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To return multiple records we need a REF CURSOR type variable to assign each record. The following is a script which return a REF CURSOR  as OUT parameter. --OracleStroredProc.sql CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE Types AS   TYPE cursor_type IS REF CURSOR; END Types; / ------- CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE getEmployeeInfo(p_recordset1 OUT  Types.cursor_type) AS BEGIN     OPEN p_recordset1 FOR     SELECT empNumber, empName, phone, address FROM Employees;     END; / We can run the above script in SQLPLUS as below. SQL> START OracleStroredProc.sql So procedure will be created by now. To call the procedure we have to create a variable of type REFCURSOR and pass it as a parameter to procedure call. Then we can print the variable to see the result. SQL> var a REFCURSOR; SQL> call getEmployeeInfo(:a); Call completed. SQL> print :a;

When you execute a PL/SQL script through sqlplus, if it returns a number at each line you press enter for a new line, it is beacuse you have forgot to include '/' end of the script file for execute. ex: SQL> OracleScript.sql        > 34        > 35 So at this situation just enter '/'. Script will execute. SQL> OracleScript.sql        > 34 / If you don't want to manually enter '/' here, place a '/' end of the script file. The script in here has a '/' end of the file which tells to execute it.

Oracle accepts date in the default format of YYYY-MON-DD . Here month is accepted as three characters of month name. Ex: January-JAN, February: FEB, etc Now before executing a bulk records to a table with a required date format such as YYYY-MM-DD , we can alter the session to accept date in that format from the following query. SQL> alter session set NLS_DATE_FORMAT='YYYY-MM-DD'; Now we can insert records with date represented in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Here we have to drop the user who is the owner of the schema objects with CASCADE option which will result in droping user with the all objects created by that user. SQL> Drop user username CASCADE;

This script will run a query to count the number of users with a specified user name and if the count!=0 then drop user query is executed. DECLARE     u_count number;     user_name VARCHAR2 (50);     BEGIN         u_count :=0;         user_name :='datauser';                     SELECT COUNT (1) INTO u_count FROM dba_users WHERE username = UPPER (user_name);              IF u_count != 0              THEN                  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE ('DROP USER '||user_name||' CASCADE');               END IF;               u_count := 0...