This is a highly inefficient way of doing it. You can use the merge
statement and then there's no need for cursors, looping or (if you can do without) PL/SQL.
MERGE INTO studLoad l
USING ( SELECT studId, studName FROM student ) s
ON (l.studId = s.studId)
WHEN MATCHED THEN
UPDATE SET l.studName = s.studName
WHERE l.studName != s.studName
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT (l.studID, l.studName)
VALUES (s.studId, s.studName)
Make sure you commit
, once completed, in order to be able to see this in the database.
To actually answer your question I would do it something like as follows. This has the benefit of doing most of the work in SQL and only updating based on the rowid, a unique address in the table.
It declares a type, which you place the data within in bulk, 10,000 rows at a time. Then processes these rows individually.
However, as I say this will not be as efficient as merge
.
declare
cursor c_data is
select b.rowid as rid, a.studId, a.studName
from student a
left outer join studLoad b
on a.studId = b.studId
and a.studName <> b.studName
;
type t__data is table of c_data%rowtype index by binary_integer;
t_data t__data;
begin
open c_data;
loop
fetch c_data bulk collect into t_data limit 10000;
exit when t_data.count = 0;
for idx in t_data.first .. t_data.last loop
if t_data(idx).rid is null then
insert into studLoad (studId, studName)
values (t_data(idx).studId, t_data(idx).studName);
else
update studLoad
set studName = t_data(idx).studName
where rowid = t_data(idx).rid
;
end if;
end loop;
end loop;
close c_data;
end;
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