unfortunately, stuck in 8.0.5. i did see that it could be done with 8i, but we're not upgrading anytime soon.

found a couple of workarounds -- don't care for them, but they'll do for now. thanks for your help.


>If you have 8i there is a new cursor syntax called OPEN FOR.
>It allows you to make dynamic SQL in a cursor.
>
>You could code it like:
>
>TYPE generic_rc IS REF CURSOR; (or CURSOR)
>cv generic_rc;
>BEGIN
>OPEN cv FOR
>'SELECT ' || column_list ||
>' FROM ' || table_list ||
>' WHERE '|| where_clause;
>
>So you could pass in your table name, columns, where to a procedure
>
>This sounds like what you are looking for.
>
>I don't think this was possible on older releases. i.e. problem was you cannout use DBMS_SQL to create a cursor (but there are probably other things you can do depending on what you want the cursor for...) which is why this feature has been added.