Bindende parameters voor Oracle Dynamic SQL

U kunt het pakket DBMS_SQL gebruiken. Dit biedt een alternatieve manier om dynamische SQL uit te voeren. Het is misschien wat omslachtiger om te gebruiken, maar het kan flexibeler zijn, vooral met variërende aantallen bindparameters.

Hier is hoe je het zou kunnen gebruiken (waarschuwing:ik heb dit niet getest):

FUNCTION player_search (
   pName        IN VARCHAR2,
   pHeight      IN NUMBER,
   pTeam        IN VARCHAR2
) RETURN SYS_REFCURSOR
IS 
  cursor_name   INTEGER;
  ignore        INTEGER;
  id_var        MyTable.ID%TYPE;
  name_var      MyTable.Name%TYPE;
  height_var    MyTable.Height%TYPE;
  team_var      MyTable.Team%TYPE;
BEGIN
  -- Put together SQLQuery here...

  -- Open the cursor and parse the query         
  cursor_name := DBMS_SQL.OPEN_CURSOR; 
  DBMS_SQL.PARSE(cursor_name, SQLQuery, DBMS_SQL.NATIVE); 

  -- Define the columns that the query returns.
  -- (The last number for columns 2 and 4 is the size of the
  -- VARCHAR2 columns.  Feel free to change them.)
  DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(cursor_name, 1, id_var); 
  DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(cursor_name, 2, name_var, 30); 
  DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(cursor_name, 3, height_var); 
  DBMS_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(cursor_name, 4, team_var, 30); 

  -- Add bind variables depending on whether they were added to
  -- the query.
  IF pName IS NOT NULL THEN
    DBMS_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(cursor_name, ':pName', pName);
  END IF;

  IF pHeight > 0 THEN
    DBMS_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(cursor_name, ':pHeight', pHeight);
  END IF;

  IF pTeam IS NOT NULL THEN
    DBMS_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(cursor_name, ':pTeam', pTeam);
  END IF;

  -- Run the query.
  -- (The return value of DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE for SELECT queries is undefined,
  -- so we must ignore it.)
  ignore := DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(cursor_name); 

  -- Convert the DBMS_SQL cursor into a PL/SQL REF CURSOR.
  RETURN DBMS_SQL.TO_REFCURSOR(cursor_name);

EXCEPTION 
  WHEN OTHERS THEN 
    -- Ensure that the cursor is closed.
    IF DBMS_SQL.IS_OPEN(cursor_name) THEN 
      DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(cursor_name); 
    END IF; 
    RAISE; 
END; 

(Opmerking:DBMS_SQL.TO_REFCURSOR is nieuw in Oracle 11g.)