Oracle - Use FETCH Statement in a Loop in Oracle

If you have a cursor opened ready to use, you can also use the FETCH statement in a loop to retrieve data from the cursor more efficiently. But you need to remember to use an EXIT statement break the loop when the cursor pointer reaches the end. The script below gives you a good example:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE FYI_CENTER AS
  CURSOR emp_cur IS SELECT * FROM employees
    WHERE manager_id = 101;
  emp_rec employees%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
  OPEN emp_cur;
  LOOP
    FETCH emp_cur INTO emp_rec;
    EXIT WHEN emp_cur%NOTFOUND;
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Name = ' || 
      emp_rec.first_name || ' ' || emp_rec.last_name); 
  END LOOP; 
  CLOSE emp_cur;
END;
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