Some questions about object definition in Oracle 8 DBMS ...

From: Claudio d'Anzeo <danzeo_at_mailer2.cefriel.it>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:20:58 +0200
Message-ID: <3561792A.7A4F79BF@mailer2.cefriel.it>

Hi all,

i'm an italian master student in Information Technology and i'm working on Oracle 8:
i'm modeling with Unified Modeling Language (UML) a new object-relational database
which represents a generic telecommunication network.

I have three questions about a new UDT definition:

could i create a new OBJECT TYPE with an attribute VARRAY of REF?
an attribute REF could point to a generic undefined object (like NULL) and could be 'casted' after?
what's the scope of a new object defined as component of another object?

Thanks in advance,
Claudio.

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