Re: VARRAY of ROWID

Thanks! Is there any way to do the conversion from rowid to varchar2(18) or vice versa?

Honglin

Thomas Kyte wrote:

> A copy of this was sent to Honglin Su <hosu_at_cs.umbc.edu>
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> On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 16:57:49 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi, there,
> >
> >Is there any way to create an VARRAY of ROWID?
> >
> >e.g.
> >
> >create type as varray(10) of rowid;
> >
> >but it shows the compilation error. I want an array to contain several
> >rowid information. How can I do it?
> >
> >Thank you!
> >
> >Honglin
>
> varray's/nested tables (object types actually) do not support rowids as a direct
> datatype.
>
> rowids are type compatible with varchar2(18) -- you would use that type.
>
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Received on Sat Sep 04 1999 - 13:13:59 CDT