How to get result/data from procedure from SQL command line - sql

Question

looking for what causing to error message below:
[Error] Execution (4: 5): ORA-06550: line 4, column 5: PLS-00306:
wrong number or types of arguments in call to 'ALLOC_DAY_GRAPH_KTL'
ORA-06550: line 4, column 39: PLS-00363: expression '01-Oct-2012'
cannot be used as an assignment target ORA-06550: line 4, column 5:
PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to
'ALLOC_DAY_GRAPH_KTL' ORA-06550: line 4, column 5: PL/SQL: Statement
ignored
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If this is a package existing in a db, you could write a simple pl sql procedure block which calls the required procedure in the package and save it a s a sql script. It can then be called from the sqlplus commandline using #filename.sql

Answer 2

This could be a simple way:
setup:
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE reports AS
2 TYPE rep_type IS REF CURSOR;
3 END reports;
4 /
Package created.
SQL>
SQL> create or replace procedure testCursor(pIn in number, pCursOut in OUT reports.rep_type) is
2 begin
3 open pCursOut for
4 select 1 as one,
5 'something' as text,
6 pIn as parameter
7 from dual;
8 end;
9 /
Procedure created.
call:
SQL> variable vCur refCursor
SQL> exec testCursor(999, :vCur);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> print :vCur
ONE TEXT PARAMETER
---------- --------- ----------
1 something 999
SQL>
If you are not in SQLPlus, you may need a plSQL block:
declare
vCur reports.rep_type;
begin
testCursor(999, vCur);
/* code to use the cursor */
end;
/
In this case you need to write some code to do whatever you need with the cursor returned by the procedure.