Can Oracle Ref Cursors only be used with Procedures and Functions, or can they also be used with PL/SQL issued via an ODP.NET OracleCommand object (contained as a string in the CommandText property)?
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Can Oracle Ref Cursors only be used with Procedures and Functions, or can they also be used with PL/SQL issued via an ODP.NET OracleCommand object (contained as a string in the CommandText property)?
It depends on what you are trying to accomplish.
You can certainly execute an anonymous PL/SQL block from a .Net or a Java application that internally makes use of a
REF CURSOR. Since anonymous PL/SQL blocks do not accept or return parameters, however, you cannot return aREF CURSORthat you open in an anonymous PL/SQL block to the calling application.From an application architecture standpoint, I would strongly advocate that if you need to do processing that requires PL/SQL, that processing ought to be incorporated into a named PL/SQL block (a procedure or a function) that is in a package and stored in the database. Having logic implemented in PL/SQL that is stored outside the database is generally a bad idea.