Copy rows from a table to a new one using cursor in PL/SQL

Hi there,

can someone explain me how to use a cursor to retrieve all the rows in one table and then insert some of the records into another table? (PL/SQL) Or maybe tell me where I can find a good tutorial or information about how to do it?

Thanx a lot, Fausto

The real problem is the following:

I have a table SPECS with attributes (among others) ID, INP1, INP2, INP3, OUT1, OUT2, OUT3 what means that the number of INP/OUT is restricted to a max of 3.

In order to have as many INP/OUT as needed for each SPEC, I created a new table (SPECS_INFO) with attributes ID (foreign key from table SPECS) , SEQUENCE_NR, INPUT, OUTPUT where I want to copy the information from a row ID, INP1, INP2, INP3, OUT1, OUT2, OUT3 (at the SPECS table) to three rows of the new SPECS_INFO table:

For example:
ID INP1 INP2 INP3 OUT1 OUT2 OUT3
A1 CALL A CALL B CALL C ANSW A ANSW B ANSW C

TO

ID SEQUENCE_NR INPUT OUTPUT
A1 1 CALL A ANSW A
A1 2 CALL B ANSW B
A1 3 CALL C ANSW CTry something like this:

begin
for r in (select * from specs)
loop
insert into specs_info
values (r.id,1,r.inp1,r.out1);
insert into specs_info
values (r.id,2,r.inp2,r.out2);
insert into specs_info
values (r.id,3.r.inp3,r.out3);
end loop;
end;
/

;)|||Thanx a lot. It works fine :-)