How to return OUT variable value from Oracle stored procedure to .NET (C#) code?

The statement

  SET id = LAST_INSERT_ID();

is not PL/SQL statement. Possibly it comes from other DB procedural language.

in Oracle you can use another solution.

1. define a sequence
2. use nextval pseudocolumn to insert the id:

CREATE PROCEDURE insert_record (OUT id INT, p_value VARCHAR(150))
BEGIN
  id := seqience_name.nextval;
  INSERT INTO data (id, value)
              VALUES (id, p_value);
END;

Bad syntax:

CREATE PROCEDURE insert_record     ( id OUT INT,       p_value VARCHAR(150))
BEGIN
      id := sequence_name.nextval;
      INSERT INTO data (id, value)
                   VALUES (id, p_value);
END;
/

Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly enough. The code I've posted is MySQL code. I need to do the same in Oracle. I know how to create the procedure in Oracle but what I'd really like to know is how to execute the procedure so it returns a dataset containing just 1 record (newly created ID - basically any variable which is used within the procedure).

Anybody?

You have to know how this ID is produced.
I most cases Oracle uses sequences (integer number generators, created
ad hoc by the programmers).

Look at this:

CREATE PROCEDURE insert_record     ( id OUT INT,       p_value VARCHAR(150))
BEGIN
      id := sequence_name.nextval;        INSERT INTO data (id, value)
                   VALUES (id, p_value);
END;
/


id := sequence_name.nextval; retrieves the next number from the sequence.
Additionally it is stored in the OUT parameter what possibly is a error.
So I will fix the code:


CREATE PROCEDURE insert_record     ( id OUT INT,       p_value VARCHAR(150))
   v_id   INTEGER;
BEGIN
      v_id := sequence_name.nextval;        
     INSERT INTO data (id, value)
                   VALUES (id, p_value);
     id := v_id;
END;
/

Now you have to call the procedure and to get the out value.
Of course you have to provide the programatical tool
to produce the ids (I suggest Oracle sequence).
Look in the net and find example how to create it.

Please disregard the code I've provided in previous posts. I'm just looking for a way how to export OUTPUT variable of the procedure to a dataset. I know how sequences and all this staff work.

So I'm looking for a way how to do equivalent of this code (MySQL) in Oracle:

set @id=0; call proc(@id); select @id;

where proc is a stored procedure which has just 1 output parameter. What proc does doesn't have anything to do with my problem.

Use the common way.

If you decide to use PL/SQL (there are also C, Java, VB interfaces), then
using anonymous block:

DECLARE
      v_id     NUMBER;
      v_value := VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
      v_valie := 'Some value';
      insert_record  ( v_id,       p_value)
      dbms_output.put_line (v_id);
END;
/
     

This one returns null when executed using ExecuteScalar() (doesn't return any record when executed by ExecuteReader()).

CREATE PROCEDURE insert_record     ( id OUT INT,       p_value VARCHAR(150))
   v_id   INTEGER;
BEGIN
      v_id := sequence_name.nextval;        
     INSERT INTO data (id, value)
                   VALUES (v_id, p_value);
     id := v_id;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
    dbms_output.put_line(substr(sqlerrm,1,254));
    id := -111;
END;
/


First check it with PL/SQL:

set serveroutput on

DECLARE
      v_id     NUMBER;
      v_value := VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
      v_valie := 'Some value';
      insert_record  ( v_id,       p_value)
      dbms_output.put_line (v_id);
END;
/

Unfortunatelly dbms_output.put_line() writes to kind of standard output but not to the output dataset.

This is only to check if it really returns the value
and if there are exceptions that prevent the
execution.
After you make sure that the value is really returned
by the stored procedure you con move the focus
of your efforts to the interface with the MS stuff.

I know that the correct value is returned as output variable. What I'd like to do is return this value as output dataset.

Current workaround which I use is:
- store this value to a package variable
- select this value

This solution is almost OK however I need to execute the SQL command twice. Does anybody know how to do this at once?

These worarounds will not hel you because package variables are created for every session and
so every session (assuming you are not using it in one session) will create its own copy of the variable.
But possibly I am wrong and you work in one session. In this case it is possible to use associative arrays (former PL/SQL tables or normally speaking an array).
So to use multisession acces to the resul one possible solution is to store the values in a regulat table.

In this case I execute both commands within one session (at least I hope that ODP doesn't change the session while pointer to instance of SqlCommand exists and all commands executed while SqlCommand instance exists are sent within one session). So the current problem is how to execute these 2 commands at once. Anybody?

Take experiment that will show the truth.

OK, will inform. Anyway I'd be very happy if somebody came up with a solution which wouldn't require executing 2 queries.

Using PL/SQL table that can store unlimited entries and can be returned as record set in Oracle environmet.

Using PL/SQL table that can store unlimited entries and can be returned as record set in Oracle environmet.

OK, to close this - there are several solutions to this problem but none of them can be executed using 1 query. I accept schwertner's solution but I've used mine.