RE: Inserting a Record into a Table

From: Kevin Lange <kgel_at_ppoone.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:56:11 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0035F785.20010803080127@fatcity.com>

Thanks a lot. This is what I need ..... but unfortunately we are on 8.0.5. But this does tell me that I can not do it the way I want.

I appreciate the confirmation.

Kevin

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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:53 AM
To: 'ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com'; 'kgel_at_ppoone.com'

If you are (or will be) using 9i,

straight from the manual ....

<manual>
Inserting Records into the Database
A new PL/SQL-only extension of the INSERT statement lets you insert records into database rows using a single variable of type RECORD or %ROWTYPE instead of a list of fields. That makes your code more readable and maintainable. The record type cannot be nested. Also, the number of fields in the record must equal the number of columns listed in the INTO clause, and corresponding fields and columns must have compatible datatypes. An example follows:

DECLARE
TYPE EmpRec IS RECORD (

      emp_id    NUMBER(4),
      job_title VARCHAR2(9),
      salary    NUMBER(7,2));

emp_info EmpRec;
BEGIN

   emp_info.emp_id := 7975;
   emp_info.job_title := 'CLERK';
   emp_info.salary := 1500;

INSERT INTO emp (empno, job, sal) VALUES (emp_info); END; In the example below, you use a %ROWTYPE record. A column list is not needed because the record contains a field for each column in the database table.

DECLARE
dept_info dept%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN

   dept_info.dept_num := 70;
   dept_info.dept_name := 'PERSONNEL';
   dept_info.location := 'DALLAS';

INSERT INTO dept VALUES (dept_info);
END; </manual>

HTH
Raj

Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com
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