Can anyone explain the practical use of strong ref cursor in oracle?

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i have a confusion the scenario where we should use the strong ref cursor and weak ref cursor.i can not understand what is the benefit of return type in strong cursor.can anyone help me in understanding the concept?

Posted 7-Jul-14 3:59am

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Jörgen Andersson · Answer 1 · 2014-07-08T02:20:00

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For the same reason you use strong typing in any programming language.
To minimize bugs caused by not having the type you thought you had.

The question is rather why you should use weakly typed refcursors ever.
And the only example I can think about is dynamic queries.

Posted 8-Jul-14 2:20am

Jörgen Andersson