Bulk Collect Methods For Efficient Data Retrieval

Bulk Collect can be used with both SELECT INTO and FETCH statements in PL/SQL. Each of these methods has its specific use case for bulk fetching data from the database into PL/SQL collections.

  
  
  1. Bulk Collect with SELECT INTO

The SELECT INTO statement is used when you need to fetch all the data in one go into a collection. This method is efficient for bulk data retrieval when you know that the dataset is small or manageable in memory.
Syntax

SELECT column1, column2, ...
BULK COLLECT INTO collection_variable
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

    
    

    
    




Example
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