Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2005 14:46:15 -0800, googledude_at_hotmail.com wrote:
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>>Is it possible to pass Oracle associative arrays as PL/SQL parameters ?
>>I have basically gone through a bunch of articles on Oracle's site,
>>google, search engine. I have yet to find any decent examples of using
>>associative arrays as parameters.
>>
>>I am shocked/surprised that a company of the size of oracle has such
>>poor search tools on their web site with tons of irrelevant
>>information. I also tried to look through the O'Reilly books on PL/SQL
>>(3rd edition). The book has no contextual coverage on my problem (it is
>>loaded with elementary type information and examples). As you can tell,
>>I am frustrated and can't find any in-depth coverage on this issue.
>>
>>1. Can I use associative arrays (specifically the ones indexed by
>>varchar2) as parameters between various pl/sql functions/procedures ?
>>
>>2. What, if any, corresponding data structures and constructs can be
>>used on the java side to map to associative arrays (NO, i am not
>>interested in using varrays and/or nested tables).
>>
>>3. Anyone care to share any examples that use these features ?
>>
>>Thanks humbly for your help in advance!
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> 1 Anything with a type definition can be passed within pl/sql
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> 2 that I don't know.
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> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
PL/SQL associative arrays are relatively new, only since version 9.2,
which might be why examples are not abundant.
Not a Java programmer, but java.util.Hashtable class ought to get you
started on question 2.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Hashtable.html
-Mark Bole
Received on Thu Mar 03 2005 - 18:47:41 CST
