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    Database Programming with PL/SQL

    5-2: Using Explicit Cursor Attributes


    Practice Activities
    Vocabulary
    Identify the vocabulary word for each definition below:

    Declares a record with the same fields as the cursor on which it


    is based
    A composite data type in PL/SQL, consisting of a number of
    fields each with their own name and data type

    Returns the status of the cursor

    An attribute that processes an exact number of rows or counts


    the number of rows fetched in a loop
    An attribute used to determine whether the most recent FETCH
    statement successfully returned a row

    Try It/Solve It
    1. In your own words, explain the advantage of using %ROWTYPE to declare a record structure
    based on a cursor declaration.

    2. Write a PL/SQL block to read through rows in the countries table for all countries in region 5
    (South America region). For each selected country, display the country_name,
    national_holiday_date, and national_holiday_name. Use a record structure to hold all the columns
    selected from the countries table.

    Hint: This exercise is similar to question 4G in the previous lesson. Use your solution as a starting
    point for this exercise.

    3. For this exercise, you use the employees table. Create a PL/SQL block that fetches and displays
    the six employees with the highest salary. For each of these employees, display the first name,
    last name, job id, and salary. Order your output so that the employee with the highest salary is
    displayed first. Use %ROWTYPE and the explicit cursor attribute %ROWCOUNT.

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    4. Look again at the block you created in question 3. What if you wanted to display 21 employees instead of
    6? There are only 20 rows in the employees table. What do you think would happen?

    5. In real life we would not know how many rows the table contained. Modify your block from question 3 so
    that it will exit from the loop when either 21 rows have been fetched and displayed, or when there are no
    more rows to fetch. Test the block again.

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