Oracle/PLSQL: CURSOR FOR Loop

Oracle/PLSQL: CURSOR FOR Loop

The syntax for the CURSOR FOR Loop is:

FOR record_index in cursor_name
LOOP
{.statements.}
END LOOP;

You would use a CURSOR FOR Loop when you want to fetch and process every record in a cursor. The CURSOR FOR Loop will terminate when all of the records in the cursor have been fetched.

译：当你每次想通过 cursor 来对每条记录进行取及操作时，就可以使用 CURSOR FOR Loop 。当 cursor 中所有的记录都取后， CURSOR FOR Loop 就会终止。

Here is an example of a function that uses a CURSOR FOR Loop:

CREATE OR REPLACE Function TotalIncome
( name_in IN varchar2 )
RETURN varchar2
IS
total_val number(6);

cursor c1 is
select monthly_income
from employees
where name = name_in;

BEGIN

total_val := 0;

FOR employee_rec in c1
LOOP
total_val := total_val + employee_rec.monthly_income;
END LOOP;

RETURN total_val;

END;

In this example, we've created a cursor called c1. The CURSOR FOR Loop will terminate after all records have been fetched from the cursor c1.

译：在这个示例中，我们建立了一个名为c1的cursor。当所有c1中的记录都取后， CURSOR FOR Loop 就会终止。