I think using 'the' on the collection would be my second choice after ref cursor. Why does your client doesn't want to use ref cursor? I can't think of anything else, as returning arbitrary data structure would be a problem in select.
Raj ______________________________________________________ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art! -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Raj ! Actually I had similar problems some days back where i was supposed to treturn recordset(more than one) . At that time i created object and collection of object and then using cast operator and "the" operator i was able to return recodset from function . I could have used that function in sql statement also; Actually i am Delphi programmar and our client does not want to use like that. Moreover they don't want to use ref cursor or any PL sql table i hope u will sugeest some thing on it. thanx in advance
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