Re: creating/using type dynamically

On 3 Mar 2006 12:19:50 -0800, "hitchhikar" <reachsonu_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi frnds,
>I am caught up in a very crazy yet obvious situation using pl/sql.
>I wil try to explain the issue here in hope of gettin some
>pointers/help
>
>I want to create a type based on the string which is my input parameter
>and then use that type.
>For eg,
>
>BEGIN
>....
><some code>
>....
>EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
>'CREATE TYPE myType AS TABLE OF '|| tblname ||'%ROWTYPE INDEX BY
>BINARY_INTEGER;';
>mytyp_var myType;
>....
><code>
>END;
>
>
>Now this wil create tht myType at runtime but the problem is compiling
>this piece of code as myType has nt been declared at the time of use.
>Is there a workarnd for this??where i can create and use on
>runtime...dynamically
>
>TIA
>

If you only gonna use the type in the code that follows the type specification, you don't need to create a TYPE object in the database. Just declare a type in the PL/SQL-code:

BEGIN
....
<some code>
....
TYPE myType AS TABLE OF '|| tblname ||'%ROWTYPE INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;';
mytyp_var myType;
....
<code>
END; Jaap. Received on Fri Mar 03 2006 - 16:32:37 CST