE TABLE t (ID NUMBER);

Table created
SQL> INSERT INTO t (SELECT ROWNUM FROM dual CONNECT BY LEVEL <= 5);

5 rows inserted
SQL> DECLARE
  2     TYPE tab_rowid IS TABLE OF ROWID;
  3     l_r tab_rowid;
  4  BEGIN
  5     UPDATE t SET ID = ID * 2
  6      RETURNING ROWID BULK COLLECT INTO l_r;
  7     FOR i IN 1 .. l_r.count LOOP
  8        dbms_output.put_line(l_r(i));
  9     END LOOP;
 10  END;
 11  /

AADcriAALAAAAdgAAA
AADcriAALAAAAdgAAB
AADcriAALAAAAdgAAC
AADcriAALAAAAdgAAD
AADcriAALAAAAdgAAE

It works with multi-row UPDATE and DELETE with my version (10.2.0.3.0) but NOT with INSERT:

SQL> DECLARE
  2     TYPE tab_rowid IS TABLE OF ROWID;
  3     l_r tab_rowid;
  4  BEGIN
  5     INSERT INTO t (SELECT ROWNUM FROM dual CONNECT BY LEVEL <= 5)
  6      RETURNING ROWID BULK COLLECT INTO l_r;
  7     FOR i IN 1 .. l_r.count LOOP
  8        dbms_output.put_line(l_r(i));
  9     END LOOP;
 10  END;
 11  /

ORA-06550: line 7, column 5:
PL/SQL: ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended

Maybe you have a more recent version (11g?) and the BULK COLLECT INTO is supported for multi-row INSERTs ?