Thanks everyone!
Regards
Denham
-----Original Message-----
From: Connor McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:59 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Which is beter a cursor or a for loop?
If you are after the n'th degree performance then the:
for x in (select ... )
will be minisculely faster (simply because its
slightly less code and plsql is interpreted). And
unless I have a particular need for the cursor
%attributes, or the cursor needs to be passed around I
prefer the sql directly in the for-loop. I don't have
to hunt up through the procedure/package to find the
cursor definition, and (subjectively) I find it easier
to read.
hth
connor
--- Tim Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Both use
cursors, but a FOR loop is more concise
> coding. Technically, they
> are exactly equivalent; the differences are just
> stylistic...
>
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> > I would suggest that the cursor is the best way to
> go.
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> > Sent: 24 February 2003 08:39
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> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was just asked by one of our developers which is
> beter to use:-
> > a cursor or a for loop?
> > I must admit I am not sure....
> >
> > Anyway the specific piece of code in discussion is
> similar to the
> > following....
> >
> > FOR X IN (SELECT X FROM TABLE_NAME
> > WHERE COL1 = 'Something'))
> > LOOP
> > Do a whole lot of stuff in
> database here......
> > LOOP END;
> >
> > I would guess that the cursor would follow similar
> execution criteria but
> > using
> > the cursor syntax.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA
> > regards
> > Denham Eva
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