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 can even use the condition inside the implicit for loop. Without cursor declaration or SYS_REFCURSOR (I dislike them sorry) - I mean you can use your variables, here v_action, inside implicit cursor declaration:

BEGIN
    FOR this_cur IN (
       SELECT * FROM  
        WHERE v_action = 'DO THIS'
    ) LOOP
      <>
    END LOOP;
    FOR that_cur IN (
       SELECT * FROM  
        WHERE v_action <> 'DO THIS'
    ) LOOP
      <>
    END LOOP;
  END IF;
END;