Question

I have created the following object in oracle 11g.

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE myObject as object(
fieldOne number,
fieldTwo number
);

And created a new table type of myObject;

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE myTable IS TABLE OF myObject;

I would now like to create a new instance of myTable and add several hard-coded rows to myTable on the SQL Plus command line then pass the object to myProcedure as a parameter.

I have tried the following;

declare newTable myTable;
begin
select myObject(50,5) bulk collect into newTable from dual;
select myObject(40,7) bulk collect into newTable from dual;
myProcedure(newTable);
commit;
end;

Which sort-of works although the second select into statement overwrites the first.

My question is; how can I add multiple rows to newTable?

Many Thanks in Advance 🙂

Answer 1

declare
    newTable myTable;
begin
    newTable := myTable();
    newTable.extend(2); -- The desired size of the collection

    -- Oracle collections begin at index 1, not 0
    newTable(1) := myObject(50, 5);
    newTable(2) := myObject(40, 7);

    myProcedure(newTable);
end;