I am attempting to create a store procedure that contains a cursor. I would like to Dynamically create the cursor and I am having difficulty.

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create or replace procedure allocation_rewrite2(p_as_of_date IN DATE, p_gl_accnt_id IN NUMBER) is

<Define Variables>

CURSOR cur_gl_bucket
IS
SELECT <column name >
FROM ledger_stat
WHERE <statement>

BEGIN

Select <column name> from table;

OPEN Cursor cur_gl_bucket with retrieved column name.

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The <column name> is selected from a table based on the parameters passed into the procedure. I would then like to OPEN the cursor with the retrieved column name dynamically imbedded in the Select statment for the cursor.

I successfully use DBMS_SQL.PARSE and EXECUTE later in the procedure but have been unable to get it to work when I open the cursor. I guess the question is can this be done, and if so what is the syntax for doing this......

Regards
Patrick McCarthy
mailto: patrick_mccarthy@canmail.com

Looks like you are on Oracle?

create or replace procedure allocation_rewrite2(p_as_of_date IN DATE, p_gl_accnt_id IN NUMBER) is

<Define Variables>

TYPE refcur IS REF CURSOR;
cur_gl_bucket refcur;

v_column_name VARCHAR2(30);

BEGIN

Select <column name> INTO v_column_name from table;

OPEN cur_gl_bucket FOR 'SELECT '||v_column_name||' FROM ledger_stat WHERE <statement>';