Conditionally define a Cursor

Question

I have a Procedure in Oracle that takes a varchar2 paramater. Based on the value of that parameter, I need to define a cursor. The cursor will operate on diff

Answer 1

you will need a REF CURSOR and open it conditionaly, for example:

SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE GET_RECORDS(v_action IN VARCHAR2) IS
  2     v_thing     VARCHAR2(10);
  3     get_records SYS_REFCURSOR;
  4  BEGIN
  5     IF (v_action = 'DO THIS') THEN
  6        OPEN get_records FOR
  7           SELECT 1 FROM dual;
  8     ELSE
  9        OPEN get_records FOR
 10           SELECT 2 FROM dual;
 11     END IF;
 12  
 13     LOOP
 14        FETCH get_records INTO v_thing;
 15        EXIT WHEN get_records%NOTFOUND;
 16        /* do things */
 17        dbms_output.put_line(v_thing);
 18     END LOOP;
 19     CLOSE get_records;
 20  END;
 21  /

Procedure created

SQL> exec get_records ('DO THIS');
1

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed

SQL> exec get_records ('DO THAT');
2

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed