How to get record count using reference cursor in

Question

I want to know how we can get record count using reference cursor in oracle10g.

Answer 1

After you fetched the rows you can use cursorname%rowcount to get the amount of records you fetched.

Answer 2

You cannot.

You can only count the rows while you fetch them from the cursor.

A cursor is like a stream, and Oracle does not know how much rows are in there until it has read them all (which happens as you fetch rows).