That won't help, as the cursor would still be held open in the pl/sql cursor cache - despite the explicit close.
It's also more efficient to use the implicit cursor in pl/sql for a single row fetch in the user's version of Oracle. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:39 PM > What tool are you using? HAve you considered putting select from the > sequence in an explicit cursor, open it, fetch it and close it again? > What Have in mind is something like this: > > declare > cursor csr is > select sai.nextval from dual; > num integer :=0; > ind integer :=10; > begin > while (ind>=0) loop > open csr; > fetch csr into num; > close csr; > dbms_output.put_line('Sai is:'||num); > ind:=ind-1; > end loop; > end; > / > > > Here is the output: > > QL> / > Sai is:13 > Sai is:14 > Sai is:15 > Sai is:16 > Sai is:17 > Sai is:18 > Sai is:19 > Sai is:20 > Sai is:21 > Sai is:22 > Sai is:23 > > PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
