Re: Updating PLSQL Table

You can do UPDATE (SELECT) .....

Although there are some limitations.

Cheers

Stefan

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Deepak Sharma <sharmakdeep_oracle_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> If I have a PLSQL "my_array" table defined as below:
>
> create or replace type my_rec as object (
> emp_id number,
> emp_name varchar2
> )
> /
>
> create or replace type my_array as table of my_rec
> /
>
> I can select from it w/o problem, even using a WHERE clause :
>
> my_list my_array;
>
> FOR c1 IN (
> SELECT emp_name
> FROM TABLE( CAST( my_list AS my_array))
> WHERE emp_id = 999
> )
> LOOP
> DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( c1.emp_name );
> END LOOP;
>
>
> But, is there a way to UPDATE a particular row of that array (just as a
> Table) ?
>
> Say, I want to update and set emp_name = UPPER(emp_name), for this
> entire array, how will I do it w/o having to loop across each element?
> And, #2,, how can I update just specific row(s), say, I want to update
> emp_name = 'UPPER(emp_name), where emp_id = 123, only.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Deepak
>
>
>
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