Question

I am trying to create a procedure that will list out all contents of a table but oracle tells me that the procedure has compilation errors. I am running on SQL plus. Any ideas?

CREATE OR REPLACE procedure payrollproc
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM payroll;
END;

Answer 1

CREATE OR REPLACE procedure payrollproc as
BEGIN
   for c_rec in ( SELECT * FROM payroll)
   Loop
       dbms_output.put_line(c_rec.col1 || '  ' || c_rec.col2 || ' ' || ......);
   End loop;
END;
/

But, I would suggest just run the select statement, a stored proc is too much work for such a basic function.