Oracle will do the same to MySQL as IBM did to Lotus, as Microsoft did to Foxpro, etc. That is, let it die, or worse -- remember that MS...

What's wrong with declaring a cursor?

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set ANSI_NULLS ON

set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

go

ALTER procedure [dbo].[spTableStats] as

/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This code, for the current database, lists info about each of its tables:

name, row count, column count,...