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select statement in collections [message #403251] Thu, 14 May 2009 07:57 Go to next message
ORAGENASHOK
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Registered: June 2006
Location: Chennai
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Hi,

I have a below pl/sql block which creates collection of record in my procedure not in database.

can i select with some conditions in where clause on that collections
can i insert/update on that collections.

In that Begin End; block i want to do the above process

can i if so explain with some examples for the above.

Declare

  cursor c1 is select id,name,age,sex from emp;
  
  Type typ_emp is table of c1%rowtype;
  typemp typ_emp;

Begin

 ...

End;



Re: select statement in collections [message #403279 is a reply to message #403251] Thu, 14 May 2009 10:19 Go to previous message
Kevin Meade
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Registered: December 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
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No

If you want to issue select statements that query on collections, the collection type must be a database type and you must use the CASTS / MULTISET / TABLE operators in the right comibinations.

In some situations (pipelined functions for example), the type not need be defined beforehand in the database but only in a package specification. However, in reality the database defines "placeholder" types quietly behind the scenese anyway so there is still a type defined in the database, you simply cannot reference it directly.

You type however is neither. It is defined on a cursor and this is not a "nested table" kind of collection so you are stuck. You cannot construct a query that makes use of the variable based on the cursor type.

This is my best knowledge. Of courase I have been wrong before. Maybe someone smarter than me can give an example and prove me wrong. However, I have never seen it, do not see it in documentation, and have never done it.

Good luck, Kevin
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